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Central Finger Lakes Monthly Meeting Records
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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
In 1986, a group began to meet as Penn Yan/Geneva Quaker Worship Group in local homes. In 1987, Farmington-Scipio Regional Meeting approved the group's application to become a monthly meeting. The meeting was laid down by approval of the regional meeting at the Winter Gathering of January 2023.
Records of Central Finger Lakes Monthly Meeting, 1987-2023. Records include newsletters, business minutes and related reports from Ministry & Counsel and Treasurer, membership-related records, Ministry & Counsel Committee records, and some history materials and other miscellaneous records.
Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997. Additional deposit (2019) from Michael Wajda. Final deposit (2022) at laying down of meeting.
Deposits, 1997, 2019, 2022.
Organization
Subject
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Inventory prepared by: FHL Staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
- Use Restrictions
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Information on reproduction policies available in the library. Ministry and Counsel records restricted for 25 years from date of creation.
Collection Inventory
Includes requests for membership, requests and certificates for transfer, resignations, and traveling minutes and letters of introduction.
Physical Description2 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes often also include an agenda and the treasurer's report and budget and ministry and counsel reports. As a small meeting, many things (prison visitation, annual budget planning etc.) were discerned through the full business meeting, and membership-related records and clerk's correspondence are also present in the files.
Physical Description7 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Minutes often also include an agenda and the treasurer's report and budget and ministry and counsel reports. As a small meeting, many things (prison visitation, annual budget planning etc.) were discerned through the full business meeting, and membership-related records and clerk's correspondence are also present in the files.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
While this file is restricted alongside the rest of the series, duplicate and abridged reports from the committee to the Monthly Meeting can be found in the open Business Minutes.
Physical Description1 folder
3 folders
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
5 .rtf files
1 .rtf file
A minute approved by Farmington Scipio Regional Meeting Winter Gathering (January 21, 2023) laying down Central Finger Lakes Meeting.
Some gaps, particularly post 2006.
Physical Description4 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United