These include archival materials, unpublished documents, published accounts, and oral histories. The most important of these include the Corinne True Papers, the Alfred E. Lunt Collection, the Windust Papers, and scores of regional histories written before 1944. Mr. Roger Dahl who also has an interest in the development of a Registry, has provided a good measure of assistance in the project. While the archival materials are found in a few restricted areas, unpublished documents come from a great variety of sources, both institutional and individual. All this will develeop in good time.
Oral histories constitute the fourth source of information.
The author has already begun a process of seeking out early believers, to secure not only oral histories, but also to direct specific questions related to a tentative Registry. While only a very few were able to provide a great deal of fresh information, virtually all of these believers provided some new data which, together with other such believers, will constitute a fairly complete Registry. When the Registry achieves a niveau of accuracy and reliability, the revised list will once again be sent to all of these believers for additional comments. Every historian has encountered the problem of the traditional position of women. The search for the identity of Mrs. John Thomas is universal.