This Index to Family Names is the third in a series of publications compiled by Maud Quigley from the collection of genealogical periodicals housed in the Genealogy Room of the Grand Rapids Public Library. The collection includes ninety quarterlies from thirty states. Some cover as many as thirty years of publication.
Some listings contain many persons with the same surname, while others contain fewer individuals.
There are more than seven thousand entries. We, the members of Western Michigan Genealogy Society, wish to express our appreciation to Maud Quigley for compiling and donating her works to the Society. In 1970 with a small notebook in hand, Maud Quigley began to index some of the periodicals in the genealogy room at the Grand Rapids Public Library. Her plan was to index a limited number of periodicals and place the notebook on the shelf for everyone to use. The project grew and grew.