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A MOMENT IN TIME
A History of the Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook
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The History of the Yearbook
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Action taken by the General Conference session, December 18, 1882 and printed in the Advent Review
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1883 Yearbook Title Page
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[Minutes of the General Conference Committee, Spring Session, March 6, 1895, p 4]
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[Minutes of the General Conference Committee, Spring Session, March 6, 1895, p 5]
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H E Rogers in his early 20s, as GC stenographer.
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1941 Yearbook – last one with H E Rogers listed as the Statistical Secretary of the General Conference
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F Donald Yost, 1st General Conference Archivist
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The 2017 Yearbook is the 124th edition
How has It Changed Over the Years?
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The Seventh-day Adventist 1882 statistics in the1883 Yearbook
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Through 1954 the YB was approximately 5x7½ inches with slight variations. The overall size of the Yearbook changed in 1955 to the 6x9 inches still used today
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The 2011 Yearbook weighed 3 lbs, 4.4 oz
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In comparison the 2016 Yearbook weighed1 lb, 11.7 oz with the CD included!
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Engravings – this one from the 1888 Yearbook – labeled the Central SDA Publishing House, Battle Creek, Michigan
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Minutes of the 1889/1890 GC Committee in the 1891 Yearbook
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The 1907 Yearbook contained a report from 1906 listing significant Church events and activities
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Calendar of Special Days and Offerings 1989 Yearbook
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Appropriations for Mission Work – 1912 Yearbook
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Poems – this is one of the last ones –1941 Yearbook
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Necrologies – 1997 Yearbook
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“Miss” and “Mrs” were used in the Yearbook for many years to identify whether women were single or married.
Here is a page from the 1939 Yearbook
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Two women are still identified as Mrs in every Yearbook; they served as General Conference Treasurers:
Mrs A P Van Horn – Feb 7, 1871-Mar 11, 1873; andMrs M J Chapman – Sept 20, 1877 – Nov 8, 1883.
(GC Treasurers from page 18, 2017 Yearbook)
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1997 Yearbook Copyright Page
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How has the Yearbook remained the same
over the years?
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Administrators in the 1883 Yearbook
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1884 Yearbook with Ministers and Licensed Ministers
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Workers’ Directory – 1890 Yearbook
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Opening Screen of the 2017YB on Disk
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Map of United States districts – 1890YB
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Western European Union Conferences1910 Yearbook
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Middle East Division and union statistics –1963 Yearbook
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Map of the Euro-Asia Division – 2017YB
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General Conference Constitution – 1883YB
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Constitution and Bylaws of the General Conference
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Fundamental Beliefs (22) – 1931 Yearbook
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Fundamental Beliefs (28) – 2017 Yearbook
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Opening page of the Archives, Statistics, and Research website
www.adventistarchives.org
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1908 Yearbook cost 25 cents
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1905 Yearbook
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How is the Yearbook relevant today?
Especially to Librarians, Researchers, Millennials, and
Those who Come After
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1) contemporary research – information on Adventist entities and employees; learn about church administration and structure; maps of church territories; verify official church entities; official names of entities and people; and to discover whether someone is credentialed by the Church;
and for
2) historic research – this is the same type of research, except it can go back 134 years and provides information on who worked where and when; historical addresses of entities; discover previous territorial arrangements; historical maps; official names of entities and people; discover whether someone was credentialed; the year an entity was organized or established; and for biographical research.
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people research – anyone wanting to research a Church pioneer, contemporary leaders, or just an ordinary relative who worked for the Church, will automatically need to look at present or past Yearbooks
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Dominican Republic - 1955
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SSD Opening Page and Territory Description –2017 Yearbook
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Conclusion
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And trust me, I do!