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In the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, the monthly meeting is the basic unit, similar to a "church" in other denominations. Friends can meet for worship anywhere and consider the people to be the church. The building is often called a meeting house. Modern Friends usually meet weekly for worship and monthly for business. The term "monthly meeting" (abbreviated MM) applies to both the congregation and to the business meeting. However, some modern evangelical and non-English-speaking congregations use the word "church." New groups that have not yet been recognized as official monthly meetings are called preparative or particular meetings (PM) or worship groups. Except for SAYMA worship groups and a few preparatory meetings for which we have records, the following lists only include official monthly meetings. Most have at some time been affiliated with North Carolina Yearly Meeting, the oldest organization of Friends in the Southeast that at times included South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and some meetings in Virginia.
* - An asterisk marks records available via Ancestry.com.
AFCM - Atlantic Friends Christian Ministries
EFC-ER - Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region
FCNC - Friends Church of North Carolina
Ind. - Independent
MM - monthly meeting
NCFF - North Carolina Fellowship of Friends
NCYM - North Carolina Yearly Meeting
NCYM (C) - North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative)
n.d. - no date
Palmetto - Palmetto Friends Gathering
PFF - Piedmont Friends Fellowship
PFYM - Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting
PM - preparatory meeting, particular meeting
QM - quarterly meeting: a regional group of monthly meetings
SAYMA - Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association
YM - yearly meeting