FN Encyclopedia
In 1985, The Family published a 1340-page book titled The FN Encyclopedia. The book consisted of reprints of many FN articles from 1977 to 1982.
In the early 1990s, Family leaders ordered the book to be purged. As a result, most copies of the book were destroyed and, as of early 2008, only a small handful are still in existence (primarily in the collections of former members).
Preface
The FN ENCYCLOPEDIA includes over 2200 FN articles originally published during 1977-82, including comments made by Dad & Maria pertaining to different situations. Top articles from all FNs up to & including BOTM 2 (FN 52) have been reprinted in the FN ENCYCLOPEDIA.* In order to quickly & economically produce such a valuable large volume which includes so much material, it was necessary to reduce the original photo quality & size of text, which should, however, be sufficient for reference purposes.
A complete index to the FN ENCYCLOPEDIA may be found in the FINDEX section of the PUBDEX. In order to take full advantage of the material published in the FN ENCYCLOPEDIA, you must use it along with the FINDEX, as all articles in the FN ENCYCLOPEDIA are systematically categorised both by subject & by author in the FINDEX listing.
Have you ever wanted to read up on the RNR, or the FF Explosion in Tenerife? Or have you unsuccessfully tried to find a certain FN article, or just simply not had all the Mags needed to research a particular subject? Now with the FN ENCYCLOPEDIA & FINDEX, you can now do all this & more! We pray this will be a helpful tool so that you can benefit from the high-quality material that the Family has written over the years.
( * With the exception of specialised non-news issues: True Komix FNs 19,26,29 4 31; Mobile Ministry FN 25; L. American edition FN 28; Flannelgraph FN 33.)
Articles
- The Blessings of Older Children! (page 510) (1 page, 392k) — by Seek and Secundus
- Testimony of a Child Bride & Young Mother (pages 1308-1310) — 1982 – by Fiona Spencer
Page scans
FN Encyclopedia - Cover and Preface (5 pages, 626K)- FN Encyclopedia -individual page scans (671 PDF files, 199M)
- FN Encyclopedia -individual page scans (medium quality) (671 PDF files, 375M)
- FN Encyclopedia - entire book (676 pages, 198.13M)
- FN Encyclopedia - entire book (medium quality) (676 pages, 374.43M)
Related Family publications
FINDEX
The FN Encyclopedia does not have a table of contents or an index. However, in 1985, The Family also published the Pubdex and it included a section called the FINDEX which included a detailed index of the articles found in the FN Encyclopedia
- Findex Cover and Introduction (909k, 3 pages) – pages 195-199.
- Aphabetical List of Categories (382k, 1 page) — "A List of 400 Categories into which virtually all the articles ever written by the Family have been indexed" – pages 200-201.
- Table of Subjects (2.9MB, 7 pages) — "A directory for finding things in the FINDEX" – pages 202-214.
- The Findex (27.9MB, 67 pages) — "A categorical listing of all the titles & authors of virtually all published articles, along with where to find them" – pages 215-347.
- Findex Author Index (11.53MB, 32 pages) — "A chronological listing of virtually every article written by every person who has ever written anything published for the Family" – pages 348-410.
