Here is address for the NC Masonic Lodge site. This page gives instructions for requesting research in their file. Apparently, the fellow at the seminar to which I referred knew what he was talking about. NC Free Masons are apparently more open than other states. Seems that this should be pointed out to Masons in AL, LA and TX. Would suspect that NC also had info on parents and other male kin who were Masons. http://www.grandlodge-nc.org/nclor/index.htm Just hope this might help someone out there. Don Pruitt