There is a website for the Alabama Grand Lodge of Free Masons at: http://alagl.org Should be able to find out just how you would do research on your grandfather and g-grandfather. Would imagine it is in Montgomery. Yes, Melba, I think that is why most of the churches in Forsyth Co., GA where I was raised had become Missionary Baptists in the mid 19th century because they were able to be Free Masons. The Rowan County, NC (Salisbury) Courthouse has intact records back to 1750 because General Stoneman was talked out of burning the courthouse in 1865 when he overran the Confederate Prison Camp in Salisbury. He was a mason and the mayor(a mason) asked him as a mason not to burn the CH and he did not torch it. Don Pruitt