In a message dated 1/15/2000 2:05:47 PM Mountain Standard Time, ANDERSON-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << What kind of information can you expect to find from either the Masons or the Eastern Star? What info is in the initiation? What are the degrees? >> I had a friend who worked from the Masonic temple and she wrote to the national registry for me and obtained information on my Ross family of Texas in the 1980s. My friend is deceased. She was a secretary for the Masonic Temple. If you have contact with a lodge large enough to have a secretary, contact the secretary and request a search of the Surname in the particular county & state you are interested. If you are speaking of old records all they have is the name, date they joined any particular lodge, if their dues were current (the period I obtained information for was 1850-1900). If it is recent records I was told they obtain the parents names of the individuals who join. However, I think you can only obtain information on deceased individuals. They did have the correct death date from my great grandfather. Martha