Mary Alice, 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? Thanks, Sandy The person who wrote and said that you would have to know the chapter # and if it still exists is right on the mark. I belonged to the OES and there is really no vital information to give. If you just want to know when they joined that is about it. The extensive record keeping of each meeting is there and in my chapter you would have volumes to read through. We were fortunate to have had a secretary for 30 some years but she would even have trouble telling you when someone was initiated into the order. As for the degrees, they are secret and no one can give out that information. The initiation ceremony is also secret and deals with the degrees. But there is no family information except for maybe their address at the time. I'm not sure if the Masons are the same way but I was always led to believe that they were. Of course this may be different in each state. I belong in Illinois. BOOMER-RAPEAN-ANDERSON-WINEGAR-FRITZ-CROWLEY-WEATHERHEAD-RITCHIE-DILLSAVER-C LEAVELAND-FOULKES-MORGAN-WINN-LENTZ-MELDORF-LAABS-CAMPBELL