This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2VB.2ACE/430.1.1 Message Board Post: It helps a great deal. My distant relative, Elizabeth Green Stith was a member. She was a seamstress and I saw in a newspaper that she had participated in a sewing contest. That is why I thought they were a sewing group! I'm sure that was all just to raise money.