Saturday, November 1, 2025

‘Webinar on New York genealogical research’

    

Sorry for the short notice but, if you can be available Thursday afternoon, I think you’ll find this webinar on research techniques profitable. From the publicity:


Unlocking the Mysteries:
An Introduction to Using
American Fraternal Records
in Genealogical Research

Thursday, November 6
6 p.m.
Free (registration is required)
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Join us for a virtual webinar hosted by the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society about American Masonic and fraternal organizations, focusing on New York, and how their records can help you in your genealogical research.

Join Jeffrey Croteau and Sarah Shepherd of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library for a webinar about American Masonic and fraternal organizations, focusing on New York, and how their records can help you in your genealogical research.

The presentation will start with a brief introduction to popular fraternal organizations such as Freemasonry and Order of Eastern Star, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, and Knights of Pythias.



The presenters will discuss what types of fraternal records exist, go in-depth on where to find them, and talk about what kind of information these records may contain. This talk will be followed by a Q&A session. This virtual webinar will take place on Thursday, November 6, at 6 p.m.

The event, part of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library’s fiftieth anniversary programming, will be hosted by the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society.

This is a free online webinar, but registration is required.
     

‘Good Samaritan’s Thanksgiving’

    
Good Samaritan Lodge 336 in Gettysburg will host another of its famous Civil War Dinners in three weeks. If it wasn’t hundreds of miles away, I’d be there every time, but if you are nearer, you should go. Here is the publicity:

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As you know, November 22 is the anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis in 1963. The scholar-author (and Inkling!) was inspired by the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) to exhort Christians to convert the moral instruction of that Scripture into personal action. As the C.S. Lewis Institute puts it:

C.S. Lewis Institute
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