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TO DO
This is an open-ended project, but there are specific tasks that are either in progress or in need of attention. If you'd like to work on one, please sign up below.
LARGE TASKS
- Reformatting all Lodge pages by sorting out Proceedings References.
- Walter (hotc1733).
- Master page: Massachusetts Lodges main page
- Status: ongoing.
- Pages with no preceding symbol are complete
- Pages with a preceding • are missing something, usually a Past Master list
- Pages with a preceding x are usually pre-1792 lodges for which I have little information
- Year pages from 1755 to 1791.
- Walter (hotc1733).
- Master page: Massachusetts Years main page
- Status: ongoing.
- Pages with a ★ have been updated
- Pages with a ☆ have the correct lodge listing, but nothing else
- Pages with no symbol have only the Grand Master name and not much else
- Grand Constitutions (1953) updates and changes
- needs attention
- Master page: 1953 Grand Constitution
- Status: changes incomplete; I stopped updating this in the mid-1970s.
- Required: a look at the Proceedings from about 1975 to the present, with changes edited in according to the style given.
- Moore's Freemason's Monthly additions
- Walter (hotc1733).
- Master page: none in general; edicts linked from main Edicts page
- Status: all relevant entries extracted from Volumes I-XIII, XXIV, XXV; XVII (Numbers 2 and 7-12); XVIII, XXVI-XXVII, XXX-XXXI pending
- Required: must visit the GL Library with laptop and scanner for missing volumes
- Master Histories Page
- Walter (hotc1733) to start, but I'd like help with scanning
- In process.
- I'm in the process of adding historical essays from the Proceedings, but this is a slow process. Anyone who would like to volunteer to scan material from the Proceedings and add it to a relevant lodge page history section (see, for example, St. Matthew's Centennial History, found in the 1922 Proceedings).
- I have scanned all histories from 1922, 1941, 1944, and 1982 as they have come into my hands; I have PDF versions of the Proceedings from 1733-1905, as well as 1911, 1914-1919, and 2002-present, so they don't need attention. I have an OCR conversion program if the PDF doesn't allow select and copy/paste.
ONGOING TASKS
- Past Master Lists
- everyone and anyone
- Master page: PMs Needed master page
- Status: See that page for lists of active lodges currently needed. There are numerous no longer active lodges that also need to be compiled.
- Pictures, particularly of Past Masters and Permanent Members
- everyone and anyone
- I only have a few lodges where I have PM pictures; anyone who can put together a set of pictures of Past Masters or distinguished Brothers is welcome to supply them and we'll get them put up.
- A large number of Permanent Members have no pictures on their pages; on the people master page they are indicated by the absence of a © symbol.
- Biographies of Permanent Members
- everyone and anyone
- By comparison there are relatively few Permanent Members (deceased) lacking a biography or memorial. However, there are a fair number of living Permanent Members with no text on their page (they lack a ¶ symbol next to their names).
- Trowel Article Index
- anyone who wants to volunteer
- Master page: Trowel Index
- Complete through 2009. I'd really like to scan some of this material.
UPDATES AND MISSING INFO
- Need a necrology for Rt. Wor. George D. Hammond, Master of Concordia (George H. Taber) Lodge in 1886-1888, DDGM New Bedford 26, 1902.
- Need a necrology for Rt. Wor. Harold J. Kaswell, Master of Moses Michael Hays in 1964, DDGM Boston 2, 1970-71.
- Need a necrology for Rt. Wor. Celian H. Abbott, Master of Artisan Lodge 1934-1935, DDGM Barre 13, 1942-1943.
- Need to figure out PMs for Franklin for 1853-1861
- Need Adams 1797-1821
- Need Algonquin 1949-1953, 1955-1961, 1963, 1965-1967, 1969, 1970, 1973-1988
- Need Anchor 1875-1879
- Need Cawnacome Sunshine 2002
- Need Chicopee 1974-present
- Need Constellation Lodge Masters from earlier period
- Need Fraternal 1941
- Need Galilean 1969-1997
- Need Granite various from 1956-1993
- Need Grecian 1975-1986
- Need Hayden 1993-present
- Need Ionic (Easthampton) 2004, 2005
- Need Marine 1830-1833
- Need Metacomet Daylight 1988-1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999
- Need Mount Vernon-Galilean 1997-2002
- Need Social Harmony various from 1823 forward
- Need Tuscan 1865-1872, 1907, 1908, 1913-14, 1923-24, 1941-42, 1960-61, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1972-75, 1977, 1978