Names of Two Million (*) Freemason Members 1733 to 1923 Online (title amended)

[dawnsh]

Most libraries have a time limit, and I presume you need to click England /UK on the opening search page, as Ancestry anoyingly defaults mostly to US results for me, rather than give all the English ones first.


Regards Mark

Hi Mark

If you are using Library Edition, from the landing page click the green button "begin searching",

on the next page go to the top right of the screen and next to Special Collections is a button for the "card catalogue", click that

and type the word "freemason" not freemasons or masons into the box and the one title returned is the one you want.

It might be a bit quicker than selecting the country and going on from there.

[dawnsh]

My gg-grandfather is listed several times, as a member and founder member of a few lodges, some of which we knew about and some we didn't.

[Ray T]

I must admit to being amused by the option on the search page to specify whether you were looking for a male or female.

[pinefamily]

I must admit to being amused by the option on the search page to specify whether you were looking for a male or female.

I sat after reading your post, Ray, trying to find an appropriate comment. I have nothing. 

[dawnsh]

why?

https://www.owf.org.uk/

celebrated their centenary in 2008

[pinefamily]

Thank you, Dawn. I have learned something today.

[dawnsh]

especially for you

http://freemasonryformenandwomen.org.au/female-freemasons

[StevieSteve]

Even so, selecting Female produces no good matches...

[Ray T]

I am sure there are always exceptions but I think I'm correct in stating that Freemasonry is essentially a male preserve. If anyone can find a female in the registers please shout out and prove me wrong.

By way of example, searching the registers, for the male gender, for the twenty years between 1901 and 1921, reveals one million, six hundred and fifty three thousand, five hundred and eighty four results. Searching for the female gender over the same period reveals precisely zero. 

Someone inputting the data must have decided that they were all male so why have a gender tab?