With any luck, by the end of this year my book on the Early Sources on the emerging high degree Masonic bodies that became the Scottish Rite will see the press. COVID-19 has been challenging on all aspects of the economy and society, and the publishing industry is no exception. One positive aspect is that one finds themselves with extra time on their hands, allowing for some experimentation. These French sources will comprise a bilingual book (French and English) with all known correspondence from 1744-1767, containing all of the Sharp documents [a collection of Elus Parfaits corresponce covering France, the Antilles and Louisiana], the Etienne Morin letters published in St. Claudius by Choumitzky, along with the correspondence from the former Grand Lodge of France, that came into the possession of the Grand Orient de France. The project is a collaboration between the Grand Collège des Rites écossais and the Scottish Rite Research Society. It has been a massive undertaking and will yield an extremely useful source book for both Historians and Masons alike. I will try to give the data that went into the project here on FactGrid so that the research community can use and expand this base into any direction.

The curious question leading me here is: What did Freemasonry look like in the colonial possessions of France during the 18th century?

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2100

In einer gewaltigen Arbeitsleistung überführte Heino Richard von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogie Thüringen e.V., Gothaer und Eisenacher Land, im letzten Jahr den ersten Band des Thüringischen Pfarrerbuchs, den Band für das ehemalige Herzogtum Gotha, in eine Version von über 13,300 Datenbankobjekten, die nun ganz neue Auswertungen erlauben und die vielleicht damit interessante Kooperationen nahelegen. Dass das Datenbankangebot die weitere Arbeit an den Pfarrerbüchern erübrigen wird, steht nicht zu befürchten. Vielleicht aber wird sich das FactGrid den Bearbeitern der Bände als unerwartetes Hilfsmittel anbieten.

Die bisher erstellten acht Bände erfassen von der Reformation bis ins 20. Jahrhundert alle Pfarreien der ehemaligen Thüringer Territorien.

In einem ersten Part sind jeweils die Amtsinhaber nach Pfarreien chronologisch aufgelistet.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/1923

With so many conferences cancelled these days Joe Saunders had a particularly refreshing idea to be played out on the internet: To host the first Early Modern Quonference on Twitter.

We have decided to join the event with a call for data to present in a special data drive session on the event.

Whom would we like to attract? With a deadline on May 1st all those who should have data at their fingertips. If you have data silently passing away on old spreadsheets, decomposing on massive antiquated hard disc drives, rotting on databases islands without a download button… this is the moment to fuse them into the collaborative resource and to check whether we cannot link them to far more data on the growing community platform.

This is Joe’s announcement

Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/1848