An initiative under the UGCA Strategic Plan was to work out the best way to preserve the History of the Order of the Eastern Star in Australia. The Strategic Working Party has therefore been looking at a number of options and it has been agreed that the best method at this time is to place Chapter history on our Website. This will provide a searchable function, not only for our Members but the wider community who regularly contact our Website asking for details of past members and Chapters researching their family tree.
The United Grand Chapter of Australia is therefore asking all Chapters to provide what they can in the way of a history and timeline describing the journey of their Chapter. Details for dormant Chapters are also requested if members have that in hand. Many Chapters have done a history book for major birthday events and this is a start of what is required.
Two documents support this: the letter sent to all Chapters about the initiative (PDF), and the template a Chapter can use to capture its history (PDF).
A Chapter’s history is published on that Chapter’s own page in the directory, alongside where and when it meets — there is no separate history page to hunt for. The register below lists every Chapter whose history has reached us, and links straight through to it.