Category talk:Fraternal and service organizations

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[edit] New Category

After a lot of work I created this category as a sub-category of "Human societies" where it would best fit in the categorization project. The effort stemmed from a lack of sleep and being pretty upset when I saw Freemasonry and the Ku Klux Klan on the same list.

Most of the organizations had something written on them, stubs at least. I wrote stubs for Moose International and Fraternal Order of Eagles and am hopeful members from those organizations will pick up the ball from there.

Being a Senior DeMolay my focus was on the Masonic Organizations and getting them organized. I know there is another Masonic Youth Group called "Boy Builders" that existed at one time but have found nothing on it thus far, it will require more research.

I am not a Master Mason (although this work has gotten me thinking about joining lodge again) nor a member of the other rites so please, if you note any mistakes feel free to step up and correct them. I tried to write it from an unbiased point of view.

Hope all approve of the work (it took a while!).

Wgfinley 16:27, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your work WF. To further refine the categorization, I'm going to create a separate category for genealogical organizations such as the DAR, Mayflower Society, etc. There are many of them and their primary purposes are neither fraternal nor service-related (though some are male only and most perform some heritage service). Cheers-Willmcw 23:50, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category links

Is there a reason why this category is linked at the Secret Society category page? I don't think any of these fraternal and service organizations would count as Secret Societies. Blueboar 18:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)