I have taken some of John B.'s dates directly into master list we are setting
up.
 
I though it would be worthwhile to give my own additional notes however on four
places:

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We had Pennsylvania: Philadelphia 1st organizational meeting February 28, 1940;
Jimmy Burwell formed the Philadelphia Mother Group on March 6, 1940.

John B. gives Philadelphia February 13, 1940, using the date from the little bio
of Jimmy Burwell at http://www.barefootsworld.net/aaburwell.html

What do the folks from that part of the east coast say about this? Should it be
February 28 or February 13? And what documents or other kinds of evidence do we
have?

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We had Illinois: Chicago (Evanston) September 20, 1939, using the date of the
first meeting in Chicago, as given in the history of Chicago AA given to us by
Past Chicago Delegate Don Bennitt.
John B. gives Chicago September 13, 1939, using Sylvia K.'s sobriety date.

I think the date of the first meeting, since we now have it, is the more
appropriate one to give.

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We had California: San Francisco November 21, 1939, using the date when they had
their first meeting in Ray W.'s room at the Clift Hotel.

John B. give San Francisco December 1939, taking the date when the group started
meeting in Mrs Oram's kitchen.

I think the first meeting in Ray's hotel room ought to be counted as the
founding date, using the normal custom of calculating when AA started at a place
(that is, the group doesn't have to have a regular meeting place, as long as
they have actually started meeting).

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We had Michigan: Detroit January 4, 1940.

John B. gives Detroit December 1939, which is the date given on the Detroit
intergroup's website. (This is also the date given in
http://hindsfoot.org/detr0.html which is taken from the same Detroit intergroup
website.)

It seems to me that we ought to take John B.'s date here as the correct one.