meriadoc

I'm suprised no one caught this. You may have been tapped out, but did you go through your Ordeal? If you didn't go through your Ordeal you never became a member. As an adult it would be necessary for you to meet the camping requirements and be recommended by the unit leader and committee chairman of your troop/team. If you actually did take your Ordeal then you would have to contact the lodge where you were a member. The only records kept at National are for those that make Vigil Honor. If your old lodge merged with another it will depend on how well the records were kept and transfered. Some lodges will accept an old registration card as proof of prior membership. I would agree with what the others have said, that you need to be registered within the council before joining that council's lodge.