In ongoing research on the properties and fabrication of cuprate superconductors, we report here: experimental details on their magnetic alignment and its determination; a study of the ‘‘crossing over’’ from parallel to normal alignment (or failure to do so completely) in Gd‐containing Bi‐2212 and 123, respectively; and data on the complex magnetic field alignement of the non‐superconducting 211 phase RE2BaCuO5as a function of the rare earth (RE).