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Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Re: Application Review Form
From: Plymouth Library (gsmdplymouth@yahoo.com)
Sent: Tue 4/29/08 6:55 AM
To: Jennifer M. Slate Froebel (jfroebel@live.com); James W Lucas (msmd@massmayflower.org)
April 29, 2008
Hello Ms. Froebel
We are delighted to learn of your interest in the Mayflower Society. We have received your Preliminary Review Form and have attempted to
determine a best approved lineage paper that we might have which follows your stated lineage. GS#63168 matches your proposed lineage, from
Mayflower passenger John Billington, but only through the 6th generation: Jonathan Slate m. Mehitable Burke. This is a well documented
paper, as far as it goes, which then follows this couple's daughter Clarissa; but, unfortunately, we have no previously approved lineage papers at
all that follow a son Obed. The fact that we have no previously approved lineage papers that follow your line any further basically means that the
prospective applicant would be in the position of having to prove everything from the birth of Obed, and his marriage to Susanna Doolittle, down to
themselves.
Please note that your proposed line is followed through the birth of Jonathan Slate in our Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol 5: John
Billington book, published by the Mayflower Society, and this is all the documentation necessary for the lineage down to that point, so this lineage
paper would not help you very much beyond marriage info for Jonathan and Mehitable. For generation 6, GS#63168 references Mayflower
Families, Vol. 5 (mentioned above) and "Hist Bernardston Ma."
Membership to the Mayflower Society is approached at the state level, with contact information for the various state societies being found in the
Membership section of our website. There are no residency requirements and the applicant can approach membership through whichever state
society they choose. In general, any prospective applicant will be required to prove their lineage beyond whatever point for which the Mayflower
Society already has a previously approved lineage paper. We realize, of course, that this may appear to be a daunting task. But hopefully it will be a
rewarding one for you and your family. The best place to begin, of course, is with your immediate family. Since full documentation will be required
for the immediate three generations: the applicant, their parents, and the line-carrying grandparents, this is always the best place to begin
gathering proof, full documentation meaning all applicable birth, marriage and death records. The historian for the Mayflower Society in
Massachusetts will also receive a copy of this review so that they will be aware of your interest.
When moving back beyond grandparents, documentation can be provided in the form of such documents as, of course, actual birth, marriage and
death certificates, where available, probate records (Wills), land records which state relationships or, in the absence of these, some published
record found in Vital Records of Towns, Town Histories, Family Genealogies et al. There are a number of published records that can be used to
prove descent from one generation to the next, but this is the challenge of proving a Mayflower lineage: finding these. Perhaps if you can locate
information on your great-grandfather Ames Slate, and thereby locate where his parents lived, or perhaps died, you might be able to get
some birth, marriage or death records from there and continue working backward in such a manner. Death records will "usually" name parents.
Hopefully you already know some of this and perhaps your family has some of these documents.
If you would like a copy of this previously approved lineage paper to assist you in your research, you may obtain such a copy for a charge of $10.00,
pre-paid, and can choose to receive your copy either as a scanned copy by e-mail, or a hard copy by postal mail. Due to today's privacy concerns,
information on individuals born after 1905 must be blocked off on all papers sent. At this time, payment can only be accepted by check or money
order.
Follow-up on this assessment of your proposed lineage cannot be approached here at Plymouth due to the large response we are receiving
to the online lineage reviews. Therefore, contacting the state through which one would be considering membership would be the potential
applicant’s best next step.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY DOCUMENTATION DIRECTLY TO PLYMOUTH.
If you would like to obtain a copy of the above lineage paper, please send your check/money order of $10.00, along with the bottom portion of this e-
mail, to:
GSMD
P.O. Box 3297
Plymouth, MA 02361
Good Luck,
Todd Holden
Assistant to the Librarian, GSMD
Please send a scanned copy of Lineage paper GS#__________ to me at
e-mail address __________________________________ : or send a paper
copy to: _____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
From: Plymouth Library (gsmdplymouth@yahoo.com)
Sent: Tue 4/29/08 6:55 AM
To: Jennifer M. Slate Froebel (jfroebel@live.com); James W Lucas (msmd@massmayflower.org)
April 29, 2008
Hello Ms. Froebel
We are delighted to learn of your interest in the Mayflower Society. We have received your Preliminary Review Form and have attempted to
determine a best approved lineage paper that we might have which follows your stated lineage. GS#63168 matches your proposed lineage, from
Mayflower passenger John Billington, but only through the 6th generation: Jonathan Slate m. Mehitable Burke. This is a well documented
paper, as far as it goes, which then follows this couple's daughter Clarissa; but, unfortunately, we have no previously approved lineage papers at
all that follow a son Obed. The fact that we have no previously approved lineage papers that follow your line any further basically means that the
prospective applicant would be in the position of having to prove everything from the birth of Obed, and his marriage to Susanna Doolittle, down to
themselves.
Please note that your proposed line is followed through the birth of Jonathan Slate in our Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol 5: John
Billington book, published by the Mayflower Society, and this is all the documentation necessary for the lineage down to that point, so this lineage
paper would not help you very much beyond marriage info for Jonathan and Mehitable. For generation 6, GS#63168 references Mayflower
Families, Vol. 5 (mentioned above) and "Hist Bernardston Ma."
Membership to the Mayflower Society is approached at the state level, with contact information for the various state societies being found in the
Membership section of our website. There are no residency requirements and the applicant can approach membership through whichever state
society they choose. In general, any prospective applicant will be required to prove their lineage beyond whatever point for which the Mayflower
Society already has a previously approved lineage paper. We realize, of course, that this may appear to be a daunting task. But hopefully it will be a
rewarding one for you and your family. The best place to begin, of course, is with your immediate family. Since full documentation will be required
for the immediate three generations: the applicant, their parents, and the line-carrying grandparents, this is always the best place to begin
gathering proof, full documentation meaning all applicable birth, marriage and death records. The historian for the Mayflower Society in
Massachusetts will also receive a copy of this review so that they will be aware of your interest.
When moving back beyond grandparents, documentation can be provided in the form of such documents as, of course, actual birth, marriage and
death certificates, where available, probate records (Wills), land records which state relationships or, in the absence of these, some published
record found in Vital Records of Towns, Town Histories, Family Genealogies et al. There are a number of published records that can be used to
prove descent from one generation to the next, but this is the challenge of proving a Mayflower lineage: finding these. Perhaps if you can locate
information on your great-grandfather Ames Slate, and thereby locate where his parents lived, or perhaps died, you might be able to get
some birth, marriage or death records from there and continue working backward in such a manner. Death records will "usually" name parents.
Hopefully you already know some of this and perhaps your family has some of these documents.
If you would like a copy of this previously approved lineage paper to assist you in your research, you may obtain such a copy for a charge of $10.00,
pre-paid, and can choose to receive your copy either as a scanned copy by e-mail, or a hard copy by postal mail. Due to today's privacy concerns,
information on individuals born after 1905 must be blocked off on all papers sent. At this time, payment can only be accepted by check or money
order.
Follow-up on this assessment of your proposed lineage cannot be approached here at Plymouth due to the large response we are receiving
to the online lineage reviews. Therefore, contacting the state through which one would be considering membership would be the potential
applicant’s best next step.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY DOCUMENTATION DIRECTLY TO PLYMOUTH.
If you would like to obtain a copy of the above lineage paper, please send your check/money order of $10.00, along with the bottom portion of this e-
mail, to:
GSMD
P.O. Box 3297
Plymouth, MA 02361
Good Luck,
Todd Holden
Assistant to the Librarian, GSMD
Please send a scanned copy of Lineage paper GS#__________ to me at
e-mail address __________________________________ : or send a paper
copy to: _____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________