Membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants
in the State of Washington includes membership in The General Society of
Mayflower Descendants, as well as being able to attend regular membership gatherings in
the State of Washington and General Mayflower Society Annual Meetings.
Members of the Washington Mayflower Society receive
the newsletter,
"Evergreen Log"
published three (3) times annually.
Members also recieve copies of the Mayflower Quarterly
published by the General Mayflower Society of Massachusetts which is published four (4) times annually
"Mayflower Quarterly".
Subscriptions to the Mayflower Quarterly are
available to non-members at an annual rate of $15.00 US.
The Washington Mayflower Society holds two (2) Luncheon Meetings
with Historical Educational Speakers & one (1) Summer Picnic Meeting annually for members, spouses,
junior members, guests, visitors and prospective members. All meetings are
held on Sunday.
As a member of the General Mayflower Society and the Washington State Mayflower Society you
can purchase Mayflower Insignia items that can be worn to meetings containing your state of
membership and your ancestor's names (in some cases husband & wife), or jewelry that can be worn
at any time as ring, necklace, lapel pins and charms for a bracelet. There are other items with
Mayflower Insignia such as clocks, glass ornaments, silk ties and a scarf. All of these items
may be purchased from
Mayflower Insignia - Items For Sale can only be worn by Mayflower Society Members.
Insignia items worn on the ribbon can only be worn at Mayflower Meeting or when a Mayflower Member
is representing the Mayflower Society at an event. Read the General Societies
Mayflower Insignia Etiquette.
In addition, if you join the Mayflower Society, you will
be honoring the memory of those forefathers who helped set the pattern for our great
democracy, and you will enter into the fellowship of people who share a common history
and ancestry in the passengers of the Mayflower.
The relationship with other Mayflower Society Members is strengthened by the
fact that so few passeengers came on the Mayflower. Other Lineage Societies have hundreds
of ancestors and the chance of finding a cousin is slim. Washington
Mayflower Cousins
Through the programs of this Society, the common history can be made to come alive for you.
And if you choose to personally participate in the Society's programs (education
of school-age children, for example), you can help make that history come
alive for others.
In joining the Mayflower Society, your genealogical record will be filed
in a secure place, both with the Washington Society and with the General Society
in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This will be an invaluable gift to your descendants
to have your records on file with the Society and this will make your family heritage
available to future generations and assist them in the establishing of their genealogical
lines.
Last benefit of membership in the Mayflower Society is the beautiful
Mayflower emblem that is designed to be place on a Mayflower members grave stone.
Many years in the future when a descentants of yours visits your grave or views a picture
of your grave stone, they will find this Mayflower Emblem and then they will learn they also have
Mayflower Ancestors. What a great gift to your future generations informing them of a fact they
may never have known.
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