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The 36Th Annual Compact Meeting and Luncheon 5 September 2016 Volume 36 Number 2 IN THIS ISSUE The 36th Annual Compact 36th Annual Compact Meeting and Luncheon Meeting and Luncheon 1 Mark your calendars and plan to attend our 36th Annual Compact Meeting and Luncheon on Saturday, October 22. The format will change slightly this year with the business meeting at 11:30 a.m., Governor’s Column 2 followed by a social hour at noon, buffet lunch that includes roast turkey at 1 p.m., and guest speaker at 2:00 p.m. The Business Page 2 Our guest speaker will be professional genealogist and lecturer Ruth Burkholder who will speak on the subject 'Leaving Your History Necrology 4 Behind You' -- how to ensure that our genealogical records are preserved for our children and grandchildren. New Members 5 Ruth Burkholder has successfully educated many family historians for many years. She is well known for her ability to explain both simple and complex research activities in an easy to understand way. Most of Members News 5 all, Ruth has a knack of keeping the fun it in it while providing proper methods and advice that comply with accepted genealogical research and recording practices. Ruth is the author of Mayflower History 7 Starting Out in Genealogy. The cost of the luncheon is $49 per person (cash bar). Payment can be made by PayPal (see below), or if you prefer, cheque or money order, payable to CSMD or Canadian Society of Mayflower Descendants. Cheques and money orders can be sent to the Treasurer, Maureen McGee, 1060 Ewart Street, Prince George. B. C. V2M 2P2 http://www.paypal.com/ca/home Please confirm your attendance separately by email to George McNeillie and advise us of any dietary restrictions at that time. [email protected] Payments and attendance confirmation are due by October 12. Please note that we are unable to accommodate walk-ins. http://www.csmd.org 5 September 2016 2 Volume 36 Number 2 Governor’s Message If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to send them to me at [email protected] or by mail c/o 47 St. t has been a busy year for your Clair Ave. West – Apt. 903, Toronto, ON M4V 3A5. I Society! A major project involved Thank you! coordinating the move of the entire Mayflower collection from the With best wishes, Canadiana Collection at the North York Central Library to the Toronto George G. McNeillie, III Public Library at 789 Yonge Street. CSMD had invested a considerable amount of money, time and effort over the past 35 years to build this valuable resource, and we wanted to ensure that our collection was preserved intact. I am pleased to report that the move was made successfully over the summer and we are in contact with the library to draft a new letter of agreement and to determine when the collection will be available again for research purposes. I would like to thank our past CSMD librarian Brent Rutherford for his work in cataloguing the collection. It remains as a separate collection, stored and conserved by the Toronto Public Library, but owned by CSMD. Materials will be available to the public through a request to the stacks, and we will provide details on how to access them in a future newsletter. BOARD OF ASSISTANTS The library also asked if we wanted to keep the duplications from our collection (otherwise, they would destroy them). A big Governor: George McNeillie III: vote of thanks is owed to CSMD Historian Nathan Mean for [email protected] agreeing to house the duplicates in his condo. The library packaged up the duplicates for us and we arranged to move all Nova Scotia Regent: Bill Curry: 18 boxes to Nathan! This was a huge and time-consuming project, but I am pleased to report that we have ensured that [email protected] this important resource will continue to be available to members and others who wish to research their Mayflower antecedents. Treasurer: Maureen McGee: [email protected] Congratulations to Susan Roser, our Member-at-Large, who is also Secretary General of the General Society, on her appointment as Editor of The Mayflower Quarterly. Susan has Historian: Nathan Mean authored many works on Mayflower genealogy and we cannot [email protected] think of a more appropriate addition to this esteemed publication. Co-Historian: Donna Denison: My sincere thanks as always to my fellow Board of Assistants’ [email protected] members who are all volunteers and who work tirelessly to keep the Society ticking – especially to Gary Bennett who stepped Elder: Robert V. White: [email protected] down in late April as our Corresponding Secretary. Gary was a terrific asset to the Board and we will miss both his diligence Counsellor: Alexander D. “Sandy” and his sense of humour. We send him every good wish and look forward to seeing him at the Annual Compact meeting. Fairbanks: [email protected] Elsewhere in the newsletter you will see that we still have positions open on the Board and we will be approaching some of Surgeon: Dr. George R. Nye: you directly to determine if you are interested in serving. [email protected] The 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing in 2020 is fast approaching and we are looking for relevant ways to ensure that Editor, Canadian Pilgrim: Robert W. White: the event is celebrated in Canada. Stand by for more news of [email protected] this in the coming months. Member at Large: Susan Roser: We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our Annual Compact Meeting and Luncheon on Saturday, October [email protected] 22, 2016 at the Toronto Cricket Club in Toronto. http://www.csmd.org 5 September 2016 3 Volume 36 Number 2 STAY IN TOUCH On CSMD.org If you are moving please let us know so we can ensure ongoing Check out our website under the Board of Assistants and Annual mail delivery to you. Do we have your email address and phone Compact Meetings links for agendas, reports and number? minutes of recent meetings [email protected] GO GREEN: EMAIL REMINDER The CSMD now uses email exclusively wherever possible to MEMBERS’ BIOGRAPHIES AND PICTURES communicate with members, applicants and prospective Do we have your biography or is the biography that we have of you members. This includes distribution of the Canadian Pilgrim outdated? If you’d like to be included in future Member Spotlight fea- newsletter. Regular mail is used only for those members who do tures, please email your bio and a recent head and shoulders photo to not use email, or by request to [email protected] [email protected] MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS NOW ON MAILING LABELS ABOUT YOUR DUES As a convenience for members who still receive their CSMD Did you know that the CSMD pays a proscribed assessment for information by regular mail, you’ll notice that your mailing label each member to the GSMD? Starting in 2016, the assessment now includes your Canadian and General Society identification is $15 per member, an increase of $4 from assessments levied numbers, together with information on the status of your paid in recent years. The assessment comes from the dues that each dues. You need your General Society membership number when member pays. The Canadian Society depends on membership you register for members’ only access to the General Society dues and other donations to operate. website and to sign up for the General Society email newsletter, both of which we strongly encourage, if you use email. The deadline for 2016 CSMD dues of $45 per member is No- Note: If you received your newsletter by mail and the envelope vember 30, 2015. We thank everyone who has renewed their has a mailing label reading Paid 2015, this means your 2016 support of our Society. If you haven’t heard from us (several dues have not been paid. See elsewhere in this newsletter for reminders have gone out), this means you’re paid up. If you details on how to pay. received this newsletter by regular mail, your mailing label will tell you the status of your dues. Dues can be paid HELP WANTED: by PayPal, cheque or money order payable to CSMD. The latter RECORDING SECRETARY AND A CAPTAIN should be mailed to the Treasurer, Maureen McGee, at 1060 Ewert St, Prince George BC V2M 2P2. The CSMD needs your help. Our Board of Assistants needs a recording secretary and a captain. Please consider volunteering for one of these positions. We appreciate everyone’s ongoing support of our Society. HISTORIAN’S REPORT CSMD NEW MEMBER FEES (NON REFUNDABLE) In approaching the end of our first year as the CSMD Historian Team after Nathan assumed the Historian’s role on October 17, Application fees: $20 (CAD); Lineage review: $75 (US) which 2015 the ebb and flow of inquiries, correspondence and accompanies your application when it is sent to the GSMD applications - along with the administration they necessitate - Historian General in Plymouth for approval. Family member have continued. We have noted that all is not linear; there are application fee: $75 (US). many peaks and valleys to all that is done whether it be the Supplemental line fee: $30 (CAD) after lineage review, $75 number of e-mails that go out and are received in any given (US) when your application is sent to the GSMD Historian week or applications that are approved within a year. However, General in Plymouth for approval. the one constant is the high level of interest of all and sundry who would be Mayflower Descendants.
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