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Buckeye Mayflower Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Ohio www.ohiomayflower.org Volume 36 Issue 1 March 2018 A message from our Governor Inside this issue: Leadership 2 Since our Compact Day meengs in November (which I hope contact into you aended), our Ohio Society Board of Assistants (BOA) has not met. However, work has been going on behind the scenes. Celebrang 4 Membership The Execuve Commiee of the BOA met in Belleville in January. Issues such as changing our Historian’s posion and The gi of 5 providing some financial aid to aendees of GSMD annual Genealogy meengs were discussed. State Assembly 6 The Finance Commiee, with SMDOH Captain Thomas Informaon Bradford as Chairman, has been working on a budget for 2018‐ Mayflower 7 2019. The budget will be ready in me for our March 10th BOA History meeng. The commiee is waing for various officers and Pilgrim 8 commiees to inform them of their projected financial needs Meenghouse for their 2018‐2019 tasks. Scholarship 10 The 2020 Commiee is in full gear preparing for our Ohio Celebraon. Each of the five Ohio Winner colonies is parcipang in the preparaons under the leadership of Chairman, Beth Anderson, of Cincinna Colony. Tasks are assigned and a reporng schedule is in place. 2020 Hindsight 11 At this me, I ancipate that all members of the Ohio Society will be vong this spring on changes to our bylaws. The first change to be considered is adjusng the historian’s posion to make the Colony 12 Chronicles workload more manageable. The second item concerns reopening life membership in Ohio. Your BOA voted unanimously on the laer but the issue must go before our general membership to Calendar of 15 become a reality. Events On February 10th, I parcipated in a book donaon ceremony at the Dayton Metropolitan Library. SMDOH donated every GSMD lineage book in print to the library’s genealogical collecon. Beth Anderson of Cincinna Colony, our 2020 chairman, arranged every aspect of the donaon. Several members of the Cincinna Colony and the Montgomery County Genealogical Society were there to show their support. Each of our colonies will be meeng this spring. Informaon on meeng dates and places can be found elsewhere in this issue of the Buckeye Mayflower. All are welcome to aend meengs held by any colony. I encourage all of you to seriously consider responding posively to our annual meeng invitaon. It will take place in Cleveland on May 18th and 19th and will feature a great speaker from Plymouth. 2020 will be here soon and I encourage increased parcipaon by all of our members, their children, and friends. If you haven’t already, spend a few minutes this winter/spring to check out our newly designed website at www.ohiomayflower.org Sandra Carkin St. Martin, Governor Page 2 The Buckeye Mayflower BOARD OF ASSISTANTS IN THE STATE OF OHIO Sandra St. Marn, Governor Lee Marn, Assistant Historian [email protected] buckeyemayfl[email protected] Betsie Goad, Deputy Governor Patricia Hall, Recording Secretary mayfl[email protected] [email protected] Thomas Bradford, Captain Dr Elizabeth Finley‐Belgrad, Surgeon [email protected] [email protected] Mary Chase, Treasurer Vickie Heineck, Corresponding Secretary OHMayfl[email protected] [email protected] Margo Broehl, Counselor Dr. Donald Nichols, Assistant General [email protected] [email protected] Ann Gulbransen, Historian David Foster, Elder OHMayfl[email protected] [email protected] COLONY LEADERSHIP Cincinna Janice Kleinline, BOA Representave [email protected] Shaun Smith, Lt. Governor [email protected] Toledo Susan Fisher, Lt. Governor Beth Anderson, BOA Representave [email protected] p1620mayfl[email protected] Heather Reichert, BOA Representave Cleveland [email protected] Vicky Heineck, Lt. Governor Western Reserve [email protected] Jill Parker, Lt. Governor Jonathan D. Miller, BOA Representave [email protected] [email protected] E. Paul Morehouse, BOA Representave Columbus [email protected] Sharon Hendershot, Lt. Governor [email protected] Shaun Smith, Webmaster Mary Chase, Scholarship Chair [email protected] [email protected] Ann Gulbransen, Newsleer Editor Todd Reel, Jr. Membership Coordinator OHMayfl[email protected] [email protected] Page 3 The Buckeye Mayflower HISTORIAN’S CORNER Since our last newsleer in mid December, we have welcomed 13 new members. One addional new member has transferred in from another member Society, two members have been reinstated and 5 supplementals have been approved. The full list of new members will be printed in the June newsleer. We have also welcomed 15 new junior members. Our Junior member coordinator and his family will be moving to a new house someme in early March. If you are waing to send a junior member applicaon to Todd, you might want to download a new applicaon from www.ohiomayflower.org so you have the new address. Do you love genealogy? Would you like to contribute a few hours to help your Society bring in new members? There are only two of us working on applicaons for new members and we need help! We are looking for one or more members in each Colony who can assist prospecve members with their applicaons. We are not expecng these volunteers to do research (unless they want to do so), but to help point prospecve members to documentaon resources, help them evaluate if they have really gathered everything they need and to put their applicaon together correctly. We send out the submission instrucons to every applicant, but it never ceases to amaze me how many applicants do not follow them! We will provide all the training you need to be able to help our Mayflower cousins. If you would like to help us by being a local resource, please let me know at ohmayfl[email protected]. We have a lot of applicaons in play as I write this on March 4th. Applicaons in Plymouth: 62 Waing for documentaon: 28 Waing for signed applicaons: 8 Waing for other family members: 3 Waing for previous supplementals: 3 Not yet reviewed: 1 Turnaround in Plymouth is running about 3 1/2 months. There is such a large volume of applicaons being submied, that the verifier staff is struggling to catch up. Lee and I will have a table in the vendor hall at the annual conference of the Ohio Genealogical Society in April at the Columbus Hya Regency. The meeng is April 12‐14, You can download the conference brochure and registraon form at www.ogs.org. If you are going to be at the conference, please stop by and say hello. I always like to put faces with names! If you would like to take a turn at our table to promote your Society, we would love to have you. If you know now that you want to help, please email me at the address above. You can also just stop by and offer to help out! Ann Fox Gulbransen, Historian [email protected] Page 4 The Buckeye Mayflower CELEBRATING MEMBERSHIP Membership Milestones September 2017‐February 2018 Years since elecon to membership! Cincinna Colony Columbus Colony James Hughes ‐ 45 years Brent Elston ‐ 40 years Meredith Weber ‐ 30 years Rebecca Zink ‐ 40 years Vincent Capasso ‐ 20 years Eva Hughes ‐ 30 years Lisa Cravens‐Brown ‐ 30 years Cleveland Colony Emma Burkhardt ‐ 30 years Alice Harrison ‐ 40 years Debra Wood, 20 years Elizabeth Barnhouse ‐ 40 years John Hammond ‐ 20 years Walter Harwood ‐ 40 years Sco Hammond ‐ 20 years Laureen Steele ‐ 40 years Susan Johnston ‐ 20 years Jerold Bruce ‐ 35 years Michael Miller ‐ 20 years John Penty ‐ 35 years Leslie Price ‐ 20 years Catherine Hammond ‐ 35 years James Whitehead ‐ 35 years Toledo Colony Linda Miller ‐ 30 years Helen Smolinsky ‐ 40 years Constance Brion ‐ 30 years Clarabelle Bothe ‐ 20 years Leigh Brewster ‐ 25 years Marcia Hickey ‐ 20 years Robert Brewster ‐ 25 years Barbara Lockyer ‐ 20 years Western Reserve Colony Michal Barnes ‐ 20 years Donald Nichols ‐ 20 years Jeffrey Taussig ‐ 20 years Lee Marn ‐ 20 years Ann Zarnas ‐ 20 years Patrick Corbus ‐ 20 years You never know where sharing your Mayflower Heritage may lead… I didn’t do a generic Christmas leer this year, but instead wrote short notes to out of town friends. But I think next year I will do a leer to everyone. Why? The Mayflower Society and genealogy! I menoned my involvement in preparing for “2020” to a long me special friend…we stay in touch at Christmas and have seen each other just once in the past 47 years! She was, in fact, the wonderful teacher under whom I did my student teaching. What memories I have…I’m sure we both have. Anyway, in my Christmas card to her I menoned my involvement in the Mayflower Society and 2020 acvies. In her card and leer she menoned that her family history has her descended from William White. I called immediately! We chaed and promised that aer the first of the year we would get together to see what she has; apparently the grandmother was quite the genealogist so I am hopeful and opmisc. In our conversaon she said that she had menoned the William White connecon because of my menoning of my Mayflower involvement and she was hoping that her genealogical journey just might be re‐started! I’m sure it has been. We will get together in 2018 to re‐ignite her Mayflower research! Jill Parker, Western Reserve Colony Page 5 The Buckeye Mayflower The Gi of Genealogy Merchandise Corner When I menon Genealogy, historical events and a fih great Order your Ohio Pins today grandmother, family member’s eyes begin to roll. But seriously and show your Mayflower it really is a gi that honors the past, celebrates the present and enlightens future generaons.
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