Membership Benefits

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 our newsletter "Evergreen Log", published three (3) times per year.

Members also receive copies of the Mayflower Quarterly published by the General Mayflower Society of Massachusetts. Subscriptions to the Mayflower Quarterly are available to non-members at an annual rate of $15.00 US.

The Washington Mayflower Society holds two luncheon Meetings with historical educational speakers, and one Summer Picnic Meeting annually for members, spouses, junior members, guests, visitors and prospective members. Meetings are held on Sunday.

As a member of the General Mayflower Society and the Washington State Mayflower Society you may purchase Mayflower Insignia items that may be worn at meetings. Other items are also available, such as clocks, glass ornaments, silk ties and a scarf. Insignia items worn on the ribbon should only be worn at a Mayflower Meeting or when a Mayflower Member is representing the Mayflower Society at an event. Further info is available in the General Society's Mayflower Insignia Etiquette booklet.

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 passengers came on the Mayflower. Mayflower "cousins" in the Washington Mayflower Society may be found here.

Through the programs of the Society, common history can be made to come alive. And if you choose to 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 establishment of their genealogical lines.

One more benefit of membership in the Mayflower Society is use of the beautiful Mayflower Emblem designed to be placed on a Mayflower member's grave stone. Many years in the future when a descendant of yours visits your grave or views a picture of your grave stone, they can find this Mayflower Emblem and then they will learn they, too are a Mayflower descendant.