Application Instructions
These instructions are to help you understand the application process. After hearing from the Historian regarding your submission of the Preliminary Application Form, you will be provided with a formal application worksheet. When the worksheet is completed, you return it together with two copies of documentation. If the documentation is accepted, a final application will be filled out and sent to you to sign. The final application together with one set of documents is sent to the Historian General. If acceptable, the approved lineage papers will be returned for your election into the General and Washington Societies of Mayflower Descendants.
Applicants are expected to present documentation, proving the line-carrier in each generation. Full documentation for spouses is also required, because they are an important part of each generation. An applicant proving his or her connection to a previously approved lineage must supply the necessary documents for each generation showing proof of parentage for the line-carrier and all available information for the spouse. Documentation that was not provided for a previously approved lineage (regardless of when it was approved) will be required when new applications are made on that same line. "Documentation" is different from "statements of fact." It comprises copies of legal and civil records made at the time of the event. As far as practicable, proof of lineage should be documented by primary sources. Use of pertinent primary sources guarantees an approval. Lineage dependent upon secondary sources may or may not be acceptable. Secondary material may be used to supplement the primary source material. Here are some examples of the types of documentation that may be used in the Mayflower Society Application.
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants now requires full documentation of the last three (3) generations (yourself, your parents and your grandparents) including spouses.
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