Maryland Society News Archive

Spring Bulletin 2005

(L-R) Ms Betty Bradway and PGG Granville Wehland

Maryland's Treasurer, Granville W. Wehland, a Past Governor General and Chairmain of Volume Five of the “Register”, presents a copy to Ms. Betty Bradway, Historian General of the Society of Mayflower Descendants on behalf of the Order in grateful appreciation of that Society’s aid to the Order and the storage space the Society of Mayflower Descendants provided over the many years in their library in Plymouth, MA for the books and documents of the Order.

Fall Bulletin 2002

Looking for ways to build awareness - and support in the regional community of institutions having books and records of interest to aspirants of The Order, the Maryland Society has begun a program to carry that out. Admittedly, the program titled the Maryland Society Library Alliance Program, has no comprehensive plan at this point and some actions have had no apparent effect, but this approach has promise for improving the quality of worksheet documentation, thereby speeding the process to validate and register new Associates, to make many people and societies aware of the Order and to support one of our primary sources of information, the libraries with genealogical resources.

The Kuethe Genealogical Library in Glen Burnie, Maryland, is the initial participant in our program. Three knowledgeable members of the volunteer staff attended one of our meetings and spoke about the library, its resources and mentioned some things they thought The Order could do for and with them. They were very interested to have a copy of Colket and our Register. They mentioned that Associates applications and documentation could be copied and added to their manuscript resources. They opened the door for mutual activities.

On our part, we placed in the Library a small sign calling attention to the Order, naming contact, our Secretary, and copies of recent Bulletin issues. By the time this reaches you, we will have conducted jointly their annual “Research Center Seminar”, a surprisingly well attended event in recent years. Our Registrar will be one of the speakers and Associates will be present to answer questions and encourage interest. The Seminar flyers, with prominent recognition for the Order, will have been distributed to over 150 public institutions in the five county region between Washington and Baltimore. The web site will be up through November.