It must be the end of the year, because I got another charity solicitation in the mail yesterday, this one to support a new facility the Martha's Vineyard Museum is building in Vineyard Haven (Tisbury.) It is rehabbing the old Marine Hospital there and adding new structures, enlarging greatly the organization's physical facilities, including an expanded research library for genealogists and historians. They will retain their older, smaller building in Edgartown, the Cooke House, although they will sell a piece of their real estate there and presumably run just the house itself as a tourist destination rather than a research facility.
Old-time families on Martha's Vineyard did not have many Mayflower descendants, but someone might have married into your mainland Mayflower line, as happened with my Freetown ancestors, and you will have to prove them as well. (The GSMD wants you to prove as much about the non line-carrier as you do the line-carrier, and wants proof of all marriages, not just the one that produced you and your line.) Here is how you can donate: online at www.TransformMVM.org; by phone at 508-627-4441, Ext. 117; or by mail at MVM, PO Box 1310, Edgartown, MA 02539. Please be generous.
Old-time families on Martha's Vineyard did not have many Mayflower descendants, but someone might have married into your mainland Mayflower line, as happened with my Freetown ancestors, and you will have to prove them as well. (The GSMD wants you to prove as much about the non line-carrier as you do the line-carrier, and wants proof of all marriages, not just the one that produced you and your line.) Here is how you can donate: online at www.TransformMVM.org; by phone at 508-627-4441, Ext. 117; or by mail at MVM, PO Box 1310, Edgartown, MA 02539. Please be generous.
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