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Mayflower Society genealogy review panel?

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 2:09AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am going to make a submission with additional evidence to the Mayflower Society about a supplemental ancestor whose lineage is recorded incorrectly on my line. Does anyone know the process for doing this? My email to my local state historian has bounced back undelivered. Do I send it to my chapter historian to send on to Plymouth or can I send it directly to Plymouth and if so how do I address it?

Re: Mayflower Society genealogy review panel?

Posted: 19 Nov 2013 3:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Have you checked the GSMD web site to be sure that you have the correct information for your state historian?

You could send it to the Historian General in Plymouth, but it might take him some time to get back to you - Paul seems to be pretty busy these days.

Paul Bumpus, Historian General
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants
P.O. Box 3297
Plymouth, MA 02361-3297
(508) 746-3188
historiangeneral@themayflowersociety.com

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net

Re: Mayflower Society genealogy review panel?

Posted: 19 Nov 2013 7:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for your reply Dale and for Paul's title and address. I have emailed my state historian only recently prior to this. Then I got messages first that my message was delayed then that her email address was not accepting any messages. Maybe her inbox is swamped. I have corresponded with her before about this ancestor and her reply has been that while the GSMD are always looking for original evidence to support new lines that in my case since this ancestor is written in the 'Silver Books' it will be near impossible to get them to change their minds. So I'm not confident she will be proactive on my submission.

Re: Mayflower Society genealogy review panel?

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:56AM GMT
Classification: Query
One course of action would be to send a message to silverbooks@themayflowersociety.com and ask how to submit a documented correction to a Silver Book, if that is the source of the error.

It certainly is not "near impossible to get them to change their minds." Revisions to the Silver Books are constantly being published. They are frequently seen as articles in Mayflower Descendant, because it is the scholarly journal of Mayflower research. Volumes sometimes have gone into new printings with an addendum, giving corrections that have not yet been incorporated into the body of the work. Some of the older volumes are in their third edition, each new edition incorporating revisions to the previous edition.

That said, it is easier to get a Silver Book revision reviewed and incorporated if one is an already published Mayflower scholar. Which volume are you concerned with? I may be able to offer additional suggestions, depending upon the person currently in charge of that volume.

Another possibility would be to allow me to review your work, as I have the ear of HG Paul Bumpus. We have been corresponding by email for nearly a decade. We have recently been corresponding on an entirely different subject, but I daresay that if I find your argument compelling (and I would be willing to help you try to make it most compelling) it might be easier to have me recommend to Paul that he should examine and consider your correction.

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net

Re: Mayflower Society genealogy review panel?

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 7:29PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Dale,

Thank you so much for your input and feedback. Can I correspond with you further by email? My email is dewright@internode.on.net. Thanks.

Re: Mayflower Society genealogy review panel?

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 12:53AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bumpas
Just started doing the family tree for my mother as a gift. Knowing only that she left the Cape as a teen but remembers her grandparents having a lot of land and bogs. The ancestry hints have lead to a few Mayflower passengers excited and surprised don't know where to start. But reading these boards I noticed the historian is/was Paul Bumpas.
That is the name that came up the most in my tree wondering if there is a connection,
3greatgrandmother Huldah Atwood Bumpas/Mathias Long
Daughter of Ansel Bumpas/Emaline Bumpas.

Chris

Re: Mayflower Society genealogy review panel?

Posted: 14 Jun 2015 2:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Paul spells his surname Bumpus, as do most family members, although Bompasse, Bumpas, Bump, and other variants are sometimes seen, especially before standardized spelling.

The Bumpus family is widely seen throughout southeastern Massachusetts. Immigrant Edward Bumpas came on Fortune 1621, lived at Plymouth, Duxbury and Marshfield, was a purchaser of Dartmouth in 1652, ans was granted land at "Pochade necke neare unto Namassakett" in 1664. For perhaps the definitive account of Edward, his wife, and their children, see:

Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants To New England 1620-1633," 3 Volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) at 1:273-276.

For a discussion of the early generations of the family, see:

Mrs. John E. (Florence Harlow) Barclay, "The Bumpus Family of New England" (The American Genealogist, 43 (1967):65-75, 150-155, 211-216; Corrections 44 (1968):232-235; 64 (1989):112).

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net
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