Kudos to Valeria for taking the initiative with the Cooke Society and putting out some feelers. I hope all you Cooke descendants will show your support and contact her. Gini's idea about the Hopkins descendants getting together for dinner at the next Congress of the Mayflower Society got me thinking - the next Congress is in Sept 2005 in Plymouth and since there are so many members in town for the Congress, this is the time when most family societies hold their meetings. If anyone is interested in helping to form a society, why not do the preliminary work as Valeria is doing, get a few people together, let our list know and put some blurbs in the journals (MD, MQ) to find out how much interest there is and if you DO get enough interest, you will then have others to help you plan a meeting or dinner for those descendants in 2005. This gives you lots of time to think about what needs to be done and advertise. If just one descendant from this list acted as a contact for their Mayflower family - that's all it would be initially, just put out some queries - who knows? By Sept. 2005 perhaps we could have all the families represented with societies and the meeting held in Plymouth could be their charter meeting... Brown, Chilton, Hopkins, More, Mullins, Priest, Samson, Standish and Tilly are left (I suppose some would say Chilton is covered under Winslow, and Mullins & Tilley under Alden and Howland). If anyone is interested in being a family contact and needs a little help to get the ball rolling, let me know privately and I'll do whatever I can. Susan E. Roser www.rootsweb.com/~canms/canada.html