I'm open for suggestions. Can any kind soul lend a hand? The other day, I received the Preliminary Application for membership in the Mayflower society: My ancestry goes like this: JOHN ALDEN married to PRISCILLA MULLINS ELIZABETH ALDEN married to William Pabodie REBECCA PABODIE married to William Southworth ELIZABETH SOUTHWORTH married to David Little (David Little was a descendent of RICHARD WARREN, another Mayflower passenger) ELIZABETH LITTLE married to Deacon Joseph Otis MERCY OTIS married to Lt. Perrin Ross (killed 7/3/1778 at the Wyoming Valley Massacre, Wilkes-Barre, PA) JOHN ROSS married to Elizabeth Terry OTIS ROSS married to Harriet Devine JULIET ROSS, born 1853, died 1910 married to Christopher George Featherbay LE ROY ARTHUR FEATHERBAY b. August, 1873, died June, 1953 married to Bridget (Agnes) Kernen, 2/17/1898 MARGARET FEATHERBAY B. 9/3/1901 Married to Patrick Aloysius Harvey June 1921 died ?????? JAMES CALLEN (nee Harvey - adopted, 1945) B. 1/31/1925, married Teresa Stewart 7/19/1952 died 10/21/1989 Then me. Now, they say they want documentation from Mercy Otis Ross on down, but I don't know where I can get that old paperwork. Does anyone have suggestions? An LDS Family History Center, perhaps? Thanks, Terry C Southern NJ

***-----Original Message----- ***From: TCall2000@aol.com [mailto:TCall2000@aol.com] ***Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 5:52 PM ***To: MAYFLOWER-L@rootsweb.com ***Subject: [MFLR] Joining Mayflower Society *** *** ***I'm open for suggestions. Can any kind soul lend a hand? *** ***The other day, I received the Preliminary Application for ***membership in the ***Mayflower society: ***ELIZABETH LITTLE *** married to Deacon Joseph Otis *** ***MERCY OTIS *** married to Lt. Perrin Ross *** (killed 7/3/1778 at the ***Wyoming Valley *** Massacre, Wilkes-Barre, PA) ***Now, they say they want documentation from Mercy Otis Ross on ***down, but I ***don't know where I can get that old paperwork. *** ***Does anyone have suggestions? An LDS Family History Center, perhaps? *** ***Thanks, *** ***Terry C ***Southern NJ There's an article in the New England Historic Genealocical Register, "The Two Joseph Otises of Barnstable: 1780-1790" by Anne Borden Harding 118:127 ff, which if you haven't seen you might find useful. It might give you some leads as to places to start, and perhaps those places would lead to more. Maybe you would want to consult with your state historian as to what might be acceptable if primary sources are unavailable for the more distant past generations. My local FHC has been a great place for me--the online catalog of the Family History Library is a convenient means of finding what records they have and which of those can be rented. You probably know this, but in addition to films of primary sources there are also many published family genealogies and unpublished manuscripts on film or fiche available through the FHL. If you're lucky someone may have done much of this already and it may be on an unpublished manuscript that's on microform at the FHL. I don't know if there's a DAR file for Perrin Ross down through your line, and the old ones can be suspect, but you could always try there for leads.