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So You Want to be a Mayflower Descendant - West Lineage - part 8

 Unbelievably, things seem to be progressing. For the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival, the Society has put its members' applications online, so if you want to apply, you should first look to see if anyone in your family already has.  Then, say, if someone has already proved descent down to, say, your great-grandmother, all you have to do is prove your descent from your great-grandmother. (see West and Presbury-Mayflower Pedigree charts)  Plimoth Patuxet Museum, 2019 The Mayflower Descendants Through Five Generations , known as the Silver Books, document from passenger Richard Warren to his great-great-granddaughter Mary Presbury and her husband Thomas West.  Since they lived in the early 1700s, surely some of their descendants have applied.  Their oldest child, William West, is well-documented in many records, from his birth on Martha's Vineyard to his immigration to Nova Scotia to being a founding father in Kings County.  Since William and his...