2011 SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY – NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI 2011 Spring General Assembly Was Held in Natchez May 20 and 21. Friday, May 20, 2011 6:00 P.M. – Cocktails and Dinner at The House on Ellicott Hill Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:00 A.M. – Welcome Party at The Prentiss Club at 10:00 A.M. 12:00 Noon – Luncheon at The Eola Hotel at 12 noon After Lunch – Tour of Texada The Prentiss Club Texada The Eola Hotel House on Ellicott Hill

SPRING 2010 MEETING The Spring meeting was held in Natchez, Mississippi, June 5th, 2010. The Welcome Party was held at Sweet Auburn, the home of Charlotte and Marlon Copeland. The meeting and lunch was held at The Carriage House in Natchez. Despite periods of rain in the morning, attendance was very good and spirits were in no way dampened. Governor General Joan McLemore presided at the business meeting and also presented the program. A special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Copeland for their hospitality and opening their home to our organization.

REMINDER Dues for 2010-2011 are due beginning July 1, 2010. All dues are to be mailed to the Natchez office and the amount of annual dues is $35.00. Lifetime memberships are $500.00. Please inform the Natchez Office of any address change or change of name due to marriage or divorce. Please help the office keep up to date with deaths of members and if you are aware of any whose name has not been in Tracing Our Lines under Members Who Have Passed Away please inform the office.

REGISTER III Register III, the genealogical records for members #827-#1268, can be purchased from the OFFM Office, Post Office Box 821, Natchez, MS 39121-0821. The cost of Register III is $65 which includes shipping. OFFM members receive a 10% discount on this price. OFFM member’s cost is $58.50. In addition to the membership information for numbers above, Register III has the following information: History General Council 1991-2009 Honorary Governors General Award of Meritorious Service Cotillion Membership Roster through #1298 Approved Ancestor List through member #1298 and supplementals Please send the following information to the office to order the book. No phone orders please. Please print or type the following information: Click here for print version. NAME: _____________________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS: _________________________________ ____________________________________________________ _____________________________________ZIP____________ OFFM Member?    Yes_____ No_____    Membership # _______ NUMBER OF VOLUMES ORDERED ________ AMOUNT ENCLOSED ____________ Make Checks or Money Orders Payable to: OFFM

HONOR YOUR ANCESTOR(S)! The following guidelines are for the submission of a biographical sketch of an ancestor to be placed on the Order of First Families of Mississippi web site. The biographies will be on the public pages and can be accessed by anyone browsing our web site. Cost without a picture - $20.00; cost with one picture - $30.00 Check is to be payable to OFFM and mailed to the office in Natchez; submission is to be (preferably) e-mailed in Word of RTF format for biography and .jpg format for picture(s) to Frances Williams or printed copy mailed to her. Addresses (e-mail and postal) are on Officers of the Order page accessed at For Members Only. Original submission is limited to 600 words. Any additional information submitted by other member(s) for the same ancestor (and incurring $20.00 fee) can increase total biography to a maximum of 1000 words. Pictures on the biography pages are limited to: Ancestor, ancestor’s children or grandchildren (no more than two generations down from ancestor) Historical place or event in keeping with the decorum of the website and having relevance to the honored ancestor. Each additional picture incurs a $10.00 fee. The biography will be presented exactly as submitted. No editing by the committee or the programmer. Please be careful with grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Pictures on the front page will be only ancestor pictures and will be rotated as we receive three new pictures. Each group of three will remain on the front page for a minimum of two months and then be rotated out for three newer pictures. All pictures will remain with the biographies as long as the web site is maintained. Pictures will be formatted and sized to fit into the frames and space allowed. Placement of the pictures on the front page is at the discretion of the programmer. Please direct any questions regarding the submission of a biography to Frances Williams. (see Contact Information).

NEWSLETTERS NOW ONLINE The Order of the First Families of Mississippi newsletters can now be accessed from the "For Members Only" page of our website. Corresponding printer-friendly versions are accessible from each newsletter.

MISCELLANEOUS An errata sheet will be prepared and mailed to all registered owners of Register III. Please send corrections to the information in Register III to Wendy Cartwright. Supplemental application’s fee is now $40.00 per supplemental.

The Order of the First Families of Mississippi:  1699-1817 P. O. Box 821  —  Natchez MS  39121  —  601.442.0018