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Membership Privileges

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The current privileges are:
# <ol type="I"> <li>Access to items in the SocietySociet's library [[Library]] of over 20,000 items, including books, journals, maps, pamphlets, prints, videos, photographs, etc. (Note: Access presently requires advance notice.);</li># <li>Research and photocopying services are available if a member cannot visit the library Library in person; these services are provided to members at a 20% discount;</li># <li>Subscription to the official journal of the Society, ''The [[Augustan Omnibus ]]'' at a reduced rate through their membership; (Note: the subscription is now included with regular member dues.)</li># <li>May order at a 20% discount previous issues of all journals offered for sale, including::# <ol type="i"> <li>''The [[Augustan]]''</li>:# <li>''The [[Augustan Omnibus]]''</li>:# Augustæum <li>''[[August<em>&aelig;um]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Chivalry]]''</li>:# <li>''The [[Colonial Genealogist]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Eastern & amp; Central European Genealogist]]''</li>:# <li>''The [[English Genealogist]]''</li>:# <li>''[[French Genealogist]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Genealogical Library Journal]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Germanic Genealogist]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Heraldry]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Irish-American Genealogist]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Italian Genealogist]]''</li>:# <li>''The [[Journal of Ancient & amp; Medieval Studies]]''</li>:# <li>''The [[Journal of Ancient Egyptian Studies]]''</li>:# <li>''The [[Journal of Heraldic Studies]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Journal of Royal & amp; Noble Genealogy]]''</li>:# Nordmændene <li>''[[Nordm&aelig;ndene</em> (Scandinavian studies)]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Scottish-American Genealogist]]''</li>:# <li>''[[Spanish-American Genealogist]]''</li> </ol> </li># <li>May receive a 20% discount on other items purchased from our headquartersHeadquarters, and also items offered for sale on our web sitewebsite, [http://store.augustansociety.orgstore.augustansociety.org];</li># <li>May request a free listing of the contents of ''The [[Augustan ]'' from Volume &nbsp;VII, Number &nbsp;2, and from all other publications listed above; <em>(Note: The contents of each issue are listed in the Online Storeat [http://store.augustansociety.org store.augustansociety.org].)</em></li># <li>Members may join any of the more than sixty committees Committees of the Society which cater to the special interests of the membership;</li># <li>Qualifying members may be elected [[Fellowship|Fellows of The Augustan Society, Inc.]];</li># <li>Qualifying Fellows may be appointed to membership in the [[Order of the Augustan Eagle]];</li># <li>Qualifying members may be received as members of the [[Noble Company of the Rose]];</li># <li>Members may obtain and wear, following the guides set by the Society, the medal [[Medal of membershipMembership]], miniature medal[[Miniature Medal of Membership]], lapel pin[[Membership Lapel Pin]], rosette[[Society Rosette]]; and the insignia [[Insignia]] available for such subgroups [[Sub-Groups]] as they may have joined;</li># <li>Members may attend the invitational meetings, lectures, classes, and field trips which may be held;</li># <li>Members receive all mailings from the Society at first class, and for those overseas, by air;</li># <li>Members may [[Arms Registration|register their personal coat of arms]], that of an ancestor, corporate arms, or a badge or armorial banner with the Society at a price discounted by 20%;</li># <li>From time to times coats of arms registered with the Society are selected for inclusion in a published roll ''[[Roll of arms Arms]]'' (three published to date, and one in preparation, each of approximately 100 arms), hardbound, with arms registered by members being given priority in selection for each rollRoll;</li># <li>Members may obtain at a 20% discount copies of the Study Kits of the [[Descents from Antiquity project]] Study Group, which is a conjectural first effort project showing descent from antiquity to the present;</li># <li>Members receive free advice on a wide variety of topics from genealogical research strategies, heraldic usage, Orders of Chivalry and knighthood, historical research in many topic areas, and in most all related areas;</li># <li>Members may obtain reprints of articles appearing in many of our publications at a 20% discount (over 500 reprints are currently available from stock; this is an expanding project and additional reprints are added periodically);</li># <li>Members may have copying services at a 20% discount;</li># <li>Members may submit free inquiries for publication which are directed to the appropriate publication;</li># <li>Members manuscripts will have priority for publication in the journals published by the Society;</li># <li>Members may vote and hold office in the Society;</li># <li>Members may borrow <em>some </em> books, periodicals, and videos for home use, with the permission of the Society [[Librarian]];</li># <li>Members are accorded the postnominal initials “FAS” &ldquo;FAS&rdquo; if they are [[Fellowship|Fellows of the Society]]; or the postnominal initials “OAE” &ldquo;OAE&rdquo; if they are members of the [[Order of the Augustan Eagle]];</li># <li>Members receive a membership card and a handsome certificate of membership suitable for framing. (All of the pendant groups of the Society also issue membership certificates.);</li># <li>Members wishing recognition of membership in a chivalric order my do so at a 92.5% discount for the first three such recognitions, and an 80% discount for subsequent recognitions;</li># <li>Members wishing recognition of a royal or noble title, or of personal nobility, may do so at a 20% discount;</li># <li>Members may take justifiable pride in belonging to a distinguished international Society.</li></ol>
The privileges listed above are those of Regular, Life, and Honorary Members of the Society (they do not apply to subscribers).
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