AMAZING MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS : TAYLOR SWIFT IS ONE OF THEM : HUMPHREY BOGART : KATHERINE HEPBURN : MARILYN MONROE : SEE THIS LIST!

United States Presidents, an astronaut, and many who went into acting and so many more; up to 3 million Americans! You can see why you just might qualify for the Mayflower Society; the odds may be in your favor! This site design was so much fun. You put your pointer on the photo and it flips to information!

AMERICAN ANCESTORS: MAYFLOWER PASSENGER LISTS  Click on the name of the passenger and read a small bio via the New England Historic Genealogical Society.  Other ships arrived to the colony and brought more people.  Not all passengers were pilgrims by the way. Then click to photos of present-day descendants.  These people are in Great Britain as well as the United States.

By the first winter half the original settlers had died.  Native Americans must have been keeping track of the new settlers. One Chief needed allies to fight with other tribes so a deal was made and this deal helped people survive. 

JAMESTOWN... ROANOKE... AND THEN THE PILGRIMS : HOW THEY MADE IT

The earliest American history is that of the Native Americans or pre-Colonial. Then Columbus and the Spanish explorers, then early colonies of the English, Dutch... Of course, there's a possibility that many others made it to our shores through migration, exploration, and ship wrecks.

I thought this video by the World History Channel was well made and interesting... 

The Pilgrims were religious Christians who were in conflict with the Protestant Church of England. They fled due to religious prosecution. King James gave permission for them to establish a colony in Virginia and Virginia was a great expanse at the time including parts of what is Pennsylvania and North Carolina today. William Bradford, one of those passengers on the ship named the Mayflower, left a journal and so we know a lot about their voyage... They departed weeks late and their provision ship, the Speedwell, leaked so they went on without it. They bravely went to an unknown country, going onshore far from their original notions of a destination and faced a harsh winter climate. They had not landed in Virginia at all.

THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS : SILVER BOOK PROJECT

https://themayflowersociety.org/ featuring genealogy tips, and much more.... Have you heard you're a Mayflower passenger descendant. Is this the time to find out for sure?

SILVER BOOK PROJECT


Excerpt: Today, there are twenty-two volumes of the Silver Books with multiple parts that make up the forty-two book catalog. Volumes One, Two, and Five have been superseded and are no longer in print. The Mayflower Society publishes all the Silver Books which are for sale in the The Mayflower Society store and on the website. The fifth generation is digitized, indexed, and available on the New England Historic Genealogical Society website in a database called Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880.The Silver Books Project team consists of researchers, reviewers, and editors. They are skilled genealogists and writers that analyze complex genealogical problems and time periods where various records may or may not be available. When vital records aren’t available, other sources are used to link the generations together.

There are various volumes being revised and updated at any given point. The goal is to publish research on all families through generation seven, naming generation eight. Some volumes have not been updated for decades, but we plan to address every family. It takes many hours of research to complete a book, often years in the making.

For an idea imagined in 1959, the project is still going strong with more and more books added every year. Little did they know they were creating one of the crowning jewels of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. It’s a privilege to be a small part of this decades-old endeavor.

400 YEARS AGO THE PILGRIMS LANDED IN AMERICA - THE MAYFLOWER SOCIETY

MAYFLOWER SOCIETY and 400th ANNIVERSARY in 2020

A friend of mine got a message regarding a DNA test she'd taken a couple years ago.  She hadn't checked her account in some time.  A man wrote that she might be related to a passenger on the Mayflower as he is related to her and he tested that he's a descendent of one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact,  Richard Warren who was married to Elizabeth Walker.

Uncanny!

Preliminary reading on the Internet:  this man and woman had the largest family and there may be thousands related to them at this point.  Genealogical there is some controversy and revisions.

There will be celebrations and do so hope that these can go on since we are in a plague time.

Here's the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC on CELEBRATIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEANS