Figuring out whether you're a descendant of a Pilgrim is now just a mouse click away.A monthslong effort to digitize and index the authenticated genealogies of Mayflower passengers has been completed ...

Are you related to one of America's first immigrants? A new "Pilgrim database" from the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants will let you know for ...

BOSTON — It is estimated that there are more than 35 million living descendants of the Pilgrims around the world. Proving family connections to this group used to be a daunting task, but no longer.

PLYMOUTH — New England Historic Genealogical Society has partnered with General Society of Mayflower Descendants to bring genealogical resources to their members ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Four hundred years ago, a group of 102 passengers and a crew of roughly 35 set sail from Plymouth, England in September 1620 aboard the Mayflower to establish a colony in the New ...

Walter Louis Powell, Ph.D., was named executive director of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants and began work July 15 at the Society’s headquarters in Plymouth. As part of a strong reform ...

As an emergency room nurse, Barbara Merrick well understands that there is much in life more important than joining the Society of Mayflower Descendants. Nonetheless, in her avocation as historian of ...

For most of us, the Pilgrims are figures of legend and lore, vaguely remembered from elementary school lessons as those people who arrived from England on the Mayflower almost 400 years ago and had ...

The Mayflower landed in November 1620, with 102 passengers and 30 crew members who were seeking religious freedom in what became Massachusetts. It was farther north than their planned destination, the ...

BOSTON (AP) — Figuring out whether you’re a descendant of a Pilgrim is now just a mouse click away. A monthslong effort to digitize and index the authenticated genealogies of Mayflower passengers has ...