Both signed the Mayflower Compact. Family mourns loss of mother, 41, due to COVID-19 as state reports another 1,700 cases, Sign up for the But he was definitely on it, as were his siblings who all died. We should have a reunion in Plimouth someday! By way of comparison, the combined population of the six New England states is just shy of 15 million. Have visited Plymouth and want to make a return trip to all the burial sites in Massachusetts. There are plenty of tools to help determine if you might be one of the nation’s many Mayflower descendants. John Alden who m. Priscilla Mullins was a carpenter. Town histories and church records are terrific sources as well, and in many cases they have been digitized for easy searching. For my own search, I chose the American Ancestors site from the New England Historical Genealogical Society. Seems there are a lot of us! However, the vast majority of descendants do not share a name with anyone on the list, since only a direct paternal line would have perpetuated the name. I’ve never taken the effort to join the Mayflower Society, but did compile an album of our family’s history including photos and newspaper clippings found after my parents’ deaths. To take a virtual tour of the Mayflower, visit familysearch.org. Offhand I can name seven or eight my sisters and I are proud to descend from but a lot of people have a dozen or more. I never knew my extended family, and grew up on the West Coast, so never thought much about my New England ancestors. I got a crazy hair and just worked all this out, what a weird week to make these connections- Pilgrims! Diane Joerger. Strange thing is, I live in Northern Nevada and started working for a company in Massachusetts Aug. 2019 and will be flying there 3 times a year. But never knew till this article that we number in the millions! I initially saw that her lineage went back to the Mayflower, but my research so far leads me to Jamestown, VA. Peregrine.potter@gmail.com. It’s no longer really acceptable, to simply derive Mayflower lineage from the adult men who signed the Compact. His wife’s name was Mary Kent. Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving on the Fourth Thursday in November | Footnote to History, “Live Free or Die” | The Story of the New Hampshire Motto, Yankee Magazine’s Ultimate New England Winter Guide, Yankee Magazine’s Ultimate New England Summer Guide, 63 Reasons Why We Love the Cape & Islands, Yankee Magazine’s Ultimate Guide to Autumn in New England, Get Rid of Skunk Odor | Methods to Deskunk Your Dog, 10 Prettiest Coastal Towns in New England. Passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley were married in 1623 and had ten children. Marcia..go to 23andme, or Ancestry.com(online)…and follow the directions; send them a sample of spit; send it back with $ and in about 2 mos. “With 10 million people in America that are descended and 35 million worldwide, your chances are pretty good that you may find a line. I do not remember her name or that families name at the moment. I am 14th direct generation from John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. I am definitely going to visit the area to see what I can find on my family. The General Society of Mayflower Descendants lists fifty one Mayflower passengers known to have descendants living today. They both were signers of the Mayflower Compact as well. We MF dez seem to turn up everywhere. newsletter, RootsTech: Digitization project may connect you to a Mayflower passenger, The final religious freedom moves President Trump could make, How a trip to the supermarket kicked off a new allegation of sexual abuse against a former Utah priest, President Nelson ‘humbled’ by response to #GiveThanks, invites all to #LightTheWorld. They both joined the other separatists on board the Mayflower. This summer we visited the Howland home in Plymouth. If you don’t have a direct name connection, start with a line that you suspect has deep New England roots, and see how far you can take it. Me, too! You left my ancestor Richard More. I signed up for a three-month membership for $35 and was quickly overwhelmed (in a good way) by the treasure trove of census records, maps, vital records, property records, journals and newspapers, immigration records, and journals that awaited me. One entire section of the site is devoted specifically to Mayflower genealogies. Many of us grew up hearing a family story about how Ulysses S. Grant or Laura Ingalls Wilder or some other famous person is a distant relative. Hello Julia, I am a direct descendant of Peregrine White, son of William and his wife, Mistress Susanna White. I can be in the DAR if I wish and Mayflower Society. Big mistake to leave him out! Hi Vicki and Jennifer, I too am a direct descendant of Peregrine! When I get home, I’ll have to look at records again. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather John Bill (the “s” was added in the 1750s, it seems) died in Boston in 1638. (Joseph was very wealthy man in the Tin business in England.). Enjoy the stories, nostalgia, and even the few ads with this PDF download for just $5.99. We should have a reunion in Plimouth someday! Recovery remains elusive for many COVID-19 long-haulers. Knowing she had this documentation, I plan on keeping becoming a member and passing it down to future blood line. They have the most descendants of any MF passenger..they had about 10 children! Before this project, the only way to view General Society of Mayflower Descendants records was as a member or with one of the historians, Lea Filson, a former governor general of the Mayflower Society said at RootsTech. Constance Hopkins is my 10th great-grandmother who was 14 years old on the Mayflower voyage from Plymouth u.k with her father Stephen , constances’s step-mother who also gave birth onboard the Mayflower to a son named Oceanus . By reviewing the Mayflower passenger list, descendants can often get their first clue. He was one of the children on the Mayflower and went on to have 6 children. The three partnering organizations started the project in 2017 and announced it last February at RootsTech, the largest family history conference in the world. Several women on the Mayflower married men who arrived on later ships or married men who were just too young to sign the Compact. It’s my understanding that those who came on the Anne were given an acre of land for having come to the new world. The listings are authoritative and organized by surname, which can be a great help or a huge limitation, depending on what information you have already assembled. My mother and her brother (Osborne), both joined the society. Of course there were others. Although I live in San Diego, I’m a New Englander at heart and look forward to news from Yankee magazine. I descend directly from both Thomas Rogers and his son Joseph both of whom were on the Speedwell before it was decided she was too leaky to make the voyage. Both of my father’s parents descend directly from Stephen Hopkins. I descend from 11 of them. His 14-year old younger son Francis almost blew up the Mayflower but later settled down, married and had 8 children. Your list of “22 male passengers” is incomplete. peregrine.potter@gmail.com, Hi Kathryn, Me too! Publications by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. He didn’t have a choice of weather he want to sail on the Mayflower or not. The names slip my memory at the moment. I have since become a history enthusiast. peregrine.potter@gmail.com. I did both of them; 23andme also gives you understanding of your health and diseases that run in your family. There were women aboard the Mayflower, but most were with a male family member. The Mayflower II, a full-scale replica of the Mayflower, is typically on display at Plimoth Plantation. Glad to have found it just before Thanksgiving too! I’ve been researching g for 2 years now. Of course, this doesn’t mean that I won’t find another connection to the Pilgrims who made the great voyage of 1620. All Rights Reserved, Are you a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims? But the ranks of descendants have swelled enormously over many generations. I’m also a descendant of Peregrine Caleb Johnson’s MayflowerHistory.com is a great free starting point, with links to multiple resources. The reason it’s so important to then join the general society is because then you’ve got an authentic, proven, approved lineage in our vault that will be there forever.”. Hi. Both John Alden and John Howland were “strangers” not members of the puritan religion, but hired as craftsmen for the colony. Copyright © 2020 Deseret News Publishing Company. For those who remained in New England, vital records compilations by state are available in print or on microfilm that should allow you to gradually cross-reference your way to a connected family tree. Of the surviving passengers, only 37 are known to have descendants. It’s fun learning the lineage. Each of these famous folks had a distant forebear who was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. Think you might have one, too?

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