Research Your Mayflower Ancestry
Looking to trace your roots back to the Pilgrims? We have the databases to get you started.
This database includes applications and supplemental applications to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants starting from their founding in 1897 for applicants who were born before January 1, 1920. In addition to the searchable database of membership applications, there is a searchable family tree constructed for each Mayflower Passenger that can be viewed in AmericanAncesTREES. The links are in the database description.
Contains the records of 23,593 Plymouth County probate cases filed between 1686 and 1881, contributed to NEHGS by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.
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Study project of 17th century New England Families, based on Clarence Almon Torrey's bibliographic index of early New England marriages. Includes Mayflower families, but not specifically identified.
Informative sources about the members of the First Church of Plymouth from the arrival of the Mayflower to the brink of the Civil War.
Includes the Mayflower passengers and other early New England Immigrants.
The town of Barnstable on Cape Cod is one of the earliest settlements in Massachusetts and home to many Mayflower families and their descendants.
Church records indexed based on a grant from the Connecticut Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Includes Plymouth and many other towns in Massachusetts.
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Index of the fifth and sixth generation descendants from Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620 (AKA the Silver Books)
Note: The 5th and 6th generation volumes are indexed. Learn more
The publication of the Society of Mayflower Descendants since 1899.
Note: Index includes all years through 2010.
A compilation of approximately 37,000 known or presumed marriages that occurred prior to 1700 in New England, often called Torrey's Marriage Index. A principal resource for seventeenth-century New England genealogy.
Over 35,000 records of service for individuals in Massachusetts who served from the seventeenth century to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.