New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) has announced the release of the Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880 database on its website. Through a partnership with the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, the database offers “meticulous documentation on the Mayflower passengers who arrived in 1620 and left descendants.”
NEHGS President and CEO D. Brenton Simons said, “This is the largest online database of authenticated Pilgrim genealogies, with more than half a million searchable names, making it easier than ever to learn whether an individual is descended from one who planted the first permanent settlement of New England in Plymouth Colony and ultimately laid the foundation for America.”
The database contains authenticated information on more than 7,300 families — more than 59,450 people — in the fifth generation of 50 of the 51 Mayflower passengers known to have descendants.
The announcement follows months of work by NEHGS, which scanned and indexed print volumes of genealogical data researched and published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
More than 193,000 records — birth, baptism, marriage, deeds, death, and burial — cover all the Pilgrims, with the exception of one: the family of Moses Fletcher. Fletcher died during the first winter at Plymouth, while his family remained in Leiden, the Netherlands.
The database contains information for the descendants of John Alden, Isaac Allerton, John Billington, William Bradford, William Brewster, Peter Brown, James Chilton, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Francis Eaton, Edward Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Stephen Hopkins, John Howland, Richard More, William Mullins, Degory Priest, Thomas Rogers, Henry Samson, Myles Standish, John Tilley, Richard Warren, William White, and Edward Winslow.
This new online database is available for use in family history research by anyone who is a paying member of NEHGS.
The society has announced a three-month new membership program for those interested in researching this and 450 other unique online database resources on AmericanAncestors.org.
