Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants

10/16/2026

Join us at NERGC this coming April! MSMD will be participating in this conference alongside other New England Mayflower societies. We are seeking volunteers to help staff our booth for peak periods throughout the day. Contact the office for more information at 781-875-3194. You can also volunteer with NERGC - New England Regional Genealogical Conference

📣A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!

NERGC’s events run on volunteer hours, and we need plenty of volunteers for this conference!

Here are just a few of the areas we need volunteers for:
✅Host and monitor on-site sessions
✅Running Zoom meetings for the streaming sessions
✅Registration area
✅Provide rides to/from the airport
✅Help exhibitors move in/out
✅Miscellaneous administrative tasks
✅Provide mobility, hearing, visual, and cognitive communication assistance

and more!
Benefits of volunteering include getting to know people you work with, meeting the speakers, helping your Participating Society, and, of course, providing a wonderful experience for all conference attendees.

Sign up for a Volunteer spot on the NERGC website:
https://nergc.org/volunteers/

09/28/2026

Join us for the 19th NERGC - New England Regional Genealogical Conference in April 2027. Registration is now open!!

🎤 75 Reasons to Attend NERGC 2027!

With 75 conference sessions, there's something for every genealogist—from beginners to advanced researchers.

Explore topics including:
Artificial Intelligence
DNA
Irish & French-Canadian research
Probate, city directories & military records
Photo organizing & social history
Migration, mapping & methodology
Finding living relatives
FamilySearch, MyHeritage & Ancestry
…and so much more!

Registration opens in the Fall. Watch for the registration brochure coming soon with details on all the conference sessions!

09/09/2026

Celebrating America's 250th Anniversary with our "Mayflower to Minutemen - Seeds of Liberty" memorabilia. Secure your limited edition challenge coins and ornaments through our website shop!

10/18/2023

More on the most recent issue of Mayflower Descendant!

Our summer issue of the Mayflower Descendant includes an article by myself and Michael Leclerc entitled “The Family of Louis and Lydia (Fosdick) Lambert Ma(s)cillier of Boston, Virginia, and Guadel…

10/17/2023

Join us November 1 for our online lecture "Verifying Your Mayflower Descent." Our three-part online course will explore the many resources, record collections, and research strategies for verifying your connection to the Mayflower. Register at: https://hubs.ly/Q025lsbs0

10/13/2023

Mayflower Descendant, Volume 71, No. 2, is now available!
The highly respected scholarly journal of Pilgrim genealogy and history is back for its eighth year of publication by American Ancestors. Subscribe today to receive both issues for this year in your mailbox.
https://hubs.ly/Q0258Fsf0

10/11/2023

The Summer 2023 issue of Mayflower Descendant is out. See the below post related to one of the articles!

Quaker marriage records can be a treasure trove of genealogical information. In addition to details about the couple and their families, these records include the signatures of every guest in attendance at the wedding. https://hubs.ly/Q022CPJ_0

03/23/2023

Chris Child and Jeff Record investigate the roots of another infamous Mayflower descendant: Alex Murdaugh, subject of the recent Neflix series "Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal." https://hubs.ly/Q01HTkT00

01/25/2023

"Mayflower Descendant" 2023 Now Available!

"Mayflower Descendant" is a highly regarded source of scholarship on "Mayflower "families and related genealogies, their origins in England, and their lives and places of residence in America. Subscribe today to receive both of this year's issues in your mailbox as soon as they are published!

https://hubs.ly/Q01zbZDn0

10/13/2022

https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2022/10/jeffrey-dahmer-and-other-infamous-mayflower-descendants/

A friend relayed to me this episode: an older individual was leaving a research facility when security, per policy, asked to inspect their bag. The individual declared to my friend working at the r…