Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants

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…

09/08/2022

https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2022/09/let-it-snow/

An occasional project I have worked on is compiling a list of “near- Mayflower” families. These are families who were not on the 1620 voyage themselves, but most or all of whose present-day descend…

08/11/2022

Check out the latest edition of The Compact!

07/15/2022

Howland descendants (times four)

"Another topic in my conversation with the Globe reporter was Patrick [Jackson]’s earliest ancestors in the present-day United States, and here I mentioned that he had four different descents from "Mayflower" passengers John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland..." Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q01gXW6h0

07/11/2022

Patrick Jackson is a descendant of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland (four times)

For the past few months, we’ve been working with "The Boston Globe" on a big story about the very different family histories of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and her husband Patrick Jackson—a truly unique American story. Yesterday, the story ran on the front page of the Sunday paper! “A Union to Challenge the Past,” by politics reporter Emma Platoff, quotes our VP of Research Services Lindsay Fulton and Manager of Research & Library Services Sarah Dery at length, and also mentions Senior Genealogist Chris Child’s work. Our research team put in many hours of hard work on this case, especially to find Judge Jackson’s southern lines. You can also read about our research on our website here: https://hubs.ly/Q01gyh4B0

The story appeared online on Saturday in the "Globe's" digital edition. Soon after being posted, it ranked as the #1 story and as of this email, it has received over 21,000 views and nearly 100 comments. Please note it’s behind a paywall, so unfortunately we are not allowed to link to it in full, but it’s a fascinating read if you do happen to have a Globe subscription.

Full "Boston Globe" article (behind paywall): https://hubs.ly/Q01gy9Ml0

07/09/2022

Her husband is a four times descendant of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland!

Their marriage in 1996 linked two poles of the nation’s past, in a bond their ancestors would have struggled to imagine.