This special commemorative issue of American Ancestors magazine focuses on the history, relevance, and impact of the Mayflower and its passengers. Drawing from our extensive staff expertise, as well as from partner...

In this ground-breaking historical narrative, Robert Charles Anderson reveals the "why" of the Great Migration to New England that took place between 1620 and 1640. Anderson focuses not only on...

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs’s biography of Edward Winslow is now back in print as our first publication bearing the NEHGS 2020 logo! Dr. Bangs, director of the American Pilgrim Museum in...

Mayflower Inspired 16 Generation Family Register chart A perfect way to show your connection to your Mayflower ancestor! This blank family register chart is designed to record up to 16...

In this issue: Families: Brown, Freeman, Giddings, Lewis, Sprague Sources: Wellfleet Vital Records First published in 1899 by George Ernest Bowman, founder of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, which published...

In this issue: Families: Chipman, Churchill, Collins, Drew, James, Keen, Simmons, Winslow Sources: Stoughton [Mass.] Marriages, 1727-1851 First published in 1899 by George Ernest Bowman, founder of the Massachusetts Society...

In this 1841 publication, Young has gathered a number of lengthy documents covering the history of the Pilgrim Church in Scrooby and Leiden, the transfer of part of that congregation...

Originally published in 1846, Young’s compilation of two dozen contemporaneous documents depict the preparations for the settlement of Massachusetts Bay Colony, the migration process itself, and some events from the...

In this issue: Families: Fisher, Gardner, Hall, Turner, Young Sources: Wellfleet Vital Records First published in 1899 by George Ernest Bowman, founder of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, which...

In this issue: Families: Orcutt, Shippey, Alger, Carrier Sources: Easton Vital Records Town Study: Scituate First published in 1899 by George Ernest Bowman, founder of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower...

This important classic work, first published in 1930, lists the names of immigrants to New England during the Great Migration, 1620–1640: more than 3,500 names of passengers on 96 ships....

This popular book from the Great Migration series is now available in paperback. In it, Robert Charles Anderson tells the story of the Pilgrim Migration by relating the story of...