PLYMOUTH — Mark Schmidt, after 10 years at Falmouth’s Museums on the Green, will continue his career leading the General Society Mayflower Descendants, founded in 1897.

Hurt previously held the position of secretary general of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. She also served as governor, historian and webmaster for the Kansas Society, of which she is ...

Most, of course, have no idea about that pedigree, but about 150,000 of them care enough to belong to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants — including quite a few under age thirty.

Members of the San Diego Colony of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, many wearing 1620 period attire, gathered to mark the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving in Carlsbad.

The Mayflower Society House is the national headquarters of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, which researches the lineage of the Pilgrims who traveled aboard the Mayflower in 1620.

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants recently certified Choma as a member after she submitted documentation that traces her lineage to William Bradford, an English pilgrim who sailed to ...

American Ancestors and its partners — the General Society Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) and FamilySearch International — have introduced an online resource that makes the question “Am I ...

Interest in Pilgrim genealogy is surging with the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's 1620 arrival in the New World fast approaching. There are an estimated 10 million living Americans and as many as ...

Cheshire and other new officers were installed by James W. Preston, governor of the Florida State Society of Mayflower Descendants, during a Zoom meeting on Nov. 7.

The society’s Pilgrim database project launched last year with the cooperation of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants includes 193,000 birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records ...