The DuBois Area Historical Society will host a book signing for Kathy Myers’ latest book “World War II and the Pennsylvania ...

For those looking to find out about New England ancestors who came over on other ships during this period, the best source of ...

Each year The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (SMDPA) sponsors a re-enactor from Plimoth-Patuxet Museum to share the Pilgrim experience with school children in ...

The organisation Morgan wants to knock out of its buckled shoes is the augustly named General Society of Mayflower Descendants, for generations considered among the bluest-blooded heritage groups ...

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.

Star Vondrell of Springfield Township leads the Cincinnati area “colony” of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. It took her years to gather enough documents to prove her connection to the ...

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.

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.

But for how many? There are a few estimates out there, all of them quite high. According to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, there are "35 million Mayflower descendants in the world".

Four hundred years later, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants estimates there are some 35 million people descended from those original Pilgrims. Of those, 150,000 of them have joined the ...

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.