And today is the feast of Sts. Simon and Jude (patron of hopeless causes.) I wasn't sure how hopeful to be when starting this web site 3 years ago but thank you, St. Jude, all you readers, my assistant webmaster, and everyone on the Good Ship Mayflower 395 years ago. I hope you all come back again and again, click on the ads while you're here, and send me a photo or two to post. Thank you!
In honor of the many volumes of genealogy he wrote more than 100 years ago, before there were computers, let alone an Internet, I selected Everett S. Stackpole as the 1000th entry on MayflowerFaces.com. Congratulations, Everett! More specifically, I selected his Billington entry, for reasons that students of Pilgrim history may recognize. I hope he was proud of all his Mayflower ancestors (the Billington family, Francis Eaton, Dr. Samuel Fuller, and Thomas Rogers.) Of his 4 lines, 1 (Rogers) was from the Leiden religious Separatist group. The rest were "Strangers."
And today is the feast of Sts. Simon and Jude (patron of hopeless causes.) I wasn't sure how hopeful to be when starting this web site 3 years ago but thank you, St. Jude, all you readers, my assistant webmaster, and everyone on the Good Ship Mayflower 395 years ago. I hope you all come back again and again, click on the ads while you're here, and send me a photo or two to post. Thank you!
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If you are an Arizona member of the GSMD or an active applicant in the state of Arizona, the AZ Mayflower Society has 2 events per year, both banquets, and the reservation form is online now. Go to http://arizonamayflowersociety.org/index.php http://arizonamayflowersociety.org/index.php for details about Compact Day, our Thanksgiving celebration. I hope to see you there.
Many of the sharper images on this site are public domain photos from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. (Not all LOC images are in the public domain.) This may be old news to some, but for those of use who don't do flickr, the LOC has been digitizing thousands of images and is making them available in the "Flickr Commons" project. Scrolling down the front page casually, it looks like the collection is a mishmash of popular culture (early baseball), traditional history (Czar Nicholas), and "What's This Gadget?" It's not clear what you do if you know what the gadget is, or if they already know and this is a quiz. If you are more at home with flickr than the LOC site you can give it a try. There is a search option if you are looking for someone in particular. |
AuthorDr. Maura Mackowski is an Arizona research historian who enjoys the challenge of looking for Mayflower descendants, hers and anyone else's. Archives
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