Tomorrow: the costumed Pilgrim Procession and we hit the LDS Library for some research.
Because it's the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival in America other RootsTech2020 participants are helping the Mayflower Society celebrate. Someone brought a beautiful 8-foot-long model of the Mayflower that stands 6 feet high and is a foot-and-a-half wide. The New England Historical Genealogical Society (NEHGS, americanancestors,org) has a big booth where they are selling some of their many books and publications AND have a terminal where people can access the Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880 database (under license to the GSMD the NEHGS digitized the 5th & 6th generation pages from the silver books.) Not far from us the DAR has a booth with a computer and can do lookups on their Genealogical Research System (GRS) database of proven Revolutionary War patriots and their lines, AND allows cross-checking for every descendant of the 1,000,000 women who have become members or done a supplemental application. Those are just 2 services onsite at RootsTech2020 that can help attendees with their Mayflower lineage. Attendees can fill out a lineage search request at the GSMD booth and in a few weeks will hear it straight from the horse's mouth: Is this a valid line or not? Has anyone else joined on that line? Applicants do not have to provide documentation that an earlier member already turned in, so this is a big time and money saving service.
Tomorrow: the costumed Pilgrim Procession and we hit the LDS Library for some research.
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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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