RootsTech2020 Day Two

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.