At the bottom left of the screen, beneath the Descendants Index pages is the new, still-under-construction All-Surname Index. The purpose of this new feature is to help you find female non line-carrying ancestors, in-between ancestors, and brick wall ancestors, thus giving you some direction in searching your family for pilgrims. For example, let's say you know you have a great-great grandmother surnamed "Briggs." There was no Briggs on the Mayflower but there are some Briggs families in Bristol Co, MA, the next county over from Plymouth Co. You have ancestors in Bristol Co and want to find out if YOUR Briggs ever married into a Mayflower line. You find the surname Briggs in the All-Surname Index and it says "ALD." Alden. After that are two names: Mary Gray Pearce and Samuel Tolman. This means, yes, the Briggs family connects somehow to John Alden & the Mullinses. How did the Pearces and Tolmans link to Alden? And might they link to YOU? You can either go straight to the Alden-Mullins section and find these two people or (because you want to see if Mary and Samuel link to someone besides the Alden-Mullins family), you go to the J-P section of the Descendant Index, find Mary Pearce, and click on the blue "Alden" next to her name. That takes you to the Alden-Mullins section and you scroll down to find Mary and read up on her. You can either scroll down further amongst the Alden-Mullinses to find Samuel Tolman or click on the Q-Z section of the Descendant Index, find Samuel Tolman, click on "ALD" and look for him. Mary and Samuel have only one Mayflower link outlined here, Alden-Mullins, but the average is two and some people have as many as nine. The idea is to push you to look at pilgrims you never thought about (or never heard of.) In Mary's case you would learn that her mother was Sarah Read/Reid Briggs of Assonet (Freetown), Bristol Co, MA. In Samuel's case there's no specific link given but there are other useful hints. Off you go with fresh leads!
If you are in Arizona, the AZMayflowerSociety.org web site has a list of the six libraries to which the state organization has donated sets of silver books. Download that list from the "Resources" list in the "Membership" section up top. Then head to the library, pick up the Alden silver books (all 5) and start looking for your Briggses or relatives you know married into the Briggs clan. If you can't get to a library, and IF you are a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, you can search on the NEHGS website (americanancestors.org) for a Gen 5 descendant surnamed Briggs. The All-Surname Index on MayflowerFaces.com, when complete, will link to (almost) any surname that pops up between the descendant whose picture is posted here and a pilgrim. Having only completed Alden-Mullins there are hundred and hundreds of these intermediate surnames to be posted, so check back from time to time. Many thanks to Ben, the co-administrator of this site for formatting that page - and for fixing the Tallies (Per Pilgrim) section so the headcount lines up neatly.
If you are in Arizona, the AZMayflowerSociety.org web site has a list of the six libraries to which the state organization has donated sets of silver books. Download that list from the "Resources" list in the "Membership" section up top. Then head to the library, pick up the Alden silver books (all 5) and start looking for your Briggses or relatives you know married into the Briggs clan. If you can't get to a library, and IF you are a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, you can search on the NEHGS website (americanancestors.org) for a Gen 5 descendant surnamed Briggs. The All-Surname Index on MayflowerFaces.com, when complete, will link to (almost) any surname that pops up between the descendant whose picture is posted here and a pilgrim. Having only completed Alden-Mullins there are hundred and hundreds of these intermediate surnames to be posted, so check back from time to time. Many thanks to Ben, the co-administrator of this site for formatting that page - and for fixing the Tallies (Per Pilgrim) section so the headcount lines up neatly.
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