Mayflower Society Genealogy Resources
With over 100,000 approved members to date, we may already have the documentation you need to be eligible for membership with The Mayflower Society. Just fill out our Mayflower Lineage Match form (see below) for a detailed report from our files.
You may also search for your ancestors using the Silver Books or by watching our Genealogy Webinars for tips on how to research your Mayflower Lineage.
Another useful resource for finding evidence of lineage is he Patriots to Passenger project which connects Revolutionary War patriots with descendants of the Mayflower pilgrims.
If you are interested in DNA, please read our DNA Policy.
Mayflower Lineage Match
Find out how much of your Mayflower lineage has been previously verified
The Mayflower Silver Books
Search our Mayflower Families books for your ancestors
Genealogy Webinars
A series of online education videos specifically made for researching Mayflower lineage.
Patriots to Passenger
Revolutionary War patriots linked to Mayflower passengers
Pilgrims with Known Descendants
The following is a list of Mayflower passengers with known descendants. If one or more of these passengers is your ancestor, we invite you to join the Mayflower Society!
Though the crew of the Mayflower certainly made significant sacrifices in completing the journey, the Mayflower Society recognizes only those passengers who stayed to form Plymouth Colony. The crew returned to England in the spring of 1621 so no members are listed above and descent from a crew member does not qualify one for membership.
Family Societies
Family Societies are organizations that focus on a particular Pilgrim family and their lineage. They are an invaluable resource for learning about a family’s origins.
See the list of Family Societies.
World’s Biggest Searchable Mayflower Database
New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Mayflower Society have also worked together to digitize historic Mayflower Society member applications. This effort required digitizing more than 1 million images and creating documented descendant family trees of the Mayflower passengers now accessible online at Mayflower.AmericanAncestors.org. Please note that only deceased generations of the applications are available online.
The online collections were created from two data sources—the 30-volume “Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 1620,” also known as the Silver Books, and the documented applications for membership in the Mayflower Society submitted from 1896 to 2019. The data was merged to create a single representation for each Pilgrim and their descendants for the time period of the late 1500s to 1910.
This database is available to anyone with an American Ancestors membership and is available for FREE to members of The Mayflower Society. More information about the American Ancestors membership is available on the Members Only section of the website under “Member Benefits.”