
Lecture Series
All times listed are in Eastern Standard Time
In 2021, the Mayflower Society launched a very popular Lecture Series covering a variety of Mayflower Pilgrim-related topics including their odyssey, their life and times, their maritime experience and, of course, genealogy!
Please plan to join us for a fun learning experience about the Mayflower Pilgrims and genealogy topics, right from the comfort of your own home.
- Monthly webinar lectures are free and open to the public.
- No pre-registration required.
- Live event links are posted below.
- Webinars are recorded and available on demand.
Missed a lecture? View previously recorded lectures on demand.
2025 Mayflower Society Virtual Program Schedule
June 24th AT 7PM EST - "The photo angel" with kate kelley
Kate Kelley started a new venture that began with a pile of labeled photos of non-relatives mixed in with her grandparents’ old family pictures. Not certain who they were, she started poking around genealogy websites and immediately began connecting with relatives of the photographed. She loves to visit antique stores to thumb through their pictures in her quest to find labeled photos so that she may return them to their family members. One woman affectionately dubbed her, “The Photo Angel.” The purpose of this project is to inspire others to dig out their dusty attic boxes and visit antique stores for photos with identifying information to reunite with families. The Photo Angel project has been featured on NBC’s The Today Show, Family Tree Magazine, The Daughters of the American Revolution’s American Spirit and several other news media outlets.
Learn more at: https://thephotoangel.net/
Zoom webinar information:
View On Demand Webinars
2025 Mayflower Society Virtual Programs
“A Grave Mistake? The English Origins of Old Comer Thomas Clarke”
Presented by: Bill Cole
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“Plantation Goods: A Material of American Slavery”
Presenter: Seth Rockman
Unavailable for rewatch per request of the presenter
“Plunder? How Museums Got Their Treasures”
Presenter: Justin Jacobs
Passcode: nnA@f=?6
“The Mayflower in Britain”
Presenter: Graham Taylor
No passcode needed
“Welcome To The Graveyard”
Presented by: Brenda Sullivan
No Passcode Needed
“The Bible: A Global History”
Presented by: Bruce Gordon
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“A Perfect Frenzy”
Presented by: Andrew Lawler
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The Blazing World: Revolutionary England, 1603-1689″
Presenter: Jonathan Healey
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2024 Mayflower Society Virtual Programs
Families and Freedoms:
Connections Between the
Mayflower and the American Revolution
Presenter: Jonathan Lane
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Making the Presidency:
John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic” Presenter: Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky
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Pits, Posts and Palisades:
The Archaeology of Patuxet and the
17th century Plimoth Colony Settlement
Presenter: David Landon
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Indian Wars of New England
Presenter: Michael Tougias
Passcode: T2qY09&X
Marco Polo
Presenter: Laurence Bergreen
Passcode: 9^q.4La0
The Electoral College:
Why It Endures Despite
Two Centuries of Criticism
Presenter: Thomas Weaver
Passcode: f1pj^NxL
The Journey to the Mayflower
Presenter: Stephen Tomkins
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Squanto: A Native Odyssey
Presenter: Andrew Lipman
Passcode: 8*eXWV?D
Project Mayflower
Presenter: Richard Stone
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2023 Mayflower Society Virtual Programs
The Mayflower and Her Passengers
Presenter: Caleb Johnson
Passcode: 9Zp9K&ac
Jump Starting Your Family History with Familysearch
Presenter: Lynn Turner
Passcode: N2iy*T3v
Bridging the Gap: Getting Around Brick Walls. Looking into Your Genealogical Background
Presenter: Denise Cross
Passcode: 5JKmGCs?
Welcome to the Plymouth Antiquarian Society
Presenter: Anne Mason
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Welcome to Plimoth Patuxet
Presenter: Tom Begley
Passcode: TXn3w=B.
The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society 1580-1660
Presenter: Misha Ewen
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The Voyage of Mayflower 400
Presenter: Brett Phaneuf
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Mutinous Women
Presenter: Joan DeJean
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
Presenter: Richard Thompson Ford
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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Presenter: Virginia Postrel
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2022 Mayflower Society Virtual Programs
Beefing Up an Ancestor’s Timeline
Presenter: Jeanette Sheliga
Presenter: Bonnie Wade Mucia
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Presenter: Mark Schmidt
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Presenter: Beth Finch McCarthy
Passcode: !Z#9hWdC
Presenter: Nancy Rubin Stuart
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Presenters: Mike Terry, Susan Abanor and Kenneth Whittemore
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2021 Mayflower Society Virtual Programs
Made in America
Presenter: James W. Baker
Passcode: W?=YE77$
The Peregrine White Webinar
Presenter: Stephen C. O’Neill
Passcode: X&F9Sm5$