Eligibility
Anyone 18 or older who can prove direct bloodline descent from a Mayflower passenger is invited to join. All memberships are based on lineages that trace back to one of the following names. If you think you have a connection, we encourage you to research your family tree!
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John Alden
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Bartholomew Allerton
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Isaac Allerton
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Mary (Norris) Allerton
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Mary Allerton
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Remember Allerton
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Eleanor Billington
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Francis Billington
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John Billington
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William Bradford
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Love Brewster
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Mary Brewster
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William Brewster
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Peter Brown
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James Chilton
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Mrs. James Chilton
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Mary Chilton
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Francis Cooke
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John Cooke
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Edward Doty
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Francis Eaton
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Samuel Eaton
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Sarah Eaton
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Moses Fletcher
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Edward Fuller
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Mrs. Edward Fuller
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Samuel Fuller (son of Edward Fuller)
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Samuel Fuller
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Stephen Hopkins
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Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins
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Constance Hopkins
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Giles Hopkins
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John Howland
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Richard More
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William Mullins
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Priscilla Mullins
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Degory Priest
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Thomas Rogers
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Joseph Rogers
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Henry Samson
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George Soule
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Myles Standish
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John Tilley
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Joan (Hurst) Tilley
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Elizabeth Tilley
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Richard Warren
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William White
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Susanna (Jackson) White
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Peregrine White
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Resolved White
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Edward Winslow
NOTE
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A "passenger" is one who remained in Plymouth after the Mayflower crew returned to England.
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Membership for adopted children must be through the birth parents.
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Supplemental certificates are available for each additional documented Mayflower ancestor.​​​​
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YOUR GOAL is to locate documents that link each generation back to the Mayflower. To do this, you will need digital scans or copies of the following vital records for each person in your lineage:
Birth
Certificate
Marriage
License
Death
Certificate
HOW TO START. Start with yourself and your parents, then work backward through your lineage. Interview your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and even family friends. You may discover that someone else has already completed some of the research or possesses the exact documents you need.
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LOCATING OLDER RECORDS. Most state governments have kept certified vital records since the early 1900s. For documents before then, search newspaper announcements, wills, census records, cemetery, court, military, immigration, and pension records, church registers, and even handwritten records found in old family Bibles. The internet offers many tips and resources for locating these items.
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A CRUCIAL RULE FOR APPLICATIONS. Please note that you must make a digital scan or copy of each document and record exactly where you found it. Handwritten copies are not accepted.
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REACHING THE "SILVER BOOKS" BRIDGE. Collect documents back to the sixth generation of your Mayflower ancestor. Our historian can fill in your remaining lineage using the Mayflower Families Through Five Generations books (known as the "Silver Books" due to their silver covers). You can also view these books at the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center in Oklahoma City and the Tulsa Genealogy Research Center.
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