Eligibility
You are eligible to join if you are at least 18 years old and can prove direct bloodline descent from a Mayflower passenger. The following passengers have living descendants, and all memberships are based on lineages that begin with one of these names. If you think you may be a Mayflower descendant, 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. You will need digital scans of the following vital records for each person in your lineage:
Birth
Certificate
Marriage
License
Death
Certificate
Start with yourself and your parents and work backward in your lineage. Interview your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and even family friends. You may discover that others have already completed some of the research or possess some of the documents you need.
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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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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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Collect documents back to the sixth generation of your Mayflower ancestor. Our society historian is able to supply your remaining Mayflower lineage, as published in the Mayflower Families Through Five Generations books (also known as the Silver Books, due to their silver covers). These books are also available at the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center (Oklahoma City) and the Tulsa Genealogy Research Center.
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