BOSTON (AP) — Figuring out whether you’re a descendant of a Pilgrim is now just a mouse click away. A monthslong effort to digitize and index the authenticated genealogies of Mayflower passengers has ...
Pop superstar Taylor Swift is a descendant of three Mayflower passengers, including Stephen Hopkins. Hopkins was once sentenced to death for mutiny but was spared and later returned to England before ...
As she prepares for Thanksgiving each year, Betsy Slagle thinks about an ancestor: Francis Cooke, who arrived in Massachusetts with fellow Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620. Thirteen generations later ...