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Do you think you may be a Mayflower descendant? Notable figures such as Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, and Winston Churchill traced their ancestry to early Pilgrim families, including John and Priscilla Alden. If your family lore mentions 17th-century New England towns, ships arriving in the New World, or old Massachusetts records preserved in a family Bible or on Ancestry, your roots may be surprisingly well documented. Early English settlers left extensive paper trails—arrival records, birth and marriage registers, land deeds, court files, and burial plots—and by 1680 much of New England’s best land was already claimed, prompting later arrivals to move west. We offer private, guided genealogy tours that take you to the towns, churches, seaports, historic homes, and colonial graveyards where your American story began, including access to local historical societies and resources like the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston; past tours have uncovered centuries-old family homes, extensive gravestone clusters, and even names on monuments such as Plymouth’s Forefathers Memorial.
Do you think you may be a Mayflower descendant? Notable figures such as Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, and Winston Churchill traced their ancestry to early Pilgrim families, including John and Priscilla Alden. If your family lore mentions 17th-century New England towns, ships arriving in the New World, or old Massachusetts records preserved in a family Bible or on Ancestry, your roots may be surprisingly well documented. Early English settlers left extensive paper trails—arrival records, birth and marriage registers, land deeds, court files, and burial plots—and by 1680 much of New England’s best land was already claimed, prompting later arrivals to move west. We offer private, guided genealogy tours that take you to the towns, churches, seaports, historic homes, and colonial graveyards where your American story began, including access to local historical societies and resources like the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston; past tours have uncovered centuries-old family homes, extensive gravestone clusters, and even names on monuments such as Plymouth’s Forefathers Memorial.