Source:Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.

Original data:
Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992.

About Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2

This database contains birth and death details for descendants of passengers on the Mayflower extracted from the files of George Ernest Bowman.

Historical Background

George Ernest Bowman, founder of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants in 1896, compiled more than 20,000 pages of research on descendants of the original Mayflower colonists. Susan E. Roser has extracted the birth and death details contained in the database from Bowman’s files.

Volume one contains descendants from 12 Mayflower families (Alden–Fuller), while volume two traces descendants from 11 (Hopkins–Winslow). Together, the two volumes include details on about 50,000 Mayflower descendants, often extending to the seventh or eighth generation. Roser has made a particular effort to include sources and has noted corrections to Bowman’s research in footnotes.