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The Mayflower Society is sponsoring two tours in 2024: Follow in the Footsteps of the Pilgrims July 13-18, 2024 On this six-day stateside...
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Chris Elliott
Jan 153 min read
Australia Society's First In-Person Congress
September was a milestone for The Australian Society of Mayflower Descendants Inc. (AUSMD). For the first time we were represented in...
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Chris Elliott
Jan 151 min read
The first quarterly Governor General's Address
Wednesday, 24 January, 2024 - 7pm Eastern Time (or in Australia - Thursday 25 January - 8am-W.A; 10am-QLD, 11am-NSW, VIC, TAS) Join...
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Chris Elliott
Dec 22, 20231 min read
Letter from the Governor General
Every year, GSMD and its member societies give scores of scholarships to students across the world in order to help them fulfill their...
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Chris Elliott
Dec 2, 20231 min read
It's Museum Store Sunday at GSMD
You may be interested in one or more of the many items on sale from the GSMD website - https://themayflowersociety.org/shop/ Log onto the...
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Chris Elliott
Nov 11, 20232 min read
“. . . that we might after a special manner rejoice together . . .” Thanksgiving
These are the words that one of the Pilgrims, Edward Winslow, wrote about the holiday we call the First Thanksgiving in 1621, over 400...
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Chris Elliott
Aug 19, 20231 min read
2023 GSMD General Congress
The 2023 General Congress is about to be held in Plymouth, Massachusetts from Friday 8th September through to Wednesday 13th September....
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Steve Arnold
Sep 19, 20223 min read
GBOA Meeting Report - Bloomington, Minnesota September 10, 2022
Again, it is always an Honor to represent Australia at the General Society’s General Board of Assistants Meeting. This year was...
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Genevieve Quimbach
Sep 18, 20221 min read
Special Resolution from the Board of Directors, GSMD Inc.
On the occasion of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the following is a resolution that was scribed and read by W. Becket Soule...
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Jan 18, 20221 min read
New Director of Genealogy and Research Services
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants has hired a new Director of Genealogy and Research Services. Dr. Erin Scheopner joins us as...
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Steve Arnold
Sep 18, 20212 min read
GSMD General Board of Assistants - Meeting notes 10 September 2021
It was an absolute Honor for Judy and I to represent Australia at the First in Person GBOA Meeting since the Charter Approval of our AU...
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Beth Lambright
Sep 18, 20212 min read
Creating a family ancestor candle board
As a Mayflower Descendant and former teacher, I struggled trying to think of a teaching tool to pass on our family’s Mayflower history to...
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Keith Quimbach
Jun 16, 20213 min read
Honouring the children of the Mayflower
Would the Plymouth colony have survived without the children on board the Mayflower?
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lesterandconnie
May 28, 20211 min read
GSMD annouced the 100,000 Mayflower Society member.
Just released today from the Society's Governor General Jane Hurt and the Society's Historian General Midge Hurtuk, that US Army Retired,...
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lesterandconnie
May 22, 20211 min read
400th Anniversary of the First Thanksgiving
Notices from the GSMD - The 2021 GBOA celebration is being held in Plymouth, Mass. September 8th-11. Traditional 17th Century dinner...
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