{"id":15939,"date":"2016-08-05T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=15939"},"modified":"2017-02-02T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:26:49","slug":"documenting-mayflower-descendants-for-the-400th-anniversary-1620-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/documenting-mayflower-descendants-for-the-400th-anniversary-1620-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"Documenting Mayflower Descendants for the 400th Anniversary (1620-2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found another Mayflower descendant this week: Merton Chesleigh Lane (1893-1975), formerly of Tacoma, Washington. He wasn\u2019t in the large online family tree sites \u2013 but he is now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15943\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/montage-0805-2016-merton-lane-mayflower.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/montage-0805-2016-merton-lane-mayflower.png\" alt=\"An article about Mayflower descendant Merton Chesleigh Lane, Seattle Daily Times newspaper article 19 November 1961\" width=\"534\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/montage-0805-2016-merton-lane-mayflower.png 534w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/montage-0805-2016-merton-lane-mayflower-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, Washington), 19 November 1961, page S-3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I spotted him because he was interviewed in the <em>Seattle Daily Times<\/em> when he was \u201crecently elected governor of the state (Mayflower) society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article noted that he was the \u201ctenth (generation) from John Alden and Thomas Rogers and ninth from William Bradford, William Brewster, Edward Doty, George Soule, Richard Warren, Edward Winslow and William White.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Great \u2013 that makes us related via almost all of these Mayflower passengers. With that information I added him to my online family trees and began the process of reconfirming and documenting his multiple lineages back to the Mayflower.<\/p>\n<p>Are you doing your part?<\/p>\n<p>Pay it forward and take the time to search for Mayflower descendants in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&s_referrer=social&s_siteloc=blog&s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&kbid=69919&pq=1&prebuy=no&intver=&CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> and document your discoveries in your online family tree sites. My goal is to document as many Mayflower descendants as possible in preparation for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620.<\/p>\n<p>I want to make it easy for all genealogists to discover their Mayflower roots \u2013 and GenealogyBank is helping me do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us what Mayflower lines you have documented using GenealogyBank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Mayflower Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-genealogy-finding-your-cousins-using-newspapers.html\">Mayflower Genealogy: Finding Your Cousins Using Newspapers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/researching-recent-obituaries-for-all-my-mayflower-cousins.html\">Researching Recent Obituaries for All My Mayflower Cousins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/full-list-of-mayflower-passengers-in-gov-bradfords-newly-restored-journal.html\">Full List of Mayflower Passengers in Gov. Bradford\u2019s Newly-Restored Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/i-didnt-know-marilyn-guedesse-but-shes-my-cousin.html\">I Didn\u2019t Know Marilyn Guedesse \u2013 but, She\u2019s My Cousin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about finding Merton Chesleigh Lane and other Mayflower descendants by searching old newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,8263,2020],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-mayflower-pilgrims","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/illustration-0720-2016-mayflower.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}