{"id":24303,"date":"2017-08-08T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=24303"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:35:02","slug":"use-genealogybank-to-discover-your-mayflower-relatives-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/use-genealogybank-to-discover-your-mayflower-relatives-stories.html","title":{"rendered":"Use GenealogyBank to Discover Your Mayflower Relatives\u2019 Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Sonia Thresher Richardson<\/span> (1926-2013) died in 2013, one part of her life story caught my eye: her commitment to her Mayflower heritage.<\/p>\n

Sonia was a direct descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim John Alden<\/a>, and that part of her identity meant a lot to her.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank.com, Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida), 25 February 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to her obituary:<\/p>\n

\u201cHer second husband, Harold\u2026 was a descendant of William Bradford, second governor of the colony that gave us Thanksgiving\u2026 Richardson was in on the planning stage of the Mayflower Retirement Community when it was first conceived by a committee of the First Congregational Church of Winter Park\u2026 In addition to her Mayflower heritage, Richardson was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the First Families of Massachusetts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I found Sonia\u2019s story by using the U.S. Obituary Search tool<\/a> on GenealogyBank<\/a>. This tool searches obituaries from 1977 through today, and combined with GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Obituary Search tool<\/a> and Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, researchers can discover countless stories of Mayflower descendants over four centuries. I have been able to find many new relatives of my own by searching the names of my Mayflower ancestors in the GenealogyBank database.<\/p>\n

To find Sonia, I navigated to the U.S. Obituary Search tool and, instead of searching for a particular name, I searched for the keywords \u201cMayflower\u201d and \u201cdescendant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This search produced 2,348 records, meaning there are a lot of Mayflower descendant stories to be discovered! Undoubtedly, some of those stories are those of your own relatives.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Search GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> for the first and last names of your Mayflower ancestor with the keywords \u201cMayflower,\u201d \u201cPilgrim,\u201d \u201cdescendant\u201d or \u201cancestor.\u201d These searches can help you find stories about your ancestors and about your cousins \u2013 the descendants who came after them. You may even discover new relatives you didn\u2019t know you had.<\/p>\n

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