{"id":5397,"date":"2013-11-22T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T16:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2013-11-22T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T16:06:33","slug":"how-to-find-descendants-of-mayflower-pilgrims-in-recent-obits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/how-to-find-descendants-of-mayflower-pilgrims-in-recent-obits.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Descendants of Mayflower Pilgrims in Recent Obits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genealogists love their ancestors\u2014as well as the fact that important family history connections are often mentioned in recent obituaries.<\/p>\n

Have you ever noticed how common it is for these recent obituaries to describe the name of their ancestor who came over on the Mayflower<\/em> ship or fought in the American Revolutionary War?<\/p>\n

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Use those names in obituaries to your advantage in your genealogy research. If you\u2019re searching for someone whose ancestry goes all the way back to the Mayflower<\/em> and Plymouth Colony, then include the keyword \u201cMayflower\u201d and that Pilgrim ancestor\u2019s name in your search.<\/p>\n

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For example, if you were looking for the recent obituary of someone descended from Mayflower<\/em> passenger Samuel Fuller in the Recent Obituaries search page<\/a>, you could type in: Mayflower, Samuel Fuller. This search will find all obituaries that mention this Mayflower<\/em> ship passenger.<\/p>\n

This particular search found 51 obituaries.<\/p>\n

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Since each person in these 51 obituaries is the descendant of a common ancestor, Mayflower<\/em> ship passenger Samuel Fuller, we know that all of them are relatives.<\/p>\n

You will then want to research and document each generation back to this Mayflower<\/em> Pilgrim ancestor to confirm these new members of your family tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genealogists love their ancestors\u2014as well as the fact that important family history connections are often mentioned in recent obituaries. Have you ever noticed how common it is for these recent obituaries to describe the name of their ancestor who came over on the Mayflower ship or fought in the American Revolutionary War? Use those names […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1999,1658,2233,4642,465,443,1067,1074,2020,27,1084,5059,2636,447,2043,2683],"class_list":["post-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-descendants","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-fuller","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-ma","tag-massachusetts","tag-mayflower","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-obituaries","tag-obituary-archives","tag-pilgrims","tag-plymouth-colony","tag-recent-obituaries","tag-samuel-fuller"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","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=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}