Seven strategies to break through brick walls, grow your family tree, and tell their stories
Also, three things about Mayflower passengers you probably didn't know.
People tend to group all the passengers on the Mayflower as one group, when in fact there were four groups: The Separatists seeking religious freedom, families and individuals recruited by London merchants, indentured servants, and Mayflower sailors who contracted to stay a year in New Plymouth. I like the way familysearch.org breaks it down and offers a detailed discussion of each group on their Mayflower blog page: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/mayflower-passenger-list
Then there is a poster I like which shows the risk the passengers were willing to take, especially those who wanted to escape religious persecution. This chart represents the people who were on the Mayflower, and how many of them from all four groups survived a year later:
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It's also perplexing how this one group got all the attention, since there were already colonies established, except for one detail: They were refugees. It…
