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Mayflower & Early Plymouth Voyages
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Explore Atlantic crossings, the ships, passenger households, and the documentary record of early Plymouth.
1620–1623Historical Collections
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Salem Witch Trials & Witchcraft Crisis
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Follow the people, records, legal crisis, and long work of remembrance across colonial Massachusetts.
1692–1693
Magna Carta & Royal Gateways
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Investigate documented medieval families and later gateway connections, one evidenced generation at a time.
1215 and beyondWashington & Colonial Virginia
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Discover Virginia households, kinship, land, labor, and the records surrounding the Washington family.
1607–1775
Jamestown & Early Virginia
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Follow the settlement and its wider human history through people, places, and surviving documents.
1607–1700
Revolutionary America & Founding Families
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Explore military and civilian lives, families, and records of the Revolutionary era.
1775–1783
Native American History, Nations, Removal & Survival
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A respectful umbrella for nation-specific histories, records, families, continuity, and survival.
Many nations · many histories
Westward Trails & Pioneer Migration
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Trace documented journeys and their effects on families and communities across changing landscapes.
1800–1900
Civil War & Reconstruction Families
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Follow service, civilian lives, emancipation, and Reconstruction through sources and family histories.
1861–1877
Immigration, Passenger Arrivals & New Beginnings
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Read arrivals through manifests, ports, communities, and the lives that followed.
1600–1920
Slavery & Bound Service
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Explore slavery, indentured service, apprenticeship, captivity and freedom through sourced lives. Membership is required to view the lists.
Documented lives across eras
American Migration & Expansion
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Follow families through changing places, communities, and records, with attention to displacement and its consequences.
Changing routes, places, and communities
Deep Roots / World Historical Lineages
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Earliest documented lines, with clear stopping points and no invented bridges between historical traditions.
Earliest supported generations across traditions
Early American Settlers
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Family histories organized by settlement, period, migration, and surviving records.
Regional colonial periods
Founding Era Families
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The parents, spouses, siblings, extended families, and communities behind the founding era.
Colonial America and the early republic
Founding Fathers
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Explore the people whose political and military work helped establish the United States, beginning with existing sourced profiles.
American founding era
Framers of the United States Constitution
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Explore the Constitutional Convention, its framers and the records behind their individual contributions.
1787 and surrounding years
Gateway Ancestors
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Follow documented bridges between colonial families and earlier generations, one supported relationship at a time.
Documented bridges across generations
Irish History & Communities
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Discover Irish communities, events, culture, records and migration through a growing collection of sourced histories.
Across historical eras
New England Families
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Documented New England households, parentage, marriages, and community connections already preserved in the shared historical profiles.
Colonial New England and its descendants
Notable People & Historical Families
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Familiar historical names in the context of the many people who shared their lives.
Public lives and the families around them
Royal & Noble Connections
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Explore historical houses and their connections without extending a pedigree beyond the evidence.
Historical houses and documented relationships
Scottish History & Communities
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Explore Scottish communities, sovereignty, culture, records and migration through existing histories and new research.
Across historical eras
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
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Meet the Declaration’s signers through their existing biographies, documentary roles and family histories.
1776 and surrounding yearsFree membership opens the complete collections, historical profiles and family research tools. Join or sign in to explore. Research discussions are private to joined group members.
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Mary Allerton
c. 1616–1699Child passenger on Mayflower; identified by the Mayflower Society as the last surviving passenger.
10 sources · Open profileIllustrated reconstruction
Isaac Allerton
c. 1587–1658/59Mayflower passenger and Compact signer; Plymouth assistant and colonial agent.
15 sources · Open profileIllustrated reconstruction
George Washington
1732–1799Surveyor, planter, Continental Army commander, and first U.S. president.
40 sources · Open profileContemporary painted portrait
Betty Washington Lewis
1733–1797Daughter of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington; George’s sister.
10 sources · Open profileContemporary painted portraitIllustrative artwork sets the scene. The people, records and sources are available within each collection.