In order to search for your ancestor in the records in Europe, you need to know the town of origin. If you do not know the town of origin, you need to start searching in United States records. This lesson will teach you about U.S. Passenger Lists, and what information you can find to help discover where your ancestor came from before arriving in the United States.

This video continues the story of Brandon as he learns how to discover his Mayflower ancestors. In this video, Lyn teaches Brandon how to use the FamilySearch Research Wiki to discover his Mayflower connection.Once you have finished viewing this lesson, click here to learn what you can do next.

The Hamburg passenger lists are a useful tool for many German researchers, as well as those who are researching immigrants from other countr…

This November marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims to the New World. In September 1620, the Mayflower started its jour…

As the Pilgrims made their way to America on the Mayflower in 1620, William Brewster served as a leader instrumental in establishing Plymout…

You may be familiar with the Mayflower’s turbulent journey across the Atlantic, its landing off course, and the harrowing winter that follow…

Our immigrant ancestors often created documents that were especially valuable for genealogy. Passenger lists, border crossings, naturalizati…

Records can be elusive. Family information could be in an array of documents – school records, passenger lists, cemeteries, biographies, nat…

This class teaches how to use Swedish military, census records, passenger ship manifest, and other genealogically useful collections in ArkivDigital.

Of the roughly 100 pilgrims that joined the Mayflower voyage and founded the Plymouth Colony, William Bradford stands out. After leaving his…