Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 31 (part 2)
By Melissa Berry on January 17, 2023
Melissa Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on author and historian Edward Rowe Snow writing about Pilgrim John Howland... (Read More)
Tag: John Howland
Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 30 (part 1)
By Melissa Berry on December 6, 2022
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on the lineage of historian and author Harvey Hunter Pratt... (Read More)
Discovering Cousins Using GenealogyBank’s Newspapers
By Thomas Jay Kemp on September 8, 2017
An article about the author’s cousin, Mary Ann McKinney Bussa, a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim John Howland and Texas revolutionary Collin McKinney... (Read More)
Helen (Capron) Greenwood: Mayflower Descendant
By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 30, 2017
An article about Helen Greenwood, a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim John Howland, and how she volunteered for Mayflower-descendant organizations... (Read More)
Mayflower Descendant Lola McDaniel, the Daughter of Many Pioneers
By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 21, 2017
An article about finding descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims by searching newspapers using the keywords “Mayflower” and “ancestor.”.. (Read More)
Mayflower Genealogy: Use Obituaries to Find Interesting Details about Relatives
By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 15, 2017
An article about tracing your Mayflower family history based on obituaries of descendants of Pilgrim John Howland... (Read More)
New Book: ‘The Boy Who Fell off the Mayflower’
By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 1, 2016
Book review: “The Boy Who Fell off the Mayflower” by P. J. Lynch... (Read More)
Genealogy Tip for Researching Pilgrim John Howland’s Family History
By Thomas Jay Kemp on March 2, 2016
If you are researching Pilgrim John Howland’s family, use the Howland lineages printed in a NSSDP lineage book as a roadmap to fill in your family tree... (Read More)
Wow! 4-Page Obituary for William Bullock Clark
By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 13, 2015
I was looking for the obituary of William Bullock Clark (1860-1917), a geology professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Looking in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives, I quickly found multiple obituaries for him. For example, there is this obituary from the Sun (Baltimore, Maryland). Great obituary. It includes the basic genealogical facts: his... (Read More)
