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Some say the Mayflower brought democracy to America. It is certain that this tiny ship has had an immense role in American history.

People on both sides of the Atlantic worked during the 1950s to construct a replica of the Mayflower, the ship that brought English colonists to America in 1620.

George Bowman devoted more than 50 years to finding records of Mayflower families. A contemporary genealogist has extracted 10,000 marriages from his records.

The Mayflower was a typical seventeenth century cargo ship, indistinguishable from hundreds of others. A voyage to America in 1620 would give it immortality.

Excitement was building in both the US & England. Then in 1957 Mayflower II, an icon of past freedom and modern brotherhood, sailed from England to America,.

Tens of millions of people can legitimately claim ancestors who came on the Mayflower and they are by no means all elite blue-bloods.

Before the Mayflower left Holland to sail into history, this adventure was ripe with problems and obstacles. Author, Nathaniel Philbrick, recounts the absorbing tale.

What Thanksgiving lessons can we take from the Mayflower? Sacrifice, religious freedom, and being thankful for what God gives us, despite hardships.

There, in the crowded cabin of the tiny ship Mayflower, while women and children watched, 41 men signed the historic Mayflower Compact, a model of self-government.

Millions of people are descended from the Pilgrims who arrived in the new world on the Mayflower.

Female lives in past centuries were not as well documented as Sarah Palin's is, but ancestor Deborah (Sampson) Gannett gained attention as a Revolutionary War soldier.

Resources for tracing Plymouth Colony ancestors are plentiful. That is because the Mayflower pilgrims are part of this much larger collection of ancestors.

Sarah Palin's Howland and Tilley ancestral line gives her four more individual Mayflower ancestors and doubles back on itself to provide multiple descent from them.

The Pilgrims are forced to abandon the Speedwell and dangerously crowd some one hundred passengers aboard the Mayflower for their voyage to America.

One of Sarah Palin's more controversial ancestors is Mayflower Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins. Four centuries have not separated the fact and fiction of his past.

The story taught in school of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims is given a much closer scrutiny by Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.

Thousands of people can trace their roots back to the original colonists who came to America on the Mayflower. These resources will help you with your research.

The Mayflower Compact, signed in 1620 by the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, has been cited as a model of self-government.

In addition to William Brewster, Sarah Palin descends from nine other Mayflower pilgrims. Some of these are multiple lines of descent.

Sarah Palin descends from Mayflower pilgrim Richard Warren, about whom not much is known. It is estimated that Warren has 14 million descendants.

Thanksgiving Day has a whole new meaning once the true story of the pilgrims' settlement along Cape Cod comes into light with Philbrick's new book for early teen readers.

This is an interview with Ms. Lisa Q. Wolfinger, Producer and Director of The History Channel's "Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower."

In an interview with Producer Wolfinger, she talks about the actors who play key roles in "Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower."

CPT Jones faced a dilemma, dock the Mayflower at Cape Cod or travel south to the mouth of the Hudson River where the passengers could legally begin their colony.

Some Pilgrims, in picking baby names chose virtues, like Patience. Some picked names that baffle us today. Wrestling? Mostly, though, they liked names from the Bible.

Before passengers were allowed to leave the Mayflower, all of the men had to sign an agreement known as the Mayflower Compact--the first civil document of New Plymouth.

Attempts to link documents in the Western tradition with the expansion of popular political participation may be disingenuous and mythical.

The Billingtons, not members of the Plymouth religious community, were trouble from the start. John Billington was probably the first American executed for murder.

On September 6, 1620, more than 100 passengers set sail for America aboard the Mayflower. Beginning here is a list of those people.

Mary Chilton, perhaps the first pilgrim to step ashore, arrived as a young teen whose parents soon died. She was taken in by other pilgrims and later married a Winslow.

This lists some of the 1620 passengers aboard the Mayflower including Mary Allerton Cushman, Remember Allerton, and John Carver.

John Carver devoted much of his wealth to founding the Plymouth Colony. His term as its first governor was shortened by his death five months later.

Mayflower Pilgrim Peter Brown(e), a carpenter, was not part of the Separatist community. Not much of his background was known until recently.

Lisa Q. Wolfinger, Producer and Director, tells us more about the making of "Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower."

Here, the Mayflower Passenger list continues. This portion of the list includes the Brewsters, the unruly Billingtons and Dotys, as well as the Tilly brothers.

John Howland, ancestor of three American presidents, was among 18 servants aboard the Mayflower's 1620 voyage that established Plymouth Colony.

The Mayflower Compact is written, then signed on November 11, 1620.

Squanto meets the Pilgrims who were aboard the Mayflower, although half of the original company had died during the winter. He is introduced to them by Samoset, an Abena

The Mayflower Compact is written and signed after the Mayflower is moored on November 21, 1620, in what would come to be called Provincetown Harbor, in present-day Massac

The Mayflower moors in Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts near Cap Cod instead of Virginia. To avoid a mutiny they decided to settle there.

Presidents, poets and historians have characterized the pilgrims as devout, dauntless spiritual and political mentors for America. Here are some quotes.

Thomas Weston, a discontented Mayflower Company backer, founded Weymouth, MA, a failed venture meant to show the Pilgrims how to achieve commercial success.

On the verge of winter and starvation, under the leadership of CPT. Miles Standish, the scouting party uncovered and stole a cache of buried corn.

Religious beliefs played a large part in the formation of early colonies in America. Another important belief was representative government.

The ship Fortune arrived at Plymouth Colony just after the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving. Its arrival meant mixed blessings.

Were they pilgrims or just people trying to make a better life for themselves and their children. Whoever they were they an integral part of American History.

This is a review of "Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower," a History Channel © production.

Visitors get a unique view of 17th century American history at Plimoth Plantation, a museum that combines the stories of the native peoples and the pilgrims.

Today's Thanksgiving has evolved and is quite different than the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims and Indians came together to celebrate.

John Alden and Priscilla were among the Mayflower passengers who settled Plymouth Colony, in the New World, in 1620. They wed in Plymouth, Massachusetts.