As she prepares for Thanksgiving each year, Betsy Slagle thinks about an ancestor: Francis Cooke, who arrived in Massachusetts with fellow Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620. Thirteen generations later ...

As you carve the turkey today and look around the table at your loved ones, there are important lessons you can teach both young and old about our American Thanksgiving holiday. When the Pilgrims ...

Angela Davis was shocked to learn that her ancestors came to America on the Mayflower, making her descendants of people who helped found the country. The civil rights activist learned about this news ...

In February, Daniel South's grave caught the eye of Keith Kammenzind, Western colony governor for the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who discovered South's ...

Members of the society can trace their lineage to at least one of 26 men and three women who sailed on the Mayflower and who had descendants. There are more than 400 members in the Colorado Mayflower ...

On the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, local descendants of the original Mayflower passengers help keep that mythical story alive. We should be thankful they do. They sat down together ...

PLYMOUTH – If the face on the new statue at the Mayflower Society House looks familiar, odds are you are a descendant of William Bradford. That’s because the sculptor of this new effigy of the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A new gravestone was unveiled on Saturday for a veteran of the French and Indian War in Carnegie. A ceremony was held at Old St. Luke's Church in Scott Township for the ...

PLYMOUTH — Mark Schmidt, after 10 years at Falmouth’s Museums on the Green, will continue his career leading the General Society Mayflower Descendants, founded in 1897. “Mark’s experience with the ...

Shown are members of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from left, first row: Lexie Kelly, Marleta Shadduck, Bonnie Yusavage, Sarah Davis, Susanna White Winslow, ...