This Thanksgiving will be especially poignant for a group of San Diego County residents, whose forebears held the first Thanksgiving gathering 400 years ago after arriving a year earlier on a sailing ...

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 ...

A cold case murder from 20 years ago is heating up, thanks to a centuries-old DNA strain. In 1992, 16-year-old Sarah Yarborough, a cheerleader and honor student, was found dead on the Federal Way High ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Ever wondered if you have an ancestor among the 103 passengers on the Mayflower? The Greater Ozarks Colony of the Society of Mayflower Descendants has a meeting planned for folks ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHAMPLAIN — Champlain resident John H. Berkman, Jr. is one of 35 million descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims. It was another matter for him to prove to the Mayflower Society his lineage to one of ...

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 ...

Each year The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (SMDPA) sponsors a re-enactor from Plimoth-Patuxet Museum to share the Pilgrim experience with school children in the ...