Dovekeeper@aol.com wrote: > > Dear list, > > I am following with a request from a fellow journalist - I seem to remember > someone stating they had Mayflower roots. If someone could help her out with > this request for ethnic connections to the Mayflower by Oct. 4th (she has a > rush deadline and will not be able to use anything past that date) it would > be great. She's a lovely lady. Please respond to her directly. Thanks so much. > Rosie > > I'm doing a rush (by Friday) research job for a national magazine. They want > to run a Thanksgiving Day cover showing a mix of people of many races who are > descended from the passengers who arrived on Mayflower. (They can include > people who are related by marriage.) > > I'll need to find the people, confirm that they're willing to be photographed > for the cover, briefly pre-interview them to get a single, short quote > (something along the lines of what Thanksgiving means to me or what it means > to be an American this Thanksgiving), and of course get their permission to > use their names and cities in the photo caption. > > Any ideas where or how I could find African-American, Asian, Indian (as in > from India), or other non-Caucasian descendants (including > descendants-by-marriage --- a person who married someone who was a > descendant) of Mayflower passengers? > << > Reply to: Peggy at PJNoonan@aol.com > > ==== WILLIAMS Mailing List ==== > List web page: http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/lists/WILLIAMS.htm > Your WILLIAMS listowner - Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/ Start by e-mailing Mayflower researchers and visiting the genealogical associations devoted to the Mayflower, Plymouth Colony, Wintrhop's Fleet, and the other New England bound passenger ships of the 17th Century. Some good starting points are: The Mayflower mailing list: <mayflower-l@rootsweb.com>. It is a mailing list for people researching the descendants of the passengers of the Mayflower. Subscribe at <mayflower-l-request@rootsweb.com> Plinoth-on-Web, Plinoth Plantation: The Living History Museum of the 17th Century Plymouth http://www.plimoth.org/Library/library.htm Note the links to "Pilgrim Genealogy", "The Wampanoag - People of the Dawn", and "The Old-comers: Passengers of the: Mayflower (1620)" The Mayflower Society, General Society of Mayflower Descendants Founded at Plymouth, Massachusetts 1897 http://www.mayflower.org/ This organization may place you into contact with selected members of their society. The society may also be able to offer publications which can help to identify minority ethnic members of the society for you to contact. The Winthrop Society http://www.winthropsociety.org/home.htm The descendants of Winthrop's Fleet and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were mostly intermarried with the Myflower passengers and their descendants. New England Historic Genealogical Society, New England Ancestors.org. http://www.newenglandancestors.org/Default.asp Search Cyndi's List: http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=2077098&pageid=r&mode=all&query=Mayflower This directory of information about the Mayflower includes a wide range of resources concerning the Mayflower, her passengers, and the descendants of the passengers. Dallas Patterson nye@fidalgo.net