News & Insights

The Australian Governor's update October - December 2021 Welcome and Happy New Year! Another year has passed us by and as we celebrate...

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants has hired a new Director of Genealogy and Research Services. Dr. Erin Scheopner joins us as...

In a joint effort between the AUSMD Inc and The Fellowship of First Fleeters in Sydney, a time capsule project has been proposed. We...

"The Shortest History of the World" by AUSMD member and author, Dr. David Baker. Available July 2022 David Baker came to Australia in...

In Hyde County, North Carolina stands a methodist church and cemetery named after Bishop Joshua Soule. "He was great-great-great grandson...

Hi I’m Luke living in St Kilda Melbourne - Edward Fuller line. It’s been 400 years since the our ancestors, literally 53 of our ancestors...

Nellie (Page) Pillars at her home "Nugal Hall"

Father’s Day We’ve had some bleak times money related, depression prompted just overwhelmed by the daily grind I suppose times like most...

It was an absolute Honor for Judy and I to represent Australia at the First in Person GBOA Meeting since the Charter Approval of our AU...

As a Mayflower Descendant and former teacher, I struggled trying to think of a teaching tool to pass on our family’s Mayflower history to...

We only have Edward Winslow’s reference to what was served that first Thanksgiving in 1621, and nothing about what it was served on. The...

The Australian Governor's update for July - September 2021 Welcome Please welcome my wife, Genevieve Quimbach as the new Website Manager...

How did descendants of Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller end up in Tasmania in the 1950s?

Would the Plymouth colony have survived without the children on board the Mayflower?

The Australian Governor's update for April-June 2021

Just relesed today from the Society's Governor General Jane Hurt and the Soiety's Historian General Midge Hurtuk, that US Army Retired ,...

Notices from the GSMD - The 2021 GBOA celebration is being held in Plymouth, Mass. September 8th-11. Traditional 17th Century dinner...

Keith Quimbach tells the story of the Granger family's unique connection to their Mayflower ancestor, Richard Warren.

What does being a Mayflower descendant mean to an Australian? Lisa shares her story.

The Australian Society of Mayflower Descendants (AUSMD), celebrated our first Anniversary on 26 January 2021, Australia Day. To...