Between 1620 and 1640 about 20,000 men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic to settle New England. The Great Migration Study Project provides a concise, reliable summary of research on these early immigrants to America. This effort that began in 1988 has resulted in more than 2,400 in-depth sketches on New England’s earliest settlers and the discovery of many previously unidentified immigrants. In a series published by New England Historic Genealogical Society, Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, has provided accounts on most of them. His works have led thousands of family historians to discover ancestral connections to these earliest settlers in our country’s history.
On June 19, 2019, through a partnership with the Georgetown Memory Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society launched an online research portal containing information about the approximately 272 enslaved people who were sold in 1838 by the Georgetown University’s Jesuit administrators. The GU272 Memory Project is a unique resource for African American family history and presents the first compiled online data for the GU272 and their descendants.
