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.
In anticipation of the 2020 commemoration of the Mayflower’s voyage, New England Historic Genealogical Society launched the Mayflower 2020 website in November 2017. This interactive website provides extensive resources for researching Mayflower passengers, connecting with Mayflower descendants, and learning the latest Mayflower 2020 news. The site also features the world’s first online gallery of Pilgrim descendants—documenting the ever-increasing diaspora of an estimated 35 million living descendants of the original Mayflower passengers around the world. Mayflower 2020 was featured on the BBC, NPR, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times.
