Ancestor Links - Photos & Images
Mayflower and Other Emigrants from Leiden, the Netherlands (1600's)
Mayflower and Other Early Emigrant Families from Leiden - to New England and New Netherland/New Amsterdam (New York).
Bird’s-eye view map of Leiden, Netherlands (c.1649) by Joan Blaeu (copy from Wikimedia Commons)
Pieterskerk - St. Peter’s Church - Leiden, Netherlands
Site of Rev. John Robinson and and many Mayflower Pilgrim Families’ houses and garden - Leiden, Netherlands
Hooglandse Kerk (Church) and the Pilgrim Museum - Leiden, Netherlands
Other Links and Images grouped by theme
• Mayflower Voyage to New England - 1620
Replica of the famous Mayflower ship - that early European Pioneer
Settlers of New England sailed aboard - from England to Plymouth,
Massachusetts in 1620.
• Origin of Annual U.S. Thanksgiving Celebration ?
Annual U.S. Thanksgiving Inherited from the Annual Thanksgiving Celebration in Leiden, the Netherlands ?
• Early Voyages to New England (1600's)
Images of the type of sailing vessels used to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the 1600's.
• Early Emigrants from Amsterdam to New Netherland (1600's)
Early Emigrant Families from Amsterdam - to New Netherland/New
Amsterdam (New York) - and the old Dutch West India Company
Headquarters.
• Founders Monuments & Bridges in New England
Memorial Monuments and Bridges have been erected in memory of the Founders of various early Towns in New England.
• Early Towns & Communities in North America
The early pioneer settlers built the first homesteads, schools, churches, businesses, towns, roads, bridges ...
• Notable & Famous Descendants of Early New England Settlers
Notable and Famous Descendants include: Founder of Eastman Kodak;
Founder of the B.F. Goodrich Company; Founder of American Red Cross;
First Woman to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean; Inventors; Architect;
Authors; Poet; Playwright; Actors & Actresses; Colonial and State
Governors of Connecticut, Massachusetts & Vermont; Signers of U.S.
Declaration of Independence; and Presidents of the United States;
Princess of Wales; Duke of Cambridge ...
A popular current term for this is “Notable Kin”.
• DNA Testing for Genealogical Research
DNA test results can provide valuable Genealogical information
- as a complement to traditional Genealogical Research.