Locating All New England Settlers: 1620 to 1640
Great Migration Project Provides Genealogical & Biographical Account
Jul 22, 2009
This prolific scholarly endeavor by Robert Charles Anderson, and the accompanying multi-volume publishing project, have already been cited as the most significant genealogical study in the past century and certainly rank with the Mayflower Society’s “Five Generations Project”.
The Great Migration Study Project
Anderson is tackling the chronicling of these early New England colonists from both an historical and genealogical perspective, combing everything to be found in both published and unpublished records that relates to this group of immigrants. Anderson has ample credentials as a genealogist, historian and authority on colonial New England. A Fellow of the prestigious American Society of Genealogists, Anderson is co-editor of The American Genealogist and an editorial advisor to the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
The Great Migration Study Project books published to date eclipse the efforts of earlier authorities on the colonial era settlers of New England, most of them emigrants from England.
Books Published to Date
The books are all hardcover and published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston. They are also available on CD.
- The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1996, 2,386 pages, three volumes, containing the most accurate, up-to-date information on over 900 early New England families. The books identify and describe those who settled in New England prior to the end of 1633.
- The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume I, A-B, 1999, by Anderson,George F. Sanborn, FASG, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, FASG, 635 pages documenting immigration of about 1300 families and individuals to New England.
- The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England: 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Anderson, George F. Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, 740+ pages, 2001, covering surnames from C to F.
- The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England: 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Anderson, 712 pages, 2003.
- The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England: 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Anderson, 475 pages, 2005.
- The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England: 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, by Anderson, 784 pages, 2007.
Other Great Migration Resources
There have been several by-products of Robert Anderson’s Great Migration Project. One is a series of 60 Great Migration Newsletters, which can be purchased in book form or via an online subscription to current issues, which also gives access to the archived ones. To tap related indices and other resources, check in at the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s Great Migration website. (Article continued below)
There are companion articles on why these ancestors came to America, what their occupations were, and a report of their origins in England.
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