The Great Migration Study Project is an ongoing scholarly endeavor to catalogue all emigrants to colonial New England between 1620 and 1643 (the Puritan great migration

Great Migration (Puritan)

The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a while. The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in this period of English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts and the warm islands of...

). Directed by Robert Charles Anderson

Robert Charles Anderson

Robert Charles Anderson, Director of the , was educated as a biochemist and served in the United States Army in electronics intelligence. In 1972 he discovered his early New England ancestry and thereafter devoted his time and energies to genealogical research...

, it is done in collaboration with the New England Historic Genealogical Society

New England Historic Genealogical Society

The New England Historic Genealogical Society is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in 1845. A charitable, nonprofit educational institution, NEHGS is located at 99-101 Newbury Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, in an eight-story archive and research center....

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The project's first series of volumes, covering immigrants from 1620 to 1633, is entitled The Great Migration Begins. Publication of the second series, covering 1634 and 1635, is ongoing. It is entitled The Great Migration. Anderson edits the series, with two co-editors working on the first two volumes in the latest series, George Freeman Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn.

External links

• http://www.greatmigration.org The Great Migration Study Project
• http://www.newenglandancestors.org The New England Historic Genealogical Society