Join Linda MacIver as she examines the early and final history of the Mayflower and the ship's connections to the county of Essex (England), including the ship's captain and signers of the Mayflower Compact. Serving as the New England Representative for the Essex England Record Office, Linda brings a unique perspective to the event that brought ancestors of more than thirty million Mayflower descendants around the world to these shores.

Linda MacIver is an educator, lecturer, librarian, and genealogy researcher. She recently retired from a 27-year career at the Boston Public Library, where she inaugurated the BPL patron genealogy classes. She taught the multi-week beginners' genealogy course for five years and organized two extremely popular seasons of the Local and Family History series. She is the Civil Records Director for Federal Records for the Massachusetts Genealogical Council and a member of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists (MSOG) and the Essex (Mass.) Society of Genealogists (ESOG).