Each issue is approximately 100 pages plus an annual every-name index in summer. 

Mayflower Descendant has long been a highly regarded source of scholarship relating to Mayflower families and related genealogies, their origins in England, and their lives and places of residence in America, from the earliest settlements to their migrations north and westward.

First published in 1899 by George Ernest Bowman, founder of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Mayflower Descendant is now published by American Ancestors. The journal continues to be a significant source of genealogical and historical scholarship and maintains its historic standards.