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The most exhaustive and authoritative published work to date about those
who arrived in New England during 1620-1633 has been compiled by the Great Migration Study Project sponsored by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in "The Great Migration Begins - Immigrants to New England 1620-1633" Robert Charles Anderson, Boston, 3 volumes, 1995. The goal of the Project is "to provide a concise, reliable summary of past research on the early immigrants to New England, which will reduce the amount of time which must be spent in discovering this past work, and will therefore serve as a foundation for future research." Anyone
researching the 1620-1633 era should use these volumes as primary references for the best-documented proof of or the best-reasoned
assumptions about the origin of the Finch and other families and their arrival in New England.
Specifically, with regard to Banks "The Winthrop Fleet of 1630" (1930) Anderson states that "Banks made many unwarranted assumptions, and this work should not be considered reliable. Many corrections to the list compiled by Banks will be found in the pages of the present work." Banks source for the Finch family was primarily Mead's monumental "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich" (1911). Thummel (1955, 1965) also cited Mead as his source, although Mead does not reference the sources of his information about the immigrants
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