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    Old 10-01-2010, 03:30 PM
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    Originally Posted by ChubbyBunny
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    oh my! so do I. Do you feel any more special than any one else. History is great. Every one's history is great.
    I definitely have a better appreciation for Thanksgiving. It makes for some very interesting discussion at the dinner table. I love history and learning about my family roots.
    Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday just for its name. I give thanks, I welcome them. That is the spirit for me. Yeah, I know the history.
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    Old 10-01-2010, 03:53 PM
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    Not the Mayflower, but have ancestors considered to be Pilgrims... Robert Wixom (Wixam, Wickham) arrived on America's shores in 1630...
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    Old 10-01-2010, 04:43 PM
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    My ancestors John and William Boynton came to America in 1638. We are descendants of Burton Agnes Hall in Yorkshire, England. My father always said that some of our ancestors were here to greet the Mayflower.
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    Old 10-01-2010, 04:45 PM
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    No Mayflowers here, all my ancestors were born here. :)
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    Old 10-01-2010, 05:09 PM
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    My mother's family ancestor's (Southwicks) supposedly did come over on the Mayflower. I am a direct descendant of Cassandra Southwick who was persecuted in Salem for being a Quaker.
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    Old 10-01-2010, 06:20 PM
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    ohhh! one of favorite pastimes is genealogy. :mrgreen: I've spent approx. 40 years in researching all of our families, and with some luck, I've found quite a few other living descendants from the same tree. My husband is 12th generation male descendant of Elder Wm Brewster. We occasionally make a pilgrimage back to his ancestors home town in northern Vermont. It's sooo beautiful there!

    We have a lot of very old family photos and I've scrapbooked copies of the photos with family stories and the family tree. I give them away to distant family and we've made some wonderful "new" friends in other states that are from the same "branch".

    This is a subject dear to my heart.... I had better stop or I will bore all of you tears!! ;-)
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    I remember my mom and dad and my grandma, but further than that? Nada...
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    Old 10-01-2010, 06:28 PM
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    Yup, I was born and raised in MA. Baptized as a Christian Congregationalist(Puritan's religion) and I'm a descendant of Miles Standish. We came over on the Mayflower. Then my relatives proceeded to become ministers, alcoholics, racists and bigots not necessarily in that order. A long pedigree is sometimes over-rated.
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    Old 10-01-2010, 06:38 PM
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    Originally Posted by Melody
    ohhh! one of favorite pastimes is genealogy. :mrgreen: I've spent approx. 40 years in researching all of our families, and with some luck, I've found quite a few other living descendants from the same tree. My husband is 12th generation male descendant of Elder Wm Brewster. We occasionally make a pilgrimage back to his ancestors home town in northern Vermont. It's sooo beautiful there!

    We have a lot of very old family photos and I've scrapbooked copies of the photos with family stories and the family tree. I give them away to distant family and we've made some wonderful "new" friends in other states that are from the same "branch".

    This is a subject dear to my heart.... I had better stop or I will bore all of you tears!! ;-)
    You won't bore me! I'm an amateur Genealogist. I am going to try to take my children to the Alden Family home in Plymouth, Mass. one of these days. I'd love to go in autumn.
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    Old 10-01-2010, 06:40 PM
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    Originally Posted by Candace
    Yup, I was born and raised in MA. Baptized as a Christian Congregationalist(Puritan's religion) and I'm a descendant of Miles Standish. We came over on the Mayflower. Then my relatives proceeded to become ministers, alcoholics, racists and bigots not necessarily in that order. A long pedigree is sometimes over-rated.
    Yikes! I wasn't bragging about my "pedigree". I just think history and genealogy are interesting.
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