Any other Mayflower Descendants out there?
10-01-2010, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by ChubbyBunny
Originally Posted by DebraK
oh my! so do I. Do you feel any more special than any one else. History is great. Every one's history is great.
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.
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!! ;-)
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!! ;-)
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.
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!! ;-)
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!! ;-)
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.
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