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nativetexan 07-01-2010 08:17 AM

oh gosh, on my Mothers side we go back to the Plantagenent Kings. very interesting to have all that genealogy done for you!

thismomquilts 07-01-2010 08:43 AM

George Rogers Clark... of Lewis and Clark... a distant relative... Also, word has it that Jesse James' cohorts are relatives of ours too...

azdesertrat 07-01-2010 08:45 AM


Originally Posted by Candace
My family came over on the Mayflower. I was baptized in the Christian Congregational Church in Rochester, MA. Which is the Protestant Religion of the Pilgrims. Miles Standish is my great-great etc. grandfather.

my daughters(on their father side) have an ancester that came over on the mayflower,on of the Fuller bros,dont remember which one off hand

countrymaid 07-01-2010 08:50 AM

Rememberance Allerton. Survivor of the first winter.

Janetlmt 07-01-2010 09:01 AM

My ancestor is Sir Dudley Wyatt of Jamestown VA..he was one of the first governing members. He owned the land where The College of William and Mary is located in Williamsburg VA. My mother's distant cousin is Jane Wyatt from Father Knows Best. My mother also went to school with Don Knotts from Andy of Mayberry.

GrammaNan 07-01-2010 09:46 AM

On one side of my family I am a descendent of Peter Stuyvesant. served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (New York) from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.
Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam (later renamed New York) beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway. On the other side of my family I am related to Buford Hayse Pusser of the Walking Tall movie.

redkimba 07-01-2010 10:03 AM

One of my matrilineal ancestors married one of President Polk's daughters.

I'm allegedly the sixth cousin to Jessie James, but I need proof of that first before I believe it.

Pam 07-01-2010 10:30 AM

Gee whiz, guess we were just a bunch of mutts!

Up North 07-01-2010 10:31 AM

Robert Burns the poet is a decedent of mine.

GrammaNan 07-01-2010 10:46 AM


Originally Posted by Pam
Gee whiz, guess we were just a bunch of mutts!

My dad used to say we were "Heinz 57's"(?)


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