I'm just curious. I'm sure I have some distant cousins out there. :-) John Alden and Priscilla Mullins are my 9th Great Grandparents. Anyone else a Mayflower Descendant?

I have several. Including Alden and Mullins. New England ancestry is interesting. While I am mixed race and very diverse, all of my New England ancestors are cousins. Small breeding pool.

The only connection I have to the Pilgrims is my love of thanksgiving! :-D

Hi, I have an odd connection. I am English and live in the UK. The Mayflower sailed from Europe and docked at Plymouth to take on board the Pilgrims going to the New World.

My ancestor actually got off at Plymouth and moved up country and settled in the North Devon/South Somerset area and became a yeoman farmer.

Funny old world, because if he had not done that I would have been an American instead.

Have some back to the revolutionary war, from Germany and assorted prior to that, someone traced back one line to 1500 and Scotland, Glad some of the relatives did the Tree, interesting reading.

My husband's family have direct ties. My BIL is big on geneology. I can't get past yesterday LOL so of course I never remember how the trail goes.

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 don't mean to be offensive. Maybe it is a sign of the times. We are who we are.

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.

Isn't it amazing how one action by an ancestor affects the lives of all his/her descendants?!

Hello, cousin! It was a very small breeding pool and it's a small world.

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.

Not the Mayflower, but have ancestors considered to be Pilgrims... Robert Wixom (Wixam, Wickham) arrived on America's shores in 1630...

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.

No Mayflowers here, all my ancestors were born here. :)

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.

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!! ;-)

I remember my mom and dad and my grandma, but further than that? Nada...

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.

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.

Yikes! I wasn't bragging about my "pedigree". I just think history and genealogy are interesting.

lol, do you have the papers that say so? Pedigree is everything, you know ;-)

My BIL is a descendent of Wm and Sarah Brewster, too.

As for me, well I'm peasant stock of a bunch late 19th and early 20th century Germans and Swedes. I've been working on DH's. My DH has CWar, RWar, and 17th century Dutch and I think Mayflower (not proven yet) roots. What fascinates me about genealogy is how it brings history closer to you. My DH's ancesters Rebecca and Norman lived through the summer of 1815, the year there was no summer. The extreme hardships they endured in New England because of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia is mind boggling. Yet they survived.

Hey, I'm a Hall descendent, too!
One interesting item I have from the past is the journal one of my relatives kept during the American civil war. Glad I wasn't around then.

You might get a chuckle over this.
I was taking a university course on the multicultural classroom, and we decided to have a potluck dinner to which we each brought a dish that reflected our cultural background. They told me I was cheating when I brought apple pie - now, what's more American than apple pie? Apparently I was supposed to pick something "farther back" but I thought those roots went back pretty far already!

Mine too!! Well not all of them, mine breeded with the pilgrims.

I don't know when she came over, but one of my ancestors was executed as a witch in Salem. (Don't remember her name off-hand.) That's a pretty cool family story at Halloween. Ooooohhhh.

My family line is Cherokee, over and over. We were cousins to the Indians that met the Mayflower :D :D

What!!

And your ancestors didn't push the off Plymouth Rock and back into the water?......LOL

J/k :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Gosh, me neither! And it isn't even "my" pedigree! Little did DH know (and neither did I until we went on a researching hunt with some of my elderly aunts who had tales to tell:shock: ) that he married into a for sure enough, backwoods, moonshining... er... that is to say, hill people. (begging anyone's pardon, and please don't take offense because I am speaking of my family tree only ) :-D

Besides, it's all about history and it's all interesting to me. :-)
Melody

I have several American tribes and American and European witches, too. One was burned alive for making poppets in the 15th century (back when non-essential sewing was evil lol).

Genealogy is fun but I also try to remember that not every paper relationship is a biological relationship. The current percentage of men unknowingly raising someone else's child is pretty high. Some think it's a long standing biological imperative. DNA genealogy can corroborate some lines (if the context is clear).

Anyone having eagle and lobster for Thanksgiving? Oh, if only having a traditional meal weren't illegal...

One of my cousins got into geneology really big time. He contacted another more distant cousin who had done even more research and got this incredibly detailed lineage that had been traced back to the emperor Charlemagne.

Of course none of it really applies to me since I was adopted as an infant, but it's still really interesting to see all the European royalty from various countries listed and then to follow the family as it moved from North Carolina and Virginia to Alabama and Mississippi and then to Louisiana and east Texas then to central Texas...and that last well over 100 years ago.

On my mom's side we can't go back very far as her grandfather and his brother were the ones to come to Texas from Denmark. As far as I know, nobody has tried to find out anything about the family history back in Denmark.

DH's mom's family has been traced back to Scotland and a cousin of Mary Queen of Scots. And there is controversy in his dad's family as to whether or not a great grandmother was Choctaw or Cherokee (or whether she was even native American or not).

Very interesting research if you have the inclination and the time.

My mother's side is from Ireland. Father side is from Cherokee and King Henry the VIII. DH's father and mother side were from Lithuania, escaped Russia to Poland. A lot of political ancestors and hard working farmers in my blood line.

Ministers, moonshiners, political radicals, farmers, factory workers, governors, European and Native American roots....I guess I'm just a mutt.

The family has researched our wigwam and discovered are family dates back to the pre Columbus era. Records are very scarce mainly because Native Americans didn't keep paper documents back then. Our family history back then was mainly passed down through the generations by the spoken word.