So, its YOUR family that started this mess were in now....

Edited to add we could be related. My great great+ grandfather and grandmother were John Alden and Priscilla Mullins famous from Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish.

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Originally posted by BB61:
So, its YOUR family that started this mess were in now....

Edited to add we could be related. My great great+ grandfather and grandmother were John Alden and Priscilla Mullins famous from Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish.

John Alden is not one of my ancestors afaik. We come from the White, Warren, Winslow, Hopkins, and Cooke families. I am also related to Dorothy Bradford, who fell off the Mayflower and drowned while at anchor after arriving at Cape Cod, as a cousin however many times removed.

There's some huge number of Mayflower descendants, many millions. Those early families had tons of kids.

And as a Longfellow connection, 100 years ago my Great Grandparents were innkeepers at The Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts which is the subject of Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn.

^^^^
We're practically cousins.

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Fly-Sig, we may be very distant cousins, too. My maternal grandmother (née White) said that our family history in America went back to the Mayflower but I’ve never seen any proof of that.

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Originally posted by StarTraveler:
Review: A great book for late-night reading—it will put you right to sleep.

Fly-Sig, we may be very distant cousins, too. My maternal grandmother (née White) said that our family history in America went back to the Mayflower but I’ve never seen any proof of that.

Go to familysearch.org and you can pretty quickly find out. The Mayflower descendants have been thoroughly documented, so all you have to do is see if your mom's father's line links back to a White. Chances are good you can search for your grandfather or great-grandfather and will find them already in the database. Familysearch has a fun option where it shows all the famous people you are related to. They'll show if you go back to the Mayflower Whites. The families intermixed a lot, so you probably will then find more Mayflower connections.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:

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Originally posted by StarTraveler:
Review: A great book for late-night reading—it will put you right to sleep.

Fly-Sig, we may be very distant cousins, too. My maternal grandmother (née White) said that our family history in America went back to the Mayflower but I’ve never seen any proof of that.

Go to familysearch.org and you can pretty quickly find out. The Mayflower descendants have been thoroughly documented, so all you have to do is see if your mom's father's line links back to a White. Chances are good you can search for your grandfather or great-grandfather and will find them already in the database. Familysearch has a fun option where it shows all the famous people you are related to. They'll show if you go back to the Mayflower Whites. The families intermixed a lot, so you probably will then find more Mayflower connections.

There’s more than 35 million descendants of the Mayflower arrivals, it’s 16+ generations back. You have 32000 ancestors ALONE in that generation, odds are that one of them was somewhere close

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There’s more than 35 million descendants of the Mayflower arrivals, it’s 16+ generations back. You have 32000 ancestors ALONE in that generation, odds are that one of them was somewhere close

Absolutely! In those earlier centuries families tended to have tons of kids, so the number of descendants of any particular person is quite high.

The cool thing about the Mayflower is that there has been so much good work done to properly document family trees. If someone today can trace back 3 or 4 generations then there is solid confidence if one of the big genealogy sites pops up a connection to the Mayflower. The same goes for other famous and important people. The difficult work of tracking down old records has already been done and is now in computer databases.

There weren't a lot of people and they didn't move around much back in the 1600s and 1700s. As a result there are a lot of closer relationship marriages than we have today, and so the number of ancestors a person has can be a lot less than the mathematical equation. Just following the 5 Mayflower families down to me I discovered numerous cases of 2nd cousins marrying, or brothers of one family marrying sisters of another, and then some of their descendants marrying.