You DON’T have to be a US Citizen or live in the US to post here - I’d expect that there are a few Canadians or other Commonwealth citizens who can claim ancestry to a Pilgrim.
Anyone descended from Gov William Bradford is related to me somehow. I’m a direct descendant (all of the kids of kids that he had lead directly to me).
I found out, earlier, that Chefguy and I are distantly related. We’re like 7th cousins or something like that.
Peter C____ came over in the 1690s from Bordeaux and married Penelope White, daughter of Resolved, granddaughter of William. We still have his last name.
But the Daughters of the Mayflower, or whatever they’re called, will not accept this descent. A Peter Browne of the right age to be son of Peter Mayflower Browne did indeed appear in the Plymouth colony by the early 1630’s. But if he was Mayflower’s son, he was an undocumented bastard. :smack:
I’m just flatly amazed - impressed, really - that anyone knows this. I quite honestly cannot even tell you anything about my ancestry beyond my great-grandparents, and I’m unclear on them. How does a person even know this stuff?
None. My earliest ancestor to leave footprints in this country is the Rev. Goodlove. ( I wish I had that name). In the very late 1600s. I also have ties to the SAR from a colonist in Massachusetts. I’ve never met either of them though.
None that I know of for the Mayflower. However, I am a direct descendant of married Jamestown colonists and still have the last name. Jamestown was before the Mayflower as I like to point out to people here in Massachusetts.
Geneology is one of the most popular hobbies in the U.S. Websites like ancestry.com make finding original records and prior geneology work done by relatives no matter how distant fairly easy. I have spent thousands of hour on mine with an indefinite amount still go but it is fairly straightforward to trace a single family line back to historical figures like the people on the Mayflower. Lots of people are interested in proving that so all you have to do is trace your ancestry back far enough so that it connects with work that has already been done and well documented. It is pretty easy to go back really far and still only have a couple of degrees of separation between yourself and say, the U.S. Civil War. Older relatives can often tell you lots of details about relatives that were old when they were young for example taking you back a really long way.
Robert Carter for me. Or at least I think it was Carter. I would have to check with my brother to confirm. He has joined the Mayflower Society. That has always meant less to me.
None. Maternal grandfather is a third generation American immigrant trash, maternal grandmother only moved to the States to be with my grandfather and all my family on my dad’s side are Irish steel workers.