Anyone a descendent of someone on the Mayflower?

[Anonymous]

No but I am descended from the guy who OWNED the Mayflower. We all think the Mayflower settlers are nouveau arrivistes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, not the Mayflower, my immigrant ancestor landed in Plymouth in 1620, I believe he missed the first Thanksgiving! As I like to quip, "Old family, no money." Tee hee!

NA poster from above. So basically your ancestors were undocumented moochers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, not the Mayflower, my immigrant ancestor landed in Plymouth in 1620, I believe he missed the first Thanksgiving! As I like to quip, "Old family, no money." Tee hee!

NA poster from above. So basically your ancestors were undocumented moochers!

Weren't all the new settlers undocumented moochers? Immigration laws needed to be stricter back then!

[Anonymous]

my mother is in DAR and it is a great organization. they do a lot of wonderful things to preserve historic places and promote history in general. why wouldn't you want to be proud of your heritage? don't understand the feeling of not having any connection with your ancestors.

[Anonymous]

Colonists and their descendants did some good but also a lot of criminal shit to be able to afford to do that good.

[Anonymous]

Yes, ancestors on my father's side came over on the third voyage from England after the Mayflower (I believe in 1636). My family is remarkably undistinguished for having been here for so long. One guy who was supposed to sign the Declaration of Independence had to go home early because someone in his family got sick. One distant cousin, however, was a first lady, as I learned in junior high upon seeing her picture in my history textbook. The caption said she was "renowned for her great beauty." Alas, those genes were not passed down to me....

I also have a friend who is involved in DAR, and I have thought about joining because the charitable work they do in the areas of literacy and civic education appeals to me. But it does seem somehow anti-American to base an organization's membership on ancestry.

[Anonymous]

Recently found out that DH is related to four guys from the Mayflower (the Cookes, Richard Warren, and George Soule), all through one branch of his family (mother's mother). If you are a white person from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut, odds are pretty high that you are descended from one of them.

He is also eligible for SAR, through both his mother's mother and his father's mother's sides. It used to be very difficult to document the connections, which is what made DAR and the Mayflower Society so exclusive. It wasn't the fact of it but the ability to document it. Most families didn't have the records, but again, if you are from New England, odds are that you had an ancestor in the Revolutionary War, too.

[Anonymous]

Not really sure when/how my family arrived, I know they were on Nantucket by the 1640s.

[Anonymous]

No, but my family's been here for a few hundred years. I'm a DAR, ancestors fought on both sides of the Civil War, and one of my ancestors was on the Lewis & Clark expedition. I hope I can get my dad to write all this stuff down before he dies.

[Anonymous]

If you are a white person from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut, odds are pretty high that you are descended from one of them.

Not quite! I was the only one among my white friends from Connecticut whose ancestors arrived in the early 1600s.

[Anonymous]

many "white" people in that region of the country are irish, italian or jewish. lots of germans and polish as well. not exactly the mayflower crowd.

[Anonymous]

Do any PP's actually have proof? I feel like its an urban legend in most families. I mean there are a lot of ppl saying their family was on here and it seems like a lot.

I only have proof that one side was here in 1630s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do any PP's actually have proof? I feel like its an urban legend in most families. I mean there are a lot of ppl saying their family was on here and it seems like a lot.

I only have proof that one side was here in 1630s.

I posted earlier about being a direct descendent of William Bradford. My grandfather had all of the genealogical records and I remember my dad showing them to me. I don't have it with me. I know he was able to trace back most parts of the the family tree well into the 1600s or earlier, except for the German side because a lot of those records were destroyed during WWII.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do any PP's actually have proof? I feel like its an urban legend in most families. I mean there are a lot of ppl saying their family was on here and it seems like a lot.

I only have proof that one side was here in 1630s.

to get into DAR, my mom had to have lots of documented proof.

[Anonymous]

No, but my family (dad's father's side) was supposedly run out of Missouri for being horse thieves in the 1850s.

We do know they show up in VA records in 1840, in MO records in 1850, and then in VA records again in 1860. We lose track of them sometime in the 18th century; no record that anyone on that side fought in the Revolution, but we do have some who fought for the Confederacy.

Similar story on my dad's mother's side, but minus the horse thieves -- both families have been in the Shenandoah Valley for 150+ years.

On my mom's side: her dad was an Irish immigrant who came to WV from Pennsylvania. Her mom claims descent from a junior branch of the Mori clan, who was notable for fighting the Odas during the 16th century.