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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

Very few people are descendents from the original Mayflower that came over in 1620-1621. Of the 102 people on board, only 53 survived the first winter - and of those only 5 were women.  Then a second ship also called the Mayflower sailed 5 times in the 1930s before being lost at sea on its 6th voyage.

We have documentation that my ancestors came over on the 3rd or 4th trip of the Mayflower. [/quote]

This is not true!  Which is one reason it is so puzzling why people are so uncomfortable about being descended from pilgrims/the people on the Mayflower.  We aren't talking about the King here!  It doesn't make you US royalty, lol, but it isn't anything to be ashamed of...anymore than any other colonial period anyway.  The colonists did do some shameful things to be sure...but that's people for you.

But it is an interesting part of history and I think it's fun to know where your family was, and if they were involved in notable periods of history, even if by this point any of us related to them are probably only marginally moreso than the rest of humankind, lol.  But it is actually not at all rare to be descended from someone who was on that 1620-21 Mayflower!  See below from the history network, George Mason U

Of the 102 passengers of the Mayflower, 24 males produced children to carry on their surnames. And although approximately half of the Mayflower passengers died at the plantation during the harsh winter of 1620-21 (one passenger had died at sea while another was born before landing), today, a staggering 35 million people claim an ancestral lineage that runs all the way back - sometimes through fifteen generations - to the original 24 males. That number represents 12 percent of the American population. A relatively small number of the descendants of one of those males, Governor William Bradford, met at the Major John Bradford House in Kingston in August.

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