Yes, my grandmother always always tells us we could be part of the DAR too. As if we care! It's neat to be able to trace back that far but nothing more than that. On my dads side we have an annoying aunt who always tells us we have a great uncle or something buried at congressional cemetery too, whatever that means

We have one - one of the (people with the last name of ) Whites on the ship.

Yes, I had two ancestors on the Mayflower and one on another ship!

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My grandmother was quite proud of this fact because she thought it made her better than anyone who arrived post-Mayflower. I have never cared, except for the single time it came in useful: when my MIL was bragging about being eligible for DAR because "her people" had been in
America for oh so long. I replied with something about "yeah, my grandma was excited about the Mayflower Society" (or whatever it's called) and my MIL apparently thought I'd one-upped her with my ancestor's earlier immigration.

Haha. You should do the paperwork for your kids and teach them to say, "on my mother's side..."

My ancestors did not arrive until the 1820-1840. I was able to trace one branch of the family tree to 1240. Cuntz des Wasgau Kuntz. I have no idea who he is other than he is my 18th great grandfather

Anyone a Native American?

All modern humans are descended from the same small group of humans who walked out of Africa 2000 generations ago and spread throughout Eurasia.

Aren't most of us supposed to be descended from Genghis Khan? Dude couldn't keep his yurt flap zipped!

I think genealogy is neat.

I am a descendant of Genghis Khan, which makes me a DOG.
And DH is a descendant of Babur the Mughal Emperor, which makes him a SOB. I knew it.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't think so but wouldn't cop to it if true.

Why not? It is pretty much meaningless. There is nothing special about it.

I'm the OP and I'm not related to anyone from the Mayflower but I do think it's special because it's an interesting part of history. Not better than being descended from any one of a number of other interesting things in history (I mean we all have a story) but I do think it's interesting. People get weirdly defensive about this kind of thing on here. I'm a history buff and I like these things and tomorrow is Thanksgiving!

I think it would be cool to be descended from the baby born on the ship or Myles Standish (spelling ?) because he's in the Charlie Brown special, lol. It was such a rough voyage...I think it's interesting to find out a family member in the past undertook something like that. Can you imagine being a lady that had a baby on that boat! Crazy.

Yes.

I don't remember all of the specifics and how many relatives and of what sort. But my grandfather was very specific that we were directly related to William Bradford. Strange, but true. And fairly meaningless, IMO. He and a couple of my uncles were/are genealogy nuts.

Anonymous wrote:Don't think so but wouldn't cop to it if true.

Why not? It is pretty much meaningless. There is nothing special about it.

Yes. My grandmother was quite proud of this fact because she thought it made her better than anyone who arrived post-Mayflower. I have never cared, except for the single time it came in useful: when my MIL was bragging about being eligible for DAR because "her people" had been in
America for oh so long. I replied with something about "yeah, my grandma was excited about the Mayflower Society" (or whatever it's called) and my MIL apparently thought I'd one-upped her with my ancestor's earlier immigration.

Don't think so but wouldn't cop to it if true.

...or any other Pilgrim ship from the early/mid 17th century?