Interesting article on Mayflower descendent. More of us out there than one would expect!
Are You One of 35 Million Mayflower Descendants? Here’s How to Find Out
@jeanne-mayell my family on my dad’s side has an official book- there were 4 Norman brothers and our branch is descended from Moses Norman (the Normans are descended from William the Conqueror, although I hear that’s not incredibly rare). Dad told me long ago how a genealogist visited his family when he was a child in order to include their family information in his book about the Normans. Long story short, among other interesting ancestors, we are directly descended from William Bradford, who was first governor of Mass and came over on the Mayflower (if I’m recalling correctly without googling it).
@mamaly Like I said, I'm in line from Thomas Rogers, and some Whites who were in the Plymouth Colony. There was a White on the Mayflower, but haven't connected them yet. I've got a Governor, several Ladies and Knights, Freemasons, Native Americans. Luckily the whites that married into the tribe were Quakers. No slaves.
Hi cousin! ? Sorry - I must've missed your post. How cool to find relations here. My Rogers line looks like this...
Thomas Rogers
John Rogers
John Rogers II
Sarah Rogers m. Nathaniel Searle
My mother was a Searle through this line.
Mom's side is pretty much all very early New England colonists, with the except of one Irish line that came over in the early 1800s, right before the famine.
Regards - Mary
No Mayflowers in my lineage known to date. Scottish Highlanders to Georgia and Carolina coasts with some Creek thrown in and then in the 1800's English intermarried with and blended in. Have just begun investigating and tracking with Ancestry. Quite interesting. Did the DNA tests and got results: 40% Scottish 37% England/Northwestern Europe from Wales area the rest are Scandinavian and Native American. Which backs up family stories of some of Scottish ancestors marrying some Creeks early in their arrival/immigration. No known Scandinavians in known family history..that may be Viking remnants supposedly. You can where I got the red hair and freckles from as well as "The Sight" LOL
I have no known links to the Mayflower.
The Harrisons (mom"s maiden) can be traced back to London-7th great grandfather George was born in 1698 and we believe he arrived in Philadelphia in 1729. We can place him & his kids in the same church with George Washington, Betsy Ross, Ben Franklin & other signers of the Declaration of Independence. He's buried within 100 feet of Franklin in the church graveyard. His kids were baptized in the same font as William Penn. His son John resigned his local militia position in the summer of 1776 to become the captain of one of the seafaring vessels fighting for independence. We have the records from the National Archives telling us this, as it and the service of three later generation Harrisons who fought for the Union in the Civil war the following century, were not passed down in tbe family via oral history. It was a surprising find during genealogy research.
What I find highly interesting in this conversation are the number of lightworkers here who are descendents from founding families-especially given the current environment/circumstances. Something tells me it's not a coincidence.
Hi five sis.... No known Mayflower immigres in my lineage either, though the Scottish Highlanders are prevalent. Guess that's where my rebel spirit came from, and 'The Sight' ?
They came through Georgia and thus the Cherokee line is also there ... some were lawyers and breeders of Thoroughbreds, and disenfranchised to walk the Trail of Tears.
My paternal grandmother was also Siouxan and Scot ... she was adopted by a Scottish family, and so, no ancestry records there.
I've never done the Ancestry .com DNA thing, but it is fascinating. One thing I am certain of ... if one's ancestors have been here in this country for centuries, or even by choice in heart more recently, we are All American....
This is a fascinating thread! I am always blown away at people who can trace their lineage back hundreds of years. I am of Ukrainian descent and am only 2nd generation American (father's side) and 3rd generation American (mother's.) I don't know much beyond some names of great-great-grandparents.
Very cool that so many of you have common ancestors from the Mayflower!
Agreed! And continuing that thought, everyone present here from around the world is a global citizen of earth.