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American History

bucolic_frolic

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8. I only learned this year

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:43 PM

Oct 2020

that a Mayflower Pilgrim's niece married my direct ancestor. So even though I was thought of as mostly a 19th century hodgepodge, I go back a bit further in North America. Sadly my parents never knew, even though the genealogy of Mayflower Pilgrims has been well documented for hundreds of years. Ancestry.com was not much help 20 years ago. Now it's all coming together as it, and other websites, and state archives become digitized.

I bet a DNA test about me would be all wrong. I can prove my 6 European links. Has DNA testing been validated against actual known trees from contemporary written records? I doubt it. The categories are so general.

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'It was four hundred years ago today that the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, [View all] elleng Sep 2020 OP

My wife's direct line was on the Speedwell CanonRay Sep 2020 #1

I lived in New England and everybody there thinks the all came over on that boat JDC Sep 2020 #2

There is a lot of truth to that though. GemDigger Sep 2020 #3

I have some ancestors that came over on the Mayflower csziggy Sep 2020 #4

My ancestors..... DFW Oct 2020 #5

Wampanoag and Pamet arrowheads! elleng Oct 2020 #6

Most people only see the pretty towns or the beaches DFW Oct 2020 #7

I only learned this year bucolic_frolic Oct 2020 #8