Posted on Aug 7, 2021
Mayflower 400 years: How many people are related to the Mayflower pilgrims?
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Just over four centuries ago, the ship The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth in the UK to the shores of America, carrying with it a group of travellers who would go down in history. For some, these 17th Century "pilgrim fathers" are also real-life ancestors. But for how many?
There are a few estimates out there, all of them quite high. According to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, there are "35 million Mayflower descendants in the world".
And while many Americans are proud to be recent arrivals or second-generation immigrants, making the nation a unique blend of cultures, for others there's an incentive to claim ancestry to these early European arrivals.
Dr Lauren Working, an American historian at the University of Oxford, believes there's an almost aristocratic prestige attached to tracing your family back to the Mayflower.
"It continues to give people a sense of the authority of shared connections with the past. There are so many jokes about America being so young and not really having much of a history.
There are a few estimates out there, all of them quite high. According to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, there are "35 million Mayflower descendants in the world".
And while many Americans are proud to be recent arrivals or second-generation immigrants, making the nation a unique blend of cultures, for others there's an incentive to claim ancestry to these early European arrivals.
Dr Lauren Working, an American historian at the University of Oxford, believes there's an almost aristocratic prestige attached to tracing your family back to the Mayflower.
"It continues to give people a sense of the authority of shared connections with the past. There are so many jokes about America being so young and not really having much of a history.
Mayflower 400 years: How many people are related to the Mayflower pilgrims?
Posted from bbc.com
United Kingdom
American History
Immigration
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I doubt it. The Puritans were a miserable lot. The dd not get along with others, especially the Quakers. They were Church of England and what we would call EVANGELICALs. No one was pure enough for them including the Church of England. There were more than a few groups that just became extinct.
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I knew that April Showers bring Mayflowers and it’s sad that it also brought sickness and land thief’s and a whole lot more to hurt the Native American/Indian
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This is just the Doty’s: https://www.edwarddoty.org/
Edward Doty - This site is for those interested in The Pilgrim Edward Doty
Welcome to the Pilgrim Edward Doty Society Welcome to the Pilgrim Edward Doty Society. Edward Doty was a passenger on the Mayflower and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. He was one of the original
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