TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 familie...

L4sBot@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 familie...

mem_somerville_kbin@kbin.social · 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s a little like people who went to Harvard–you find this out within 2 minutes of conversing with them. I do a lot of local history stuff in this area, and…yeah. There’s a lot of them.

I was amused to watch a film recently called The Last of the Winthrops. So some lines peter out eventually…

mem_somerville_kbin@kbin.social · 1 year ago

Egads. A Christian homeschooling site though? Be very wary of any “history” or “science” you might encounter there. Ask for evidence.

TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 familie...

TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 familie...

10 Things You Might Not Know about the Mayflower - AOP Homeschooling