Quote Originally Posted by andyandy
so come on....what were the surprising discoveries??...u cant post that without giving some more details...
There's too much to write here - and it's also pretty self-indulgent, but here's a few items.

I found several Mayflower ancestors, and the one that I have in common with Bush, John Howland, had the misfortune of falling off the ship, and almost drowning! He survived, married a Mayflower passenger named Elizabeth Tilley, and had a bunch of children.

It's mostly the colonial New England ancestry that was so interesting, and some of my ancestors were involved in settling in Martha's Vineyard, and one, named Thomas Mayhew, was the first governor of Nantucket.

I didn't inherit any Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket property, lol.

I knew nothing when I started other than ancestors born in the 19th and 20th century, and one Revolutionary War soldier, born 1753, who had come with the German auxiliarry forces (known as "Hessians") that was captured and subsequently joined the American side. He was the one that I started researching, and that led me to many hundreds of other ancestors before, and after, him - including a handful of other Revolutionary War Soldiers.
It's interesting when you can find their war records, and sometimes even height, religion, units that they belonged to, etc. It makes history much more interesting because it's "personalized".
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