Week 47 Nov 19-25—Thankful
Celebrating with the Pilgrims
By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2018
My ancestors were not in what became the United States in 1621 when the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving. My family started arriving a few years later to settle in New Netherland, New Sweden, and Virginia. However, my husband’s family participated in the 1621 feast as he descends from John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
It has been my genealogical duty and great pleasure to share this information with all of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, which now totals 13 generations with the great-grands.
I am thankful for the genealogists — amateurs and professional — who came before and to all who have shared their research and data with me. Their generosity has made my work (if you can call it that) much easier.
Along the way I’ve met (in person and electronically) numerous distant cousins-in-law, and some I know only by their published works.
Our connection to Mayflower passengers, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, winds back through history via ancestors named Pierson, Ayers, Byram, and Alden — from Missouri to Ohio, New Jersey and back to Massachusetts. It has been an historical adventure and a genealogical journey to trace this line, and I’ve enjoyed every mile of the trip.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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