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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 7824684, member: 104064"]Once you go back that far, chances seem pretty good that there's some bit of Mayflower blood somewhere. I have a number of ancestors who arrived in the 1630s; I think the earliest was 1629. They all had 10-14 children (many of whom died in early childhood), they all married their friend's sister or brother or their father's friend's kid, etc. They named their kid after their friend's kid, and their friend did the same. So for example you see Thomas Dewey marry Frances Roote sister of Aaron Roote, and their kid is Aaron Dewey, then Aaron Roote's kid is named Thomas Roote, and the genealogy starts looking like spaghetti. When one son died in early childhood, the next son born got the same name. There's one in my tree that was the third kid to be named Aaron, because the first two died. In my case, by the 1660s the same bloodlines were everywhere in New England. I find it all fascinating but looking at my tree makes my head hurt.[/QUOTE]