Rather boring. 1/16 Scottish, no more than 1/16 Welsh, the rest all English, all of which English stock settled in New England at first (thus Yankees), except for my surname line (my paternal grandfather's line), who settled in Virginia, probably sometime in the 18th century. The latest discovery as of this week via the witch disclosure (actually I have two witches in the line apparently), with respect to which someone else has researched the genealogy of all these famous people, is that apparently I am descended from Myles Standish, the military guy on the Mayflower (or maybe a relative of his, that is in dispute), and the Dickinson line (Emily), and the family tree on this original Pilgrim settler branch of the tree goes right back to England as far back as 1450 now in one instance. It's surreal really. One of the relatives in this branch is one Nathanial Foote, whom Wiki states has about a million descendants in the US now (having about six children seemed about the minimum, with often about 10 appearing). It's interesting, but not surprising, that seemingly next to all of these early families intermarried, so I seem related to a bunch of the most of the early names in New England, from two elite families in Rhode Island, Greene and Browne, to Stoddard, Standish and Averill (Averell) in Mass (name spellings were more casual then), and on and on (no Lodges yet sighted however
), absolutely nothing about which I knew a week ago.
