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...

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....