Re: [WikiMayflower] Mayflower scope

[Tim Wilder]

I am a bit confused about what is included in this project. Is it only the Mayflower passengers, or are you concerned with the next generations and with the English ancestry of the  Mayflower passengers?

[NvrDul]

Was there a answer to this question that I missed?

I like the idea of working on the next generations first and then
coming back to the English ancestry at some time in the future. By
going in this direction we are likely to gain more people/information
than otherwise.

[Lianne Lavoie]

No, no one ever answered this one. I'd say that the emphasis is on the Mayflower passengers themselves, but certainly the next couple generations, and perhaps also their ancestry, could also be in the scope of this group.

 

In the Acadian group (which deals with the same sort of time period as this group), I usually do the first settlers, plus their children and grandchildren. By that time, you're getting into people who are less than 300 years old, so it's harder to really do large-scale collaboration on them. Also, there tend to be less duplicates as you get to more recent ancestors, so most of the work will probably be in the first generation or two, anyway.

 

~Lianne