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I have to ask....is the Miles Standish on our "fearless leaders" page related to the Pilgr

ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,609 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Is he a direct relation, and is he the "tenth" or something?

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    JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    He just looks young; he is actually a grandson!!!

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    savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭
    thread revival


    was it ever determined that he was a relative??


    this is currently on the bay -- Myles or Miles??



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    goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭✭
    Maybe I am dense or something, but WTF is this about?
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    savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭
    Miles Standish is one of PCGS's Board of Experts Link --scroll 3/4 of the way down the page



    There was also a Miles Standish who was an early American settler, do a Wiki lookup

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Miles ain't his real name. He was Mike when we hired him at ANACS, but the release papers from the insane asylum said to humour him and call him "Miles."

    We tried using "Kilometers Standish" for a while, but it didn't take.....

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    MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Funny thread. image
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>We tried using "Kilometers Standish" for a while, but it didn't take. >>



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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant?
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    IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Miles ain't his real name. He was Mike when we hired him at ANACS, but the release papers from the insane asylum said to humour him and call him "Miles."

    We tried using "Kilometers Standish" for a while, but it didn't take.....

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    The story I heard is that on his first day at ANACS, Michael J. Standish made the request "don't
    call me Miles." He has been known exclusively as "Miles" ever since, proving just how contrary
    people really are. It doesn't seem to have hurt him professionally.

    As far as being related to the Pilgrim, don't think so, but feel free to ask him.
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    tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>



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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Miles ain't his real name. He was Mike when we hired him at ANACS, but the release papers from the insane asylum said to humour him and call him "Miles."

    We tried using "Kilometers Standish" for a while, but it didn't take.....

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    The story I heard is that on his first day at ANACS, Michael J. Standish made the request "don't
    call me Miles." He has been known exclusively as "Miles" ever since, proving just how contrary
    people really are. It doesn't seem to have hurt him professionally.

    As far as being related to the Pilgrim, don't think so, but feel free to ask him. >>



    A base canary, er, canard!
    He begged us to call him "Miles."
    TD

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    ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>

    My wife and I discovered we're 12th cousins, both descended from the same Mayflower family.
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    ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,609 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I seem to remember an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies where Jed found he was and Mrs drysdale was p***ed
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>





    I think great-great-great-great-grandma was a "Bekins."

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    bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,350 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This thread reminded me of a bumper sticker on the back of a young man's pickup truck. It said "This may not be the Mayflower, but your daughter came across in it". Having a daughter, I wasn't that amused at the time. Shag
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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    <<<< Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>

    My wife and I discovered we're 12th cousins, both descended from the same Mayflower family. >>

    My wife and I are 7th cousins 3 times removed because of Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower.
    I am my own double 8th cousin because of two lines to John Alden.

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    tcmitssrtcmitssr Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭
    I'm a decedent of two of the three men on the Albany classic commem. That's why I was hacked at not buying the pop 1 MS 68 when I had the chance twice in the last five years. The first time, I was busy upgrading a number of my original coins and didn't want to put so much of my budget into one upgrade. The second time, I didn't know it was available until it was too late.

    Next time....
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    WaltzWaltz Posts: 86
    A Mayflower settler named Thomas Rogers is my 14th great grandfather.

    That and $40,000 will get you a 1909 VDB proof cent in 65 RB.
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    droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    I am most definitely not descended from anyone who came to Plimouth on the Mayflower. My first rellies didn't make it to these shores until sometime in the mid-1700s as far as we can determine. Many records were destroyed during the Civil War when Union soldiers would burn courthouses in Confederate states. Also, there is some speculation that one ancestor moved from Virginia to Kentucky to escape being hung, changed his name, and we don't know his original name.

    (My most recent ancestral arrival was in 1923.)
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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    <<A Mayflower settler named Thomas Rogers is my 14th great grandfather.

    That and $40,000 will get you a 1909 VDB proof cent in 65 RB.>>

    Worse than that, you get my wife and me for very distant cousins.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of my ancestors watched the Mayflower landing and said
    "Well, there goes the neighborhood!"

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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    My favorite story (true) is the Indian that came out of the woods and said "Welcome Englishmen, do you have any beer?" and he got it.
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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>

    My wife and I discovered we're 12th cousins, both descended from the same Mayflower family. >>



    Oh, don't feel bad about that.

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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    Who do you expect us to marry? Strangers?!
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who did Adam and Eve's kids marry???
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    MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,498 ✭✭✭


    << <i>is the Miles Standish on our "fearless leaders" page related to the Pilgrim? >>



    I don't know, but I wonder if the "Ron Howard" on our "fearless......... nevermind image
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    droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Who did Adam and Eve's kids marry??? >>



    Each other. Unless there were space aliens involved.
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    WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    My great-great-great Uncle J.G. Wentworth offered to buy out Standish’s structured settlement, a lucrative one that he had received from the founders of Plymouth in 1620. Wentworth’s relentless efforts to obtain this settlement kept Standish at arms length, but was able to dodge Wentworth when he finally moved to Detroit.
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    bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
    Miles looks to be closely related to Jim Carrey as well.image
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