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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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<< <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.
<< <i>Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>
...they once moved me to another house.
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<< <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.....
>>
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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<< <i>Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>
I think great-great-great-great-grandma was a "Bekins."
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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
<<<< 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.
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.
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.)
Me at the Springfield coin show:
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
One of my ancestors watched the Mayflower landing and said "Well, there goes the neighborhood!"
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<< <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.
Down here in Gawga if they ain't yer sister or yer mama they're fair game ! ! !
HH
Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set: 1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S. Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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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was it ever determined that he was a relative??
this is currently on the bay -- Myles or Miles??
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There was also a Miles Standish who was an early American settler, do a Wiki lookup
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We tried using "Kilometers Standish" for a while, but it didn't take.....
<< <i>We tried using "Kilometers Standish" for a while, but it didn't take. >>
<< <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.....
>>
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.
<< <i>Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>
...they once moved me to another house.
<< <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.....
>>
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
<< <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.
<< <i>Anybody else care to admit they are a Mayflower descendant? >>
I think great-great-great-great-grandma was a "Bekins."
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.
Next time....
That and $40,000 will get you a 1909 VDB proof cent in 65 RB.
(My most recent ancestral arrival was in 1923.)
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
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.
"Well, there goes the neighborhood!"
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<< <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.
Down here in Gawga if they ain't yer sister or yer mama they're fair game ! ! !
HH
1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
<< <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
<< <i>Who did Adam and Eve's kids marry??? >>
Each other. Unless there were space aliens involved.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
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