[dp0622]

Wow, that was great!

Can’t wait to tell the nephews and nieces to be proud of their heritage and not to buy the bull ####.

Some people on this board can trace their families to the 1600s!!!!!!!!

My father wasn’t even born here. He came as a child circa 1920s.

So I guess there’s a stronger attachment to ancestors.

Like I said, it is and will slip away with each generation. And that’s ok.

[imardmd1]

The progenitors of my great-great-great grandfather's cousins came over with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. David Morton. They were refugees from the slaughter of non-conformists by Mary Stuart's Papist minions as well as by her father's proto-Anglican Royalists. They were also apart from, and reviled by, Cromwell's Puritans,

This group known as Pilgrims were just a small assembly of Christians meeting in Scrooby, England, refusing to follow the government-sponsored priesthood. They met together apart from organized religion to follow Christ by seeking His religion of the Bible, and living as God-fearing Christians looking out for each other.

They were forced out of England, and migrated to the Netherlands, then a powerful Protestant nation. There they maintained their church fellowship for many years under hardship, but were not persecuted as in England, until they returned to Plymouth and set out for the New World to be free of statist religion. David Morton was with them.

They most certainly believed in separation of the state and religion functions.