[blam]

"I used to work with a guy who said that he had traced his geneology back to one of the natives who killed Magellan. "

I traced my family DNA and my grandmother (Mrs Smith) is related to this guy.

[yarddog]

Just about all the first families of Virginia were descended from Pocahontas. (for instance Robert E. Lee) Her line almost died out too. She had only one child then that one also had only one and the next had only one but they all survived.

Finally one had around five and the line was fairly safe from then on.