[wintertime]

.too many well-known names that it connects to.
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This isn’t hard to believe since your mother’s line goes back to the 1600s. Your ancestors of that era likely have millions of descendants.

By the way, if your ancestors of the 1600s were in American, you and I are very likely cousins.

[mass55th]

Yep...I have English, Dutch, and German, family members on my mother's side who settled in New Amsterdam, and Dutchess County, NY. Have several ancestors who fought in the French & Indian War, and the American Revolution. Also have some Loyalists who went to Canada. That's the line that caused my mother to be born in Canada. I have one Italian ancestor, my 9th Great-Grandfather Pietro Cesare Alberti. He is supposed to be the first Italian to come to New York.

Pietro Cesare Alberti