>From the rootsweb.com mailing MANY "MAYFLOWER" LINES UNCOVERED IN WORLDCONNECT by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG Last week RootsWeb Review readers were requested to send the name(s) of their "Mayflower" ancestor(s) along with their WorldConnect file name. You responded. Your editors are still buried under the flurry of responses. Some of you sent your firstborn, and/or hogs, butter, milk and eggs (living persons and nonedible items will be returned collect). Others thought they would slip in a bogus "Mayflower" progenitor (did you really think we'd fall for Peter Rabbit?), while a few, eager to share their dazzling pilgrim pedigrees, sent GEDCOMs, colored charts, photographs, and assorted files -- with unknown extensions that we have not been able to pry open. A few figured out their WorldConnect file name (it is what appears just after the equals sign once you have successfully uploaded your GEDCOM to WorldConnect). Example: (worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=sonavan) However, some were so confused about "file name" that they sent us the secret name of their GEDCOMs residing on their PCs and Macs in the hinterlands. (Your GEDCOM file names are safe with us). We appreciate your eagerness to provide information. However, we decided not to include the file names in our report this week since we are unable to verify many of them. Let us tell you a secret for finding "Mayflower" lines in WorldConnect. Type in the given and surname of a particular individual at: <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi> and include the birth place of England; then do a search. "Mayflower" ancestors (with the number of readers who indicated to us that such a progenitor was in their uploaded GEDCOM at WorldConnect) are: Alden, John 5; Allerton, Isaac 2; Billington, John 1; Bradford, William 4; Brewster, William 4; Browne/Brown, Peter 1; Chilton, James 4; Cooke, Francis 4; Doty, Edward 0; Eaton, Francis 1; Fletcher, Moses 0; Fuller, Edward 1; Fuller, Samuel 1?; Hopkins, Stephen 6; Howland, John 5; More, Richard 0; Mullins, William 4; Priest, Degory 1; Rogers, Thomas 1; Samson, Henry 0; Soule, George 4; Standish, Myles 2; Tilley, John 5; Warren, Richard 3; White, William 1; Winslow, Edward 2. No one reported being descended from: Edward Doty, Moses Fletcher, Richard More, or Henry Samson. However, there is at least one file in WorldConnect for each "Mayflower" progenitor -- except Moses Fletcher. Fletcher died early in 1620/21 in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. He is the only "Mayflower" passenger (known to date) whose family and descendants (he had 10 children by his first wife, Mary Evans) remained in Holland and did not immigrate to New England. -- Scottie Mother of Wade Researching surnames Wade, Scott, Mabry,Cossitt, Father(r)ee, Carroll, Wise, Lacy, Boggan, Harden/in, Thornton,Fuller, Howles, Miles, Sapp, Westerfield,Whittinghill, Dewees(e), Langley, Early,Bozarth, DuPuy, Rose, and others