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Patricia and Mike Nichols knew their rich family histories intertwined with the founding of Texas and the founding of the Mormon Church.

Not until Patricia probed deeper, however, did she learn that not only did her ancestry trace back to a passenger on the Mayflower, but Mike's also traced back to another of the Pilgrims who established a colony in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620 and celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621.

The Nicholses, of Georgetown, are numbers 2,320 and 2,321 in the official registry of the Mayflower Society of Texas, which includes 2,730 Texans who can prove that they are descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims. They are numbers 73,265 and 73,266 of the relatively select 81,800 members in the national Mayflower Society registry. Various experts in genealogy, including the Mayflower societies, estimate that anywhere from 10 million to 30 million Americans have links to the historic voyage's 51 passengers who survived their first winter in the New World.

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