- Joined
- May 31, 2019
It's something he claims to "humble" himself along with the "and he fell off the boat once they got there" bit, no idea if it's true. Bob sometimes makes these strange claims like "I live in the most racist state NOT filled with deplorables." which never make sense to outsiders.
My best guess is the Mayflower thing is more a weird Appeal to Authority where he thinks that gives him some elevated status instead of the reality of no one giving a shit.
Dating your relatives back to the Mayflower is really no big deal at all. Anyone with even a drop of English blood could probably do it after some research and digging. Of course most people will probably encounter serious roadblocks in their genealogical research, as its impossible for anyone - apart from members of active Royal families - to trace their lineage reliably beyond three or so centuries. So much information has been mis-recorded. A Victorian historian muddled part of my family tree with shoddy research, and the famous colonial family we all thought we had all been related to, turns out to not be related to us at all. There were so many people with similar names living in settler times, and passing those names down through the generations, that it becomes impossible to say who was who with certainty.
In any case, because of pedigree collapse and mathematics, it's almost a certainty that everyone of European descent is a direct descendant of Charlemagne:

So you’re related to Charlemagne? You and every other living European…
The advent of cheap genetic sequencing has given birth to a burgeoning ancestry industry. But before you pay to spit in a tube, let me give you a few facts for free

Which means that Bob is even less special than he thinks, since he, and all of the MidWestern Mayonnaise Ghouls he hates, are all descendants of Kings.