You should be and rightfully are proud of your Mayflower ancestors. Lucky for you the records are available and accurate. Can you imagine how scary I must have been to literally leave everything behind like that? The fact that many left due to political oppression served as a catalyst, but one still needed to be strong to do this with any modicum of satisfaction. The closest we may get to that kind of Marco-Polo courage is going to be maybe 15 years from now, when the man who owns Virgin Air has raised enough money to start the first colony on Mars. He will provide for your one way ticket to Mars. Your space ship will be designed to disintegrate once you reach the red soils of the Martian lands. I probably will NOT be among the first ten people.
Nothing much to be proud of, really. I didn’t pick them, and there must be millions of us that have descended.
I was just lucky enough to have been able to trace it back. And, for whatever it is worth, there are a lot of disreputable apples in the old family tree.
One the other side of my father’s family, (Scots) - had to leave Scotland at night, rowing out to a boat - one step ahead of the English - had something to do with “The Clearances” and disobeying the law.