When I first became aware of my husband's family being descendants of a man that came to "the new world" on the Mayflower I thought it was a hoax. As the lady on the phone was asking me questions about my children's names and birth dates, visions of those fake family crests came to mind. I don't think I hung up on her (she said she lived here),  but I am sure I cut her off without any answers.
We had been married almost 20 years and no one in the Long family had clued me in about this fact. Apparently,they knew Edward Doty was on the Mayflower but he was not a Pilgrim or a member of the crew: he was a lowly indentured servant. Plus he got in typical teenage trouble with the "law" after they landed. So no big deal?
After a bit of research I was appalled that he was so disregarded. He helped construct most of the buildings in the settlement. Lived through that horrific first winter helping bury half of the population. Became an outstanding member of the community and his daughter Desire married Miles Standish's son Alexander.
  Here is the timeline from the Mayflower to the Long family here in Indiana.

1620 Edward Doty(1) on the Mayflower, lands close to what is later called Plymouth Plantation.He does sign the Mayflower Compact.
1678 Edward's son, Samuel,(2) moves from the original settlement to Piscataway( now N.J.) He has joined the militia and marries Jane Harmon.
1740 After two generations ; Samuel(2) and his son, Samuel (3), then John (4), who is the fifth child of third generation Samuel, is born there in Piscataway, grows up and signs a lease for 300 acres at Basking Ridge, N.J. , 1739-40. Then John is recorded living in Morris N.J. 1746. There are reports of John being scalped while fighting Indians.
1790 In that year's census for Westmorland Co.Pa. John's son , Sam(5)appears along with his kin, Daniel and Johnathan.
1810 Sam(5) is in the Vandango Co. Pa. census.
1829 His son ,Sam(6) has moved to Butler Co. Oh. Other members of that migration group include son Joseph(7) who was born in Pa. Both Sams live out their lives there in Ohio along with Joseph,s mom, Ketura ,who is reported to have lived to the age of 110 there .
1837 Joseph Doty (7), having married Effie (Euphima),Thompson in Butler county, Oh. Then pays 200.00 for 40 acres in Warren Co. In. , around the town of Independence In. 
1868 After Joseph's(7) daughter, Euphamia(8) is married to Henry Harrison Gerrard, April 16, 1861. They move over the state line to Iroquois, Ill., where they have 3 children, including our own Zillah Euphamia(9). They move back to Indiana where Zillah(9) grows to womanhood and marries John Long.
1904 Zillah Euphamia(9) has a son Gaylord Washington Long(10) who grows up in Morroco, In.. He joins Gast Construction road crew, moves to Warsaw In. on a job,where he meets and marries Martha Hoover from Syracuse. In. They settle here and have 3 children including Glen Gaylord Long(11) born in 1932. He grew up and married me, Janice Diane Anglin.