Newton man traces ancestry to Mayflower passenger
Jeff Guy
The Newton Kansan
Brad Hopkins will tell you he’s no geneaologist, but through years of perseverance and a little luck, he managed to trace his ancestry back 400 years to a cornerstone event in American history.
For years, the Newton man knew there was a chance he could be related to a passenger on the Mayflower. He just lacked the evidence, that final piece of the puzzle that would confirm his suspicions.
A week before Thanksgiving, the holiday connected with the Mayflower ship’s voyage from England to Plymouth Rock in what would become Massachussetts, Hopkins researched online one more time, trying to make the connection.