With her interest kindled, she started studying genealogy and eventually ... back her heritage to about 20 Mayflower passengers, including William Brewster, Stephen Hopkins and John Howland.

The show, which aired Sunday night on NBC, tracks the ancestry of celebrities like Janney, enlightening them on the unknowns of their family tree ... with the Hopkins family on the Mayflower.

William Bradford and Stephen Hopkins. “I was told this growing ... Kiner points to documents spread out in front of her that include a genealogy report of the Bradford family dating back ...

airing Sunday, Oscar-winning actress Allison Janney found out her connection to the Mayflower in 1620 ... the actress traced her family tree all the way back to her 11-times great-grandfather Stephen ...

WHEN the Mayflower sailed from Southampton in 1620 aboard was Hampshire born Stephen Hopkins unique amongst the passengers in that he had already been to North America and had lived in Jamestown ...

NEW BEDFORD — Stephano isn't just a character from Shakespeare's "The Tempest," in fact there is an entire documentary dedicated to his real-life counterpart Stephen Hopkins — and it will ...

David Hulme, from Heaton Mersey, traced his family tree and discovered he's six generations down from Stephen Hopkins, who was among those who travelled to America on the Mayflower in 1620.