Trisha viewing the headstone AFTER Phillip found it. Chicago, Illinois 2014
Wordless Wednesday – Honoring My Ancestors
Wordless Wednesday – Shorter College Sewing Club
Early 1900s in North Little Rock, Arkansas - Photo courtesy of University of Arkansas, Little Rock Special Collections
Wordless Wednesday – St. Paul AME Church Choir Newport, Arkansas
My Granny, Gladys Denson Mays, standing second from the left - Photo courtesy of the James Morgan Collection, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Happy Birthday, Alex Haley
I read Alex Haley's Roots when I was 12 years old with my Granny during summer break. I remember not wanting to go outside and play, so she told me I had to read a book if I was going to stay inside. My Granny had been a teacher/high school guidance counselor for over 50... Continue Reading →
Wordless Wednesday – My Family Photos Made Into A Book
Trisha Mays-Cummings
AAHGS 43rd National Conference – October 12-15, 2022
The Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society has announced that the 43rd National Conference is now open for registration. This year's conference will be virtual on October 12-15, 2022. There will be sessions on DNA, research methodologies, how to research online, how to research during slavery for both the slave and the slave owner, and... Continue Reading →
Relative Race Is Back – Season 10 Premieres on Sunday, September 18, 2022 on BYUTV
If you have been following my blog or podcast for anytime at all, then you know how much I love the TV show Relative Race. Relative Race is a genetic DNA reality show. It consists of four teams that are racing across America in search for their relatives that they have never met before. They... Continue Reading →
Wordless Wednesday – The Birthday Girl is 45 Today
Trisha Mays-Cummings
Wordless Wednesday – Celebrating Our 22nd Year of Marriage
Phillip and I at the University of Arkansas in 1996
Wordless Wednesday – Members of Emory Chapel United Methodist Church in Newport, Arkansas
Members of Emory Chapel United Methodist Church in Newport, Arkansas during the 1950s - Photo courtesy of the Jackson County Historical Society
Wordless Wednesday – My In-Laws, the Cummings Family
Mrs. Phyllis Cummings, Phillip, William (III), Adrian, Constance (in the middle), and Mr. William Cummings
I Am Featured in the July/August 2022 Issue of Family Tree Magazine
I started this journey over 10 years ago alone in the library looking through census records on microfilm. I wrote out my family tree by hand from the one funeral program I had of my Granny's and the newspaper obituaries of my other three grandparents and my great grandmother. I hadn't read any genealogy reference... Continue Reading →
Journey Through the Generations 