My high school graduating class. I'm on row seven on the end of the right side.
Wordless Wednesday – Newport High School Class of 1995
Wordless Wednesday – 106 Year Church Anniversary Celebration: St. Paul AME Church in Newport, Arkansas
Photo courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Wordless Wednesday – Ladies Posing and Smiling
My aunt Mable Dillingham and my mother, Patricia Hatchett Mays - September 1967
Wordless Wednesday – 100th Year Church Anniversary Celebration: Morning Star Baptist Church in Newport, Arkansas
100th year church anniversary program for Morning Star Baptist Church in Newport, Arkansas 1989
Wordless Wednesday – United Harmonizers Gospel Singing Group
My grandfather, Gus Hatchett (2nd from the left) with his singing group the United Harmonizers - Newport, Arkansas circa 1949. Photo courtesy of Jackson County/WA Billingsley Memorial Library
Wordless Wednesday – Brotherly Love
William Cummings, Adrian Cummings, and my husband, Phillip Cummings - Arkansas 2017
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2023: Week 14 – Begins With a Vowel
NOTE: I accepted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge headed by fellow genealogy blogger Amy Johnson Crow in January 2023. The idea behind this challenge is that you will receive email prompts, a word or phrase, every week, and you find something about your research or family history to write about. I write in... Continue Reading →
Celebrating Women’s History Month 2023
March is Women's History Month. Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society and has been observed annually in the month of March in the United States since 1987. I always post information about well-known women such as Harriet Tubman, Daisy Bates, Shirley Chisholm, Dorothy I. Height, and Phillis... Continue Reading →
52 Ancestors In 52 Weeks 2023: Week 12 – Membership
NOTE: I accepted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge headed by fellow genealogy blogger Amy Johnson Crow in January 2023. The idea behind this challenge is that you will receive email prompts, a word or phrase, every week, and you find something about your research or family history to write about. I write in... Continue Reading →
Scanning Photos, Funeral Programs, and Much More at the Family Search Library
RootsTech has finally arrived. Since Phillip and I are Influencers this year, we had to arrive a day early for a media event. So I thought that would be the perfect time for us to utilize the Family Preservation Center at the Family Search Library. This is an area in the library where you can... Continue Reading →
Wordless Wednesday – Celebrating the Birthday Girl
My mother, Patricia Hatchett Mays, (smiling on the bottom right) celebrating her niece, Jackie's, birthday with family and friends in Newport, Arkansas
Wordless Wednesday – Black History Within My Family
My Uncle, Alexander Cooper, the first African American Post Master in Newport, Arkansas.
Journey Through the Generations 