Journey Through the Generations
Uncover Your Roots: Exploring Ancestry & Family History
Voting has always been important to my family. I remember going with my Granny, Gladys Denson Mays, when she worked the polls during elections in the 1980s. I would pack my lunch and some books and sit in the back while she worked. My father and mother would always go vote together. I remember registering... Continue Reading →
My first family history display in Springdale, Arkansas 2017
Gladys Denson Mays - Newport, Arkansas circa 1960
Paedra Mays, Ernestine Wright Hatchett, and Trisha Mays - Newport, Arkansas 1983
A few of my favorite photos of myself
My Granny, Gladys Denson Mays, bottom right - Photo courtesy of Central Arkansas Library System Digital Collection
The Hatchett side of my family has been having family reunions since 1973. This is the side of my family that I know the most about and have researched the furthest. It is because of these reunions that I have been able to trace our family history back to slavery in Arkansas, Alabama, and Virginia.... Continue Reading →
Paedra, Russell, and Trisha Mays in Chicago 1988
Photo courtesy of Hubert Finkley
Wright/Skipper Family Church
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