My mother's, Patricia Hatchett Mays, birth announcement - Arkansas State Press February 29, 1952
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 7
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 6
My grandfather, Booker Mays traveling to St. Louis and enjoying baseball and family. Arkansas State Press, September 27, 1957
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 5
Me playing basketball in high school - Batesville Guard Monday, November 28, 1994
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 3
Obituary of Mollie Harper, my sister in law's, Ericka Newton Mays, great grandmother - Hot Springs, Sentinel Record - Wednesday, March 30 1955
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 2
My Aunt Bert featured as high scorer in Brown High School girls' basketball team - Arkansas State Press 1951
Wordless Wednesday – My Reason to Smile Today
The Mays Kids plus three - Arkansas 2020
Wordless Wednesday – A Mays Kids Conversation
Trisha, Russell, and Paedra Mays - Jacksonport, Arkansas 1992 Photo Courtesy of Paedra I. Mays
Wordless Wednesday – The Mays Family
My brother Russell Mays and his family: Allen, Patrick, Russell, Ericka, and Eric Mays - 2024 Arkansas. Photo courtesy of Russell Mays
RootsTech 2025 Registration is Now Open
I'm excited to announce that registration for RootsTech 2025 opens on September 25, 2024. This conference will be held both virtually and in person in Salt Lake City, Utah March 6 - March 8, 2025. RootsTech is the largest genealogy conference in the world with keynote speakers, sessions, and exhibitors that are for every stage... Continue Reading →
Wordless Wednesday – Matriarchs
Fern Works, Dorothy Wilson, and Mattie Govan in Little Rock, AR 1996 - photo courtesy of Phillip Cummings
My Ancestors Were Registered Voters in 1914
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 →
Wordless Wednesday – All Smiles with Our Grandmother
Paedra Mays, Ernestine Wright Hatchett, and Trisha Mays - Newport, Arkansas 1983
Journey Through the Generations 