NOTE: I accepted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge headed by fellow genealogy blogger Amy Johnson Crow. 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. Click HERE to read my first... Continue Reading →
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025 – Week 6: Surprise
NOTE: I accepted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge headed by fellow genealogy blogger Amy Johnson Crow. 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. Click HERE to read my first 52 Ancestors blog post... Continue Reading →
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 5 – Challenge
NOTE: I accepted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge headed by fellow genealogy blogger Amy Johnson Crow. 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. Click HERE to read my first... Continue Reading →
RootsTech 2025 – Discover
The world's largest family history celebration is March 6-8, 2025, at the Salt Palace convention center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The theme of this year's RootsTech is 'Discover'. One word that means so much in the world of family history and genealogy. Discovering what we do as family historians; discover our family, discover our... Continue Reading →
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 3 – Nickname
NOTE: I accepted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge headed by fellow genealogy blogger Amy Johnson Crow. 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. Click HERE to read my first... Continue Reading →
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 2 – Favorite Photo
NOTE: I accepted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge headed by fellow genealogy blogger Amy Johnson Crow. 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. Click HERE to read my first... Continue Reading →
RootsTech 2025 Full Class Schedule Now Available
RootsTech is just a couple months away, and now is the time to start preparing for the world's largest genealogy conference. The full schedule is now available for you to view at rootstech.org. Both in person and online participants can use the schedule to create a tentative schedule for the conference that will be held... Continue Reading →
Wordless Wednesday – The Mays-Cummings Family
My family: Ericka Mays, Allen Mays, Wesley Cummings, me, Paedra Mays, Phillip Cummings, Eric Mays, Patrick Mays, and Russell Mays - Little Rock 2024
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 12
My Dad, Wayman Mays; and my brother, Russell Mays, fishing - Batesville Guard, Wednesday, June 11, 1980
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 11
My great grandfather, Wayman A. Denson, marriage license - St. Louis Star and Times, December 06, 1937
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 10
Philander Smith College 1960 graduates including my husband's grandmother, Mrs. Mattie Works Govan - Arkansas Gazette, July 30, 1960