Edith Renfrow Smith’s 110 years of living reflects gratitude and determination. Her humble character is revealed through her joyous voice and her positive example of living. Edith Smith at 107…
Antoinette BroussardAugust 20, 2024
-- By Lucy McCauley I learned only a few years ago, while watching a documentary, that my great-grandfather, William Berry McKoy, played a significant part in the violence of the…
Lucy McCauleyApril 16, 2023
-- By Dr. Lee Davenport While some people began baking bread and planting gardens during quarantine, I began to uncover the experiences that shaped my parents, grandparents, and other living…
Lee DavenportJanuary 9, 2023
-- By Lee Guion I stood looking at an old postcard of a rectangular two-story brick building with a chimney and peaked roof. Faded lettering identifies it as the first…
Lee GuionSeptember 10, 2022
Although Baynard Woods is an accomplished journalist, we first came across his name in a piece he wrote for the Washington Post called “My name is a Confederate monument, so…
BitterSweet EditorsAugust 23, 2022
Tulsa, specifically the black district of Greenwood, one of the most affluent African-American communities in the United States, was also known as “Black Wall Street.” Ottawa W. Gurley was a…
Hilda BoulwareJune 8, 2021
Charles Leopold Bocage, 1951 My father Charles Joseph Bocage Sr. died when I was almost five years old. We moved from New Orleans to Los Angeles within six months of…
Charlotte BocageMarch 4, 2021
John Tyler In December 2020, Eric Kolenich of the Richmond Times-Dispatch interviewed several descendants of President John Tyler. He was prompted to write about them and their ancestor when John…
Prinny AndersonFebruary 2, 2021
Maria S. Montgomery & Allison Thomas Maria Montgomery found me on Ancestry.com in 2016. Our family trees overlap because my ancestors enslaved hers. We are “linked descendants”—cousins regardless of whether…
Allison ThomasJanuary 19, 2021