Researching Wanda Mays
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1712 people with the Mays surname? In that year Mays was ranked number 2021 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Wanda means "Slender young tree" and is of German origin.
Records of Wanda Mays on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Wanda Mays and the Mays Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Mays Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Mays family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 1179 people with the Mays surname in the UK? Mays is now ranked number 2949 for popularity in the UK. |
Mays Family History Databases
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Mays Forums
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 48612 people with the Mays surname in the USA? Mays is ranked number 141 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Mays Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Wanda Mays. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Wanda Mays
Wanda Jean Mays
Wanda Jean Mays (August 19, 1959 – May 12, 1986) was an American woman who disappeared on Georgia Mountain near Guntersville, Alabama in 1986. She was reported missing by her aunt and uncle in the early morning hours of May 12, when they found the guest room in which she was staying empty, its window apparently broken from inside. Mays' bloodied nightgown was found behind the family's home on Guntersville Lake, as was an empty canoe, also covered with blood, floating in the lake.
The unusual details surrounding Mays' disappearance led her case to receive national attention, and it was profiled on the series Unsolved Mysteries twice beginning in 1987. With no leads, however, her disappearance became a cold case.
In 2008, twenty-two years after her disappearance, it was confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's laboratory in Quantico, Virginia that formerly unidentified skeletal remains discovered in 2003 were those of Mays. Her death was officially ruled accidental.
Source: Wanda Jean Mays, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Mays
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