About LBroox and her
"Mixt Nutz"!
My name is LAURA BROOKS, the daughter of BLAINE MAYNARD and MARILYN HEYDA.  I am married to DAVID and have a daughter, BRENNA, and dogs Pepper and Domino.  I am an RN and a real estate agent. My hobbies include genealogy, computers, church, reading, and sewing. 

My mother was born in Michigan.  My father was born in eastern Kentucky.  My heritage includes primarily German, English, French-Canadian, and Native American (by rumor) with traces of Irish, French, Swiss, and Dutch.  Who knows what else I may find?  We're definitely a bunch of "Mixt Nutz"!!!
My mother's father came to the USA at the age of 17 from Germany, sponsored by an uncle in Detroit.  Her mother was French-Canadian and Native American.  My father's father was mostly English with rumors of Native American.  His mother was German, Irish, Swiss, Dutch, and possibly Native American.  If you have done much Appalachian genealogy research, you may have already encountered the problem of Native American or Melungeon heritage.  Many people in this area are of mixed descent which cannot be verified because their ancestors carefully covered the tracks.  Mixed heritage was concealed through intermarriage, changing names, and moving west to remote areas (like Appalachia) to avoid stigma and prejudice.    If an ancestor's roots cannot be traced, they are suspect.  Many of these suspect ancestors were women.  I have a few of these women in my family tree:  JANE YOUNG, SALLY JACKSON, MARGARET JACKSON, NANCY COX.  If you have had more success than I have researching these ladies, please email me!
PHOTO GALLERY
Wayne Maynard Home on
Camp Branch, Inez, KY, 1978
Camp Branch in front of
Maynard property, 1978
Wayne Maynard, 1950's
Sarah Perry (Setser, Gaultry), 1950's
Maynard Family in front of home on Camp Branch, Inez, KY, early to mid 1950's, back row:  Brady, Belford, Joe, Morris "Glen", Brenda "Sue", front row:  Wayne Maynard, Laura Setser Maynard.
Mary Jane Stepp Maynard and grandson, Joe Maynard,
about 1924-25.
My grandparents, Wayne and Laura Setser Maynard
Blaine and Marilyn Maynard
                1950's
Blaine Maynard, Late 1940's, about age 17-18.
1960:  Frederick Heyda, Debra Maynard, Darrell Maynard, Marilyn Heyda Maynard, Viola Anna Martin (Farmer, Heyda, Baier, Skarupska), Laura Maynard (THAT'S ME!!!), and Blaine Maynard.
Frederick Heyda and daughter Marilyn, about 1940
Marilyn Heyda, about 1940
Wayne and Bessie Farmer, early 1950's.
The four youngest Martin children, L. to R.:  Anna, 4 yrs., Agnes, 7 yrs., Dorothy, 5.5 yrs., Howard.
Back row (left to right):  Anna Martin, Evelyn Harvey.
Middle:  ?Fred Harvey
Front row:  ?Richard Harvey, Howard Martin
                              1950's:  The Martin Girls,
Dorothy Baum, Elizabeth Jane "Bobbie" Smith, Anna Skarupska                  
Grave of Frederick Heyda, 1978
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