International Black Genealogy Summit in Fort Wayne

Jennifer of the blog "But Now I'm Found: Genealogy Blog in Black and White" reports that the Allen County Public Library will host an international black genealogy summit October 29-31, said to be "the first time that all of the black historical and genealogical societies in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean will come together." Full info at the second link.

I see that in June the library will be hosting another major conference, the Palatines to America German Speaking Ancestry Conference.

Blogging in the act of finding ancestors

If I actually read all the good blogs that describe the proprietor's own research struggles, I'd never get any work of my own done! But ever since I read this post from Jennifer's "But Now I'm Found: Genealogy in Black and White" from Chicago/NW Indiana, I've kept her widget on my protopage home page collection for easy checking:

"I am so excited!" she wrote. "I received an email from someone who had the actual receipt naming my great-great-great grandfather."

Actually, the receipt doesn't just name her great-great-great grandfather Solomon; it's a receipt for him acknowledging his being sold.

Read the whole thing.