This Week’s Podcast

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This podcast begin with a request to hear from YOU!.  Ideas, new programs, events, confererences, that will assist those who research African American history are all welcome here.  All suggestions can be sent to AfricanRootsPodcast.com.Those wishing to join the Baltimore AAHGS chapter in April, on their annual research trip to Richmond Virginia can contact Reeniej@aol.com, for more information;  The NGS Conference will host an African American Genealogy Forum at the NC Museum of History. The event is May 12, from 9:30 to 4:45 and is is free to the public. Information can be found at:http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/free_events ; Additional information on the workshops at the NGS Conference can be found at: http://members.ngsgenealogy.org/Conferences/Program.cfm ;

Summer Institutes and conferences are approaching.  Samford Genealogy Institute will take place June 14-19.  The National Institute for Genealogical Research will take place July 12-17.  Samford data can be found at http://www.samford.edu/schools/ighr/ and the National Archives Institute can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~natgenin/

The first Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen Heritage Conference will bring scholars to southern Oklahoma.  The details of this first time event are located at: www.choctawchickasawfreedmen.com/confpage.htm

Genealogy bibliophiles will be interested in John Baker and his new work the Washingtons of Wessyngton. Read about his book and watch the video at: http://www.wessyngton.com/; Melvin Collier’s work “Mississipi to Africa” can be obtained friom his website at:
http://www.mississippitoafrica.com/

Set your October calendar for the International Black Genealogy Summit! More information about this historic event can be found at: http://www.blackgenealogysummit.com/

Are you researching Missouri? If so take a look at the online presentations made by Traci Wilson-Kleecamp in her 5 part series on African American Genealogy. I have listened to each of them, and they are great sources on how to put the pieces together in your own personal research. These presentations rest on the Missouri State Archives website at:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/about/presentations.asp

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Tell me what you think and let me know if there are events that should be mentioned in the future, and of those authors whose works should be discussed. You can reach me at: AfricanRootsPodcast@gmail.com

Posted by Angela Y. Walton-Raji

Author, lecturer and researcher. Author, "Black Indian Genealogy Research, An Expanded Edition". Editor, Voices of Indian Territory. Member AAHGS -Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. PAAC-Preservation of African American Cemeteries. Founding Member of AfriGeneas. Faculty member for Samford IGHR, MAAGI-Midwest African American Genealogy Institute.

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