Fort Wayne, Indiana will host the first-ever joint conference of African-American historical and genealogical groups. Beginning Oct. 29, more than 400 black genealogists will attend a three-day International Black Genealogy conference at the Allen County Public Library to learn more about searching for their family histories.
Participants include the Afro-American Historical and Genealogy Society chapters, special-interest groups of large societies, the Black West Coast Summit groups plus independent black genealogical and historical societies from the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.
You can read more in the Journal Gazette at http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20091003/LOCAL/310039923/1002.
