{"id":526,"date":"2009-11-08T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2009-11-08T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:44:09","slug":"international-black-genealogy-summit-in-ft-wayne-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/international-black-genealogy-summit-in-ft-wayne-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"International Black Genealogy Summit in Ft. Wayne, Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_525\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ibgs-meet-the-author.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-525\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-525\" title=\"Meet the Authors event, International Black Genealogy Summit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ibgs-meet-the-author-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Meet the Authors event, International Black Genealogy Summit\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ibgs-meet-the-author-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ibgs-meet-the-author.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meet the Authors event, International Black Genealogy Summit<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">I just returned from a very exciting event\u2014The first International Black Genealogy Summit held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on October 29-31, 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 Several hundred people participated.\u00a0 Throughout the conference I shared my research experience with genealogists.\u00a0 It was wonderful to speak with many people who had already read my book. The give and take of ideas illustrates that we are just at the beginning of a long and interesting journey to learn about our roots.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; color: #1f497d; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">At the Meet the Authors event everyone could talk to the authors of books related to African American genealogy. The authors posed together for this photo. (L-R) Tony Burroughs who wrote <em>Black Roots: A Beginners Guide To Tracing the African American Family Tree; <\/em>myself;<em> <\/em>Tim Pinnick, author of <em>Finding and Using African American Newspapers<\/em>;<em> <\/em>and (Seated) Frazine Taylor, with her book <em>Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from a very exciting event\u2014The first International Black Genealogy Summit held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on October 29-31, 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 Several hundred people participated.\u00a0 Throughout the conference I shared my research experience with genealogists.\u00a0 It was wonderful to speak with many people who had already read my book. The give and take of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,19,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[251,333,334,332,56,44,91,83,335,169,338,331,336,337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}