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Family Reunion Planning Sites

• The Family Reunion Institute
  Serves as a resource to families having reunions. The overall mission of the Institute is to revive, maintain and strengthen the extended family. An outgrowth of the African American Family Reunion Conferences organized by Dr. Ione B. Vargas.

• Family Reunions - Celebrating Your Roots!
  Carol Neal's tips for planning a Black Family Reunion.

• Sears Black Family Reunion
  A centralized online resource center providing people of color with information and tools to plan and execute family reunions, research family history and explore their genealogy.

• Better Homes & Gardens Family Reunion Guide
  Food and entertainment ideas for a successful Family Reunion.

Family Reunion Planning Guides 

• Beasley, Donna. The Family Reunion Planner. John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
  Provides advice on organizing a family reunion, including finances, communications, record keeping, making arrangements, entertainment, considerations for the day of the event, and preserving family history, with special suggestions for African American families (Amazon.com).
   

• Williams, Krystal. How to Plan Your African-American Family Reunion. Citadel Trade, 2000.
  All the guidance readers will need for planning a perfect family reunion, from the simplest to the most elaborate (Amazon..com).

Genealogy Websites

• AfriGeneas ~ African Ancestored Genealogy
  Portal site for beginning and experienced genealogists and family historians. Features databases, mail lists, message boards and chats rooms.  

• Christine's Genealogy Website
  Genealogical resource featuring manumission records, slave sales, and Freedman's Bureau records. Links to historical and genealogical records. 

• African American Historical and Genealogical Society
  National society devoted to African American genealogy. Dedicated to the encouragement of scholarly studies in both academic, local, and family history of all ethnic groups with particular focus on African Americans. 

• African American Genealogical Society of Northern California
  California-based organization with a national as well as local focus. Features newsletter, activities, calendars and contacts.

Genealogy Books

• Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree. Fireside, 2001.
  Highlights some of the special problems, solutions, and sources unique to African Americans. Explains everything you need to get started, including: where to search close to home, where to write for records, how to make the best use of libraries and the Internet, and how to organize research, analyze historical documents, and write the family history (Amazon.com).

• Woodtor, Dee Parmer. Finding a Place Called Home : A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity. Random House, 1999.
  A detailed and easily accessible guide. Focuses on finding information from the Reconstruction era, locating military records from the Civil War, and analyzing the schedules of slave owners, old newspaper notices, and county registers to trace ancestors who lived as slaves (Amazon.com).

Cookbooks 

• National Council of Negro Women. The Black Family Reunion Cookbook : Recipes and Food Memories. Fireside, 1993.
  Inspired by The Black Family Reunion Celebrations held in seven cities across America every summer, contains more than 250 recipes from home kitchens across America seasoned with warm memories and "homemade love." (Amazon.com)

• Tillery, Carolyn Quick. The African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute. Birch Lane, 1997.
  Includes memories and literary passages that evince the spirit of Tuskegee and complement more than two hundred traditional recipes with pictorial accounts, personal vignettes, and poetry (Amazon.com).

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