African Americans intermarried with Indians as early as the mid 1700’s. Intermarriage between Indians, Africans and Europeans were quite common in the Eastern seaboard and southeastern states.

The International Black Genealogy Summit(IBGS)is meeting this week (October 29-31, 2009) at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I wanted to learn more about the IBGS and share some resources with you.

Genealogy @ Bellaonline is going to start having genealogy chats to give its members a place to discuss their research questions. Come discover more about this exciting new event.

A lot of people ask me how to get started in doing their genealogy. While there are many different ways, I can share with you some of the things I have done in genealogical research.

Bedlam South is written by Mark Grisham and David Donaldson. Since I love history and heard this had a Civil War background, I was excited about reading this novel. While the Civil War is the background for this novel, you are also engrossed in a suspenseful, exciting set of characters.

The Bedford County, Tennessee Bible Records, Volume #1 was written by Helen and Timothy Marsh. Helen and Timothy have done an excellent job transcribing the Bible Records of those families they visited. Some of the data included are births, marriages, deaths, relationships and notes.

I have learned it is so important to be open minded in your research.

If you´re looking into DNA testing to work on your genealogy lines, here are some basic terms for you to be familiar with.

Guest Author, Elyse Doerflinger, has written a wonderful blog on backing up your computer files. There are things that we can do to prevent this from being a complete loss of work. With permission, I would like to share with you Elyse’s article on “Backing Up Your Genelaogy Data.”

The Geneabloggers have come up with their 2010 theme thanks to Amy Coffin. For those who have time in their schedules to blog, this weekly suggestion gives them something to write about.I have enjoyed participating in last year’s blogging and Week 1 of this year. Here is Week 3's blog.