The Family Reunion Institute Family Reunions - Celebrating Your Roots! Family Reunion Planning Guides Beasley, Donna. The Family Reunion Planner. John Wiley & Sons, 1997. Williams, Krystal. How to Plan Your African-American Family Reunion. Citadel Trade, 2000. Genealogy Websites Christine's Genealogy Website African American Historical and Genealogical Society African American Genealogical Society of Northern California Genealogy Books Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree. Fireside, 2001. Woodtor, Dee Parmer. Finding a Place Called Home : A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity. Random House, 1999.
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.
Carol Neal's tips for planning a Black Family Reunion.
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).
All the guidance readers will need for planning a perfect family reunion, from the simplest to the most elaborate (Amazon..com).
Genealogical resource featuring manumission records, slave sales, and Freedman's Bureau records. Links to historical and genealogical records. 
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.
California-based organization with a national as well as local focus. Features newsletter, activities, calendars and contacts.
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to write for records, how to make the best use of libraries and the Internet, and how to organize research, analyze historical documents, and write the family history (Amazon.com).
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).
