In Black and White: Cross-Cultural Genealogy

As I began researching the church history of my husband's family church, I ordered a copy of The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Bicentennial Hymnal. The book I am currently working on is structured by thematic songs. For the segment on church history, I chose the Spiritual, "I Want Jesus to Walk With Me." In this age we are blessed with the ability to tap into technology and hear almost any song you might like to listen to by searching YouTube or Google Videos. In my search, I came across an artist whose rendition gives me a feeling of what life might have been like in days gone by. Here is Eric Bibb, the son of Leon Bibb, the Godson of Paul Robeson...

This past week I added four blogs to my follow list. They weren't all new blogs... just new to me. Byerly Family Connections  via GeneaBloggers There are no Byerlys in our family tree. While some of my husband's family originated in South Carolina, none came from Newberry County. No one in our family migrated to Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee nor Texas. Germany served only as a stop-over point in my maternal grandfather's family....So why am I following this blog? It was Teresa Barley's writing style that drew me in and made me want to read more.  Clue Wagon : via the Armchair Genealogist While this blog was promoted for its About Me page, it was the clean and colorful design that drew me in initially. But what really did it for me was Lynn Palermo's link to Kerry Scott's post: What to do with a 547 - page Probate File . I had just received a 157 page Civil War Pension File and began a serialized Amanuensis Monday post to transcribe the file and w...