BlogFest2014! African American Bloggers ~ Family History Revealed

  Today is the DAY!  AAGSAR BlogFest 2014  has ARRIVED!

 

 Our Ancestors are SPEAKING! It's been a long tedious 4 months. Through our "Principal" Luckie Daniels she created AAGSAR after a Grievous and Sorrowful time when she lost her Mother she went offline for a bit. 

"I'm so Glad" she came back!  We are Celebrating and Finally through her have found Our Voice and made a HOME for Our ANCESTOR's to bear their TRUTH. 

I have been in many  Facebook Groups. Done many Internet Searches for my Genealogy and Family History.  I was sort of out in the Wild trying to find my place and didn't quite know what to do with my Work, only that I wanted other researchers to see it. I couldn't put two and two together. 

NEVER have I seen someone place the VALUE and MEANING on what our Work was suppose to do?  The Mentorship she has provided to us can't be matched. She has helped us grow into our Own. Even with myself she made me Think about what I Speak into the World and has helped me Grow in Confidence that I do know what I'm doing. 
She has also been our Cheerleader and Advocating for Years for our Voices to be at the Table.
 She has had more than her share of Heaping and Hauling, with us Grown Folks with our Hard Heads and Stubbornness.   Teaching us how TECHNOLOGY and Blogging can be integrated to put our Research out there and take us to the next level.

AAGSAR found ME! We have done 1:1 training. Been taught the meaning of our Work is IMPORTANT, we Do have a VOICE! Other's want to hear and read our Stories.  There are so many African American Family Histories. We finally found a PLACE where we can Commune together and get our Ancestors ONLINE and Out into the Community. We know what it means to be the Keeper of Records. What a HONOR it is to be the GRIOT, chosen to tell our Ancestors stories.

                     BlogFest2014 and AAGSAR have gotten us to the TABLE.

 Coming to the Table

This is a 1st! I'm so HUMBLED to be a part of so many new African American Bloggers! We are not in the shadows anymore. I look forward to hearing more of their stories. For up and coming New Bloggers who are hesitant?  Take the Leap of Faith and begin sharing your stories in Blogging!  You can do IT!   No more should we accept "Hoarding" our Family Histories. Keeping them in our Minds and Binders. 

Let Them Speak! Let your Ancestors Stories be Told! 



I'm so PROUD and PLEASED with Principal Daniels on your Leap Of Faith. For so many of us we had doubts and fears. 

Now we know what the TRUE meaning of our Work on behalf of Our Ancestors truly means.

 Do not DESPISE your PAST. Keep writing all the way from  your PHd Dr. to Preacher to Prisoner. Fully embrace all your family stories, let their Lives show their MEANING in Blogging.

This is a LIST of new African American Family Historian Bloggers being presented for BLOGFEST 2014! you can also follow US on Twitter @AAGSARFaceBook .

LINK FOR NEW BLOGGERS! :  

• BELLE SHEWMAKER-BROWN | Jewells In Dem Kentucky Hills
• GILLIE & LENA PETERS | Tracing My Peters Ancestry
• LAURA THOMPSON GREEN | Radiant Roots, Boricua Branches
• WILLIAM G. SHINAULT & MATHILDA CHRISTIAN | Shinault Family Genealogy
• WILLIAM T. BANKS SR. | Ancient Echos from the Past
• ANNIE ELIZABETH HUNTER NELLOMS-BARROW | Our Alabama & Georgia Ancestors
• LAURA ANN WARE | RootStories and More
• LOUISE OWENS WILSON | Wilson DNA
• HERBERT JACKSON II, HERBERT JACKSON III & MAUD OLIN HOGAN | My Genealogy Quest
• MAUDIE STERLING EDWARDS | Tracing Amy: My Ancestral Journey
• WALTER JAMES PORTER & BETTY MAE PETERS | The Ancestors Have Spoken
• HATTIE LUCILLE RIDDICK-STITT | A Rich Legacy Revealed
• REV. BEDFORD & ALICE THOMAS LUCK | Tracing Gardner’s Footprints
• SANDRA TALIAFERRO | The Taliaferro Project
• MOSES G. MCKISSICK | Geechee Moe’s Ancestry
• EUNICE SARAH FRANKLIN | Gathering Family
• WELTON FRANK | Ancestors In The Present
• META LEONA POSTELL | Retrograde Bloodlines
• GARFIELD CROSS | Railroads & Cotton
• MARY TELFLY GREEN | Alabama Heritage: Green, Wilson & RelateD
• RACHEL STARR  | Yancy to Yancy
•  JERRIE STEWART |  The Stewarts of Williamsport
• SANDRA WILLIAMS BUSH  | Ancestor Callings: Georgia and Mississippi Roots
• VALERIE LEWIS  | Georgia on my Mind: Milledgeville Borgus & Lewis Family

Enjoy!  Spread the Word. If you have family connections in anyway,  CONTACT and COMMUNE with them. Keep everyone Encouraged, do a Random Act of Kindness and SHARE INFO. 

We have already LOST so Much. Let's try to work through the HURT, PAIN and SHAME and work together. It only makes the Genealogy Community STRONGER! We will only come out on the other side Truthfully by Honoring Our Ancestors Stories. All of it.....

They say to OPEN a WINDOW after a Loved ones Passing, so their Soul Can Fly. I'll open a Window tonight in Honor of OUR Ancestors...... Let their Spirits SOAR on this Day of our BlogFest2014!

Ancestor Guidance

My Ancestors are PLEASED and BEAMING!  Ivery, Lewis, Miles, Daniel, Sweigard, Evans, Johnson, Watson, Heckman's and Barrick. North and South, even as far far away in hamlets and countrysides all over the World. They are SMILING!

Today we will Celebrate! Congratulations to all AAGSAR Tribe Member Bloggers! {{{Clapping}}}

 Our Sankofa Journey for Blogging has BEGUN! 

Today we "Bask in Our Ancestor's Light", for tomorrow the REAL WORK begins.......