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Black History Month is celebration of the role African Americans played in shaping U.S. history. The annual event started as “Negro History Week” in 1926, and blossomed into a month-long commemoration marked by every U.S. president in office since 1976.

Festivities kick off Feb. 1, and we’d like to help you celebrate your heritage. Discover
your black history with some of our genealogy resources:

• Top
  digital destinations for researching black roots
• Heritage
  guide to tracing slave roots
• African
  American genealogy toolkit
• Eight tips
  for finding ancestors in the 1850 and 1860 slave enumerations
• Slave bills of sale
• 101
  Best Websites 2010: African-American roots
• Rescued
  slave ships database

Look for a guide to tracing black ancestors using African American newspapers in our
May issue, on newsstands March 8.