African American Online Genealogy Records

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Online Genealogy Records

African American Online Database This is a collection of links to African American Online databases. The indexing of records is often an on-going project. Some collection indexes give no indication if they are a partial index or complete. If the name you are researching does not appear in an index, re-check the index at a later time or search for the record in the available original images. Some indexes are handwritten and a part of the image collection. Online collections of African American records for family history or finding ancestry, including vital records, slavery or freedman's records, slave narratives, and genealogy. Remember that your African American ancestors are also represented in all the usual records made about the general populace: census, cemeteries, obituaries, military, and so on. This chart shows records that specialize in just African American records, but you should also search all the online records for the states in which they lived.

Vital Records Births United States, Slave Birth Records, 1780-1846, index. INCOMPLETE Marriages Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1815-1869 United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872 — index and images African-American Marriage Records, Alabama Talladega and Macon Counties- RootsWeb, Index and images Marriage Records, International African American Museum's Center for Family History Deaths African American Obituaries, Funeral Programs and Cemetery Records - AfriGeneas Obituaries and Funeral Programs, International African American Museum's Center for Family History Area Resources AmericanAncestors/AfricanAmerican New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) Bank Records Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874, index and images. Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1871, ($), index and images. Biography Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, index. Also available at Access Genealogy, index African American Biographical Database (1790-1950) North American Slave Narratives, index.` Biographies of Famous African Americans, index. Notable African American Women, index. First-Person Narratives of the American South Voices from the Days of Slavery Slave Biographies, index Virginia Untold: Slave Narratives Bureau of Refugee Country-Wide United States Freedmen's Bureau Records of Freedmen 1865-1872, index and images. United States Freedmen's Bureau Land and Property Records 1865-1872, index and images. United States Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index and images. U.S., Freedmen Bureau Records of Field Offices, 1863-1878, index and images ($) Freedman Bureau Field Offices 1863-1878 ($) Index and images United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints, 1865-1872 Index and images United States Freedmen's Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index. United States, Freedmen's Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872 index and images United States, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1864-1879 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Index and Images United States, Freedmen's Branch Records, 1872-1878 Images only. United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Commissioner,1865-1872 Images Only. United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872 Images only. District of Columbia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872 index and images Cemeteries African American Cemeteries Online Resting Places of United States Colored Troops, Officers and Sailors Census US Federal 1790-1940 United States Online Census, 1790-1940 Slave Schedules 1850 ($) Slave Schedules 1860 ($)

Collections Digital Library on American Slavery The Atlantic Slave Database Network: A New Resource for Scholars AfriGeneas Slave Data Collection, index. Anti-Slavery Collection, Boston Public Library. Avoice Virtual Library Project, Moorland Spingarn Research Center. Digital Collections at the International African American Museum's Center for Family History Maps Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau Monroe Work Today, maps of lynchings Visualizing Emancipation Visualizing the Red Summer (1919) Migration Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database The African-American Migration Experience African Origins Database, index Medical Records United States, Freedmen's Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872 — index and images Military Records Civil War United States Colored Troops in the Civil War Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops, 1863-1865 United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 {{RecordSearch|3518724|United States, Compiled Military Service Records Of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With The U.S. Colored Troops, 1861-1866], index. U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1863-1865 index/images, ($) U.S., Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers, 1864, index/images ($) U.S., Register of Colored Troop Deaths During the Civil War, 1861-1865, index/images. United States Colored Troops Pension Files, International African American Museum's Center for Family History Newspapers African American Newspapers U.S., African American Newspapers, 1829-1947 African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, index ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers Periodicals African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 International Index to Black Periodicals Slave Trade Country-Wide American Memory - Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860 Digital Library on American Slavery by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice Colonial: Inspection Roll of Negroes Book No. 2; Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention 1765-1821. Slavery Era Insuranace Registry (SEIR) U.S., Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests, 1790-1860, index/images $ U.S., Definitive List of Slaves and Property, 1827-1828, index, ($) U.S., Interviews with Former Slaves, 1936-1938, index/images ($) SlaveSearch Southern Claims Commission Slavery Era Insurance Registry U.S. Southern Claims Commission Master Index, 1871-1880, images ($) Surnames African American Surnames - AfriGeneas

State-Specific Records
Georgia Liberty County - They Had Names	Virginia Library of Virginia - Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative

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