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African American Genealogy
online research is much more difficult due to the scant nature of
record keeping for African American's prior to the Civil War. This
is the reason for creating a separate section for African Americans
much like we have for Native Americans who's research can also be
hampered by the available records.
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Online African American Books at
AccessGenealogy
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National Archives
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Archives
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Societies
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Biography
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Georgia African American Cemeteries
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African American Census Records
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Court Records
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Free Help at Ancestry
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The Challenge of African American Research
Conducting successful African American
genealogical research can be a challenging adventure. In
recent years, the challenge has been lessened and the
adventure heightened by the growing body of publications
relating to this ethnic group. Special-interest groups and
genealogical societies nationwide are publishing key guides,
new bibliographies, and important how-to books. Before
delving into published sources, however, it is always
important to pause long enough to organize one’s own
personal papers and review standard research methodology.
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African American Research, Part 1
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African American Research, Part 2
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African American Research, Part 3: Case Studies
Searching for African
American families involves two distinct research approaches.
These approaches correspond to the distinct change in the
legal status of African Americans in the United States
before and after the Civil War. Genealogical techniques used
to track slave families before the war are necessarily quite
different than those used for white or free African
Americans; however, research conducted on African Americans
after the war usually involves the same types of records as
those used for whites.
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African American Genealogy Program at Indiana Historical
Society
Internationally known
genealogist Tony Burroughs will present a lecture titled
"Black Roots: A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African
American Family Tree" at the Indiana Historical Society on
February 10, from 1–4 p.m. The program, cosponsored by the
IHS and the Indiana African American Genealogy Group, will
discuss conducting African American family history research.
IHS Program Archivist Wilma Gibbs will present a discussion
on research resources available at the IHS and other
repositories.
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Finding Your African American Ancestors: A BeginnerĘs Guide
Few areas of American
genealogy pose as much challenge as the search for African
American ancestry prior to the Civil War. Notwithstanding
the inherent difficulties, there are few areas that contain
as much unrealized potential. Despite great strides within
the last two decades, the basic outlines of the field are
only now being clarified. While the difficulties of African
American genealogical research are not to be discounted,
these difficulties are not always insurmountable.
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Celebrating African American Family History
February is Black History
Month in the United States. If you have Black American
ancestry, you might want to begin tracing your family tree
this month while many museums and archives have special
exhibits to mark the month.
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History
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Slave Narratives CD-ROM (Windows) $$
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Ancestry.com
Slave Narratives $$
Perhaps no
other resource approaches the range of human experience
found in Ancestry.com's Slave Narratives. This collection of
interviews stands in contrast to other slave narratives that
appear in most
literature anthologies which were written by the rare few
who, against staggering odds, had become literate. This
database provides a more poignant picture of what it was to
live as a slave in the American South. Taken from The
American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, this collection
is the most complete available picture of the
African-American slavery experience. There is simply no
other historical document quite like it. The collection
contains over 20,000 pages of type-scripted interviews with
more than 3,500 former slaves collected over a ten year
period. (Requires Ancestry.com
Membership)
Get 14 Days Free Access!!!
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Georgia Slave Narratives (hosted at
AccessGenealogy)
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Military Records
African American Online Projects
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