Afro-American

African-American Census, Death & Marriage Records

• Access Genealogy: Black Genealogy Records
• AfriGeneas: African-American Census Schedules Online 
• Free African Americans
• Lowcountry Africana
• United States Census Bureau
• Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records
• Death Pentalty USA – Database of United States Executions
• 1870 Federal Census Black and Mulatto Households – Perry County, Alabama
• Register of Slaves Brought into Alabama – After January 16, 1832 in Perry County
• Census Links

Freedmen’s Bureau Records Collections

• National Archives Freedmen’s Bureau Records
• The Freedmen’s Bureau Online
• Freedmen & Southern Society Project
• Early Black Marriages of Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Freedmen’s Bureau Records at the Africana Archives
• Freedmen’s Bureau Reports – Hernando County, Florida
• Arkansas Freedmen of the Frontier
• The Valley of the Shadow Freedmen’s Bureau Records
• Mapping the Freedmen’s Bureau – An interactive map that assists researchers in determining if there was a Bureau office near their ancestral home.

African-American Military Service Records

• U.S. National Park Service Soldiers & Sailors Database: The Civil War
• FamilySearch – African-American Military Records
• African-American Military History
• African-American Women and the Military
• African-American Military Records – The USGenWeb Project

Immigration & Slave Trade Voyage Information

• The African-American Migration Experience
• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
• Voyage to Discovery – Untold Stories of African-Americans and the Sea

African-American Surname Search & Slave Names

• African-American Surname Matches
• Unknown No Longer – Database of Virginia Slave Names
• AfriGeneas Surname Search
• Caribbean Surname Index

African-American Newspapers, Magazines & Online Collections

• American Memory Collection – From the Library of Congress
• Online Historical Newspapers – The Ancestor Hunt
• BlackRefer: African-American Newspaper Listings

Library Resources, Centers & Archives for African-American Genealogy Research

• National Archives African-American Heritage Resources
• Researching Southern Claims Commission Records – St. Louis County Library 
• Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center: African-American Gateway
• Documenting the American South
• The USF Africana Heritage Project
• The Amistad Research Center
• Connecticut State Library: African-American Genealogy Resources
• University of North Carolina Greensboro Digital Library on American Slavery
• Enoch-Pratt Free Library: African-American Genealogy
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Brooklyn Public Library – Black Genealogy Research

African-American Cemeteries, Monuments & Tombstones

• African-American Cemeteries Online – Cemeteries and black churches
• Resting Places of United States Colored Troops
• Find A Grave: African-American Historic Cemetery
• The African-American Historic Cemeteries of Portsmouth, Virginia

Genealogical Societies, Groups & Organizations

• The Center for African-American Genealogy Research
• African-American Genealogical Society of Northern California
• The African-American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley (Ohio)
• Black Belt African American Genealogical & Historical Society
• African American Genealogy Interest Group – Facebook group
• Oberlin African-American Genealogy & History Group
• African American Genealogical Society of Cleveland, Ohio
• African-American Genealogy Group of Philadelphia
• International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry

Top African-American Genealogy Blogs & Additional Resources

• African Ancestry: DNA Testing Kits – Trace your DNA. Find your roots.
• Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South – 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, 1890s – 1950s.
• Our Georgia Roots – Honoring our ancestors of Wilkes and Warren Counties
• Our Alabama Roots – Honoring our ancestors of Barbour, Henry and Houston Counties
• Taneya’s Genealogy Blog
• Roots Revealed
• Who is Nicka Smith?
• Terrence Garnett’s Family Research
• Finding Eliza
• Notes to Myself
• Between the Gate Posts
• Our Black Ancestry
• Black Loyalist
• Finding African Americans on the 1870 Census
• Christine’s Genealogy Website
• African Roots Podcast
• Reclaiming Kin
• The Black Past: Remembered & Reclaimed
• The African-Native American Genealogy Page
• The African-American Migration Experience
• Slaves and the Courts, 1740 – 1860
• American Slave Narratives
• African-American Coal Miner Information Page