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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
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