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=== 1865 to the Present === | === 1865 to the Present === | ||
After the Civil War, African Americans appears in the same sources as white people, such as '''censuses''' (beginning in 1870), '''marriage registers''' (though there was often a separate register for "colored marriages"), '''deeds''', '''wills''', '''military records''', '''cemeteries''' (though they were usually segregated cemeteries), '''tax records,''' '''voter registrations,''' and '''newspapers '''(including ethnic African American newspapers). Unique records relating to specifically to black Virginians include '''cohabitation records''' and '''Freedmen's Bank''' records.<br> | After the Civil War, African Americans appears in the same sources as white people, such as '''censuses''' (beginning in 1870), '''marriage registers''' (though there was often a separate register for "colored marriages"), '''deeds''', '''wills''', '''military records''', '''cemeteries''' and '''church records''' (though they were usually segregated churches and cemeteries), '''tax records,''' '''voter registrations,''' and '''newspapers '''(including ethnic African American newspapers). Unique records relating to specifically to black Virginians include '''cohabitation records''' and '''Freedmen's Bank''' records.<br> | ||
'''Cohabitation Records''' are registers created when the former slaves legalized their marriages which was not allowed until 1866. This valuable genealogical data is being made available online through the Library of Virginia's [http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/collections_a_to_z Virginia Memory Collection], called Register of Colored Persons...cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866. More about this source is also found on the [[Cohabitation Records]] Wiki page, and the [[Virginia Cohabitation Records|Virginia Cohabitation Records]] Wiki page. | '''Cohabitation Records''' are registers created when the former slaves legalized their marriages which was not allowed until 1866. This valuable genealogical data is being made available online through the Library of Virginia's [http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/collections_a_to_z Virginia Memory Collection], called Register of Colored Persons...cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866. More about this source is also found on the [[Cohabitation Records]] Wiki page, and the [[Virginia Cohabitation Records|Virginia Cohabitation Records]] Wiki page. | ||