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Quick Guide to African American Records (view source)
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Start with the most recent generations. Look at general federal and state records and then look at records specifically for African Americans. | Start with the most recent generations. Look at general federal and state records and then look at records specifically for African Americans. | ||
For step-by-step instructions for finding African | For step-by-step instructions for finding African American families in recent U.S. records, see ''[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/images/36367_africanamer2_color.pdf Finding Records of Your Ancestors, Part A: African American, 1870 to Present]'' (requires Adobe Acrobat PDF reader). | ||
=== General U. S. Records === | === General U. S. Records === | ||
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Over the years African American sources have been cataloged in many different ways at the Family History Library. This Bibliography was created to make the African American genealogical sources easier to locate. For example: | Over the years African American sources have been cataloged in many different ways at the Family History Library. This Bibliography was created to make the African American genealogical sources easier to locate. For example: | ||
Burkett, Randall. Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790 –1950: Cumulative Index. 3 vols. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. (FHL book 973 F2bbd.) The 300 African | Burkett, Randall. Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790 –1950: Cumulative Index. 3 vols. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. (FHL book 973 F2bbd.) The 300 African American biographical dictionaries indexed in this work are available in the Family History Library, but they are not listed separately in the FHL Catalog by title. The bibliography corrects this problem by listing each title separately. You will also find numerous entries for articles from historical and genealogical periodicals you would not find by using the library catalog. | ||
For information about Melungeons, tri-racial families, African Americans with Native American ancestry, and free people of color see the Taylor bibliography, pages 54–56. | For information about Melungeons, tri-racial families, African Americans with Native American ancestry, and free people of color see the Taylor bibliography, pages 54–56. | ||