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+==What Can These Records Tell Me?==
+The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads.
+The following important genealogical information is often found in Bureau records:
+*Name of the freedman
+*Name of the freedman’s former owner
+*Date of the record
+*Birthplace
+*Residence
+*Age
+*Bride
+*Groom
+*Marriage date
+*Marriage place
 == Collection Content ==
 === Sample Image ===
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 *Rockville, Roll 42, Register of Complaints
 *Wilmington, Delaware, Roll 42, Register of Claimants for Bounties, Register of Claims for Pensions, Register of Payments
-==What Can These Records Tell Me?==
-The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads.
-The following important genealogical information is often found in Bureau records:
-*Name of the freedman
-*Name of the freedman’s former owner
-*Date of the record
-*Birthplace
-*Residence
-*Age
-*Bride
-*Groom
-*Marriage date
-*Marriage place
 == How Do I Search This Collection? ==
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 View images in this collection by visiting the '''{{RecordSearch|1989156|Browse Page|access=browse}}''':
 #Select the '''Freedmen's Bureau Office or Subordinate Field Office Location'''
-#Select the '''NARA Roll Number - Contents''' to view the images.<br>
+#Select the '''NARA Roll Number - Contents''' to view the images.
+<br>
 {{Tip | More images are available in the FamilySearch Catalog at [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1989156 Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872]. Some catalog records link to multiple references. In this case, click on a reference to find a camera icon to see images.}}