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=== Other Sources Especially Useful for African American Research === | === Other Sources Especially Useful for African American Research === | ||
To learn more, search these topics in the Research Wiki at wiki.familysearch.org: | To learn more, search these topics in the Research Wiki at [[wiki.familysearch.org|wiki.familysearch.org]]: | ||
#Social Security Death Index for ancestors who died after 1962 | |||
#WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918 for men born 1873 to 1900 | |||
#Freedman's Savings And Trust 1864-1871 bank | |||
#U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in the civil war soldiers and sailors system 1861-1865 | |||
#Records Of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations pre-1861 | |||
#Slaves in wills (Probate Records), deeds (Land and Property), tax records (Taxation) | |||
#Registers of free blacks and registers of slaves in upper south and border states | |||
#Freedmen’s Bureau – marriages, labor records, food, health care, lynching records 1864-72 | |||
#Slave Narratives 3,500 typescript interviews of former slaves made in 1930s, well indexed | |||
#Southern Claims Commission (advanced source) 1871-73 based on civil war claims | |||
#Runaway slave advertisements – spotty coverage, hard to find a particular ancestor | |||
=== Tips and Principles === | === Tips and Principles === | ||