Beginning African American Research: Difference between revisions

1. Learn some of the other sources available for African American research from the Research Wiki: wiki.familysearch.org/en/African_American_Research 2. Principle: Search for ethnic groups like African Americans first in the same sources you would for anyone else. 3. African Americans can appear in either “white” or separate “colored” registers. 4. African American names change, especially from 1865 to 1875—how to find them anyway. 5. What to do when an ancestor is not in an index when they should be there A. Try a different spelling B. Try a different index of the same source (for censuses) C. Ignore the index and go through the source line-by-line looking for your ancestor.