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 *The age of the person
 *The residence or former slave owner
+*Locate your ancestor in the 1870 Census.  Most local Bureau activities ended (except from claims and education) in December 1868.
+*Check the records of the local field office in the area(s) where you believe your ancestor lived between June 1865 and December 1868.
+*Determine, if possible, the name of the former owner. The 1860 Slave Schedule may be helpful. Also consider searching the 1860 and 1870 Agricultural Schedules.
+*The Bureau created many different types of records. Review the record types in the Collection Content section in this article.
+*While searching Bureau records remember to search other records of the local government, including marriage and court records and especially the 1867 or later voter registrations.
+*Consider ancestors who may have been employed as a civilian agent or served as local agent while still in the military.  Look for statewide rosters of bureau personnel in the records of Assistant Commissioners and the Field Office Personnel Coverage Table for this state.  Others may have worked with aid associations or taught school supported by aid associations in the north.
+* Freedmen would have determined what their name would be and may have changed it multiple times.
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