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An index to records at the Family History Library containing the names of African Americans is: | An index to records at the Family History Library containing the names of African Americans is: | ||
*Taylor, Marie. Family History Library ''Bibliography of African American Sources: As of 1994''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family History Library, United States Reference, 2000. (Family History Library book | *Taylor, Marie. Family History Library ''Bibliography of African American Sources: As of 1994''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family History Library, United States Reference, 2000. (Family History Library book {{FHL|956235|title-id|disp=}}; [this link allows access to a digital image].) Includes information taken from church, court, slavery, and vital records, as well from the Kenneth Stamp collection of Southern plantation records. | ||
A list of slaves that were impressed to work on the railroads is in: | A list of slaves that were impressed to work on the railroads is in: | ||
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The signature registers for these branches are microfilmed: | The signature registers for these branches are microfilmed: | ||
*Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company (Washington, D.C.). ''Registers of Signatures of Depositors, 1871–1874''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0816. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1969. (Family History Library film | *Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company (Washington, D.C.). ''Registers of Signatures of Depositors, 1871–1874''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0816. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1969. (Family History Library film {{FHL|709470|title-id|disp=928590}}.) | ||
Other types of records were kept by The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, otherwise known as the Freedmen’s Bureau. An Internet site has resources for African-American research in Tennessee and other states: | Other types of records were kept by The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, otherwise known as the Freedmen’s Bureau. An Internet site has resources for African-American research in Tennessee and other states: | ||