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'''Freedmen's Bureau Virginia Marriages ca. 1815-1866'''--Names of thousands of formerly enslaved persons are included in these records. A free index can be viewed at {{RecordSearch|1414908|FamilySearch Record Search}}. Records may include the name of the bride and groom, date of marriage registration, residence, previous marriages, names and ages of children. | '''Freedmen's Bureau Virginia Marriages ca. 1815-1866'''--Names of thousands of formerly enslaved persons are included in these records. A free index can be viewed at {{RecordSearch|1414908|FamilySearch Record Search}}. Records may include the name of the bride and groom, date of marriage registration, residence, previous marriages, names and ages of children. | ||
Virginia, {{RecordSearch|1596147|Freedmen's Bureau Letters or Correspondence, 1865-1872}}. (NARA microfilm publication M752) Field office reports, letters received and sent, contracts, certificates, registers, censuses, affidavits and other documents. | '''Freedmen's Bureau Records''' <br> | ||
*[http://freedmensbureau.com/ Freedmen's Bureau.com] - transcribed records | |||
*[https://mappingthefreedmensbureau.com/maps/map/ Interactive Map of Freedmen's Bureau Offices with Links to Online Records] at Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau - images; FamilySearch collections | |||
*Virginia, {{RecordSearch|1596147|Freedmen's Bureau Letters or Correspondence, 1865-1872}}. (NARA microfilm publication M752) Field office reports, letters received and sent, contracts, certificates, registers, censuses, affidavits and other documents. | |||
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Biographies of prominent Virginia African Americans have been published. For example, a list of blacks who held public office during Reconstruction is available in: {{FSC|206297|item|disp=''Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865-1895''}}, by Luther Porter Jackson. The Black History Committee of The Friends of the Thomas Balch Library prepared two volumes titled ''The Essence of a People: Portraits of African Americans Who Made a Difference in Loudoun County, Virginia'' (2001-2002). {{FSC|1851278|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.528 F2f}}. | Biographies of prominent Virginia African Americans have been published. For example, a list of blacks who held public office during Reconstruction is available in: {{FSC|206297|item|disp=''Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865-1895''}}, by Luther Porter Jackson. The Black History Committee of The Friends of the Thomas Balch Library prepared two volumes titled ''The Essence of a People: Portraits of African Americans Who Made a Difference in Loudoun County, Virginia'' (2001-2002). {{FSC|1851278|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.528 F2f}}. | ||
'''Library of Virginia's [https://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/aan/search-the-narrative Virginia Untold] Collection''' includes digitized records pertaining to African Americans including bills of sale, certificates of importation, cohabitation registers, colonization registers, commonwealth causes, correspondence, coroner's inquisitions, deeds of emancipation, election records, fiduciary records, Free Negro registrations and tax records, Freedmen's contracts, freedom suits, indentures of apprenticeship, judgements, legislative petitions, petitions for re-enslavement, petitions to remain in the commonwealth, public claims, requisitions for public use, and enslaved runaway records for Virginia counties and independent cities. | '''Library of Virginia's [https://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/aan/search-the-narrative Virginia Untold] Collection''' includes digitized records pertaining to African Americans including bills of sale, certificates of importation, cohabitation registers, colonization registers, commonwealth causes, correspondence, coroner's inquisitions, deeds of emancipation, election records, fiduciary records, Free Negro registrations and tax records, Freedmen's contracts, freedom suits, indentures of apprenticeship, judgements, legislative petitions, petitions for re-enslavement, petitions to remain in the commonwealth, public claims, requisitions for public use, and enslaved runaway records for Virginia counties and independent cities. | ||
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