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To use the above indexes, you need to know either the location (the enslaved person's hometown), the name of his plantation, or the slaveholder's name. This information is sometimes found in [[African American Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records|Freedman's Bank]] or [[African American Freedmen's Bureau Records|Freedmen's Bureau]] records. Only about 15 percent of formerly enslaved persons used the family name of their former slaveholder. | To use the above indexes, you need to know either the location (the enslaved person's hometown), the name of his plantation, or the slaveholder's name. This information is sometimes found in [[African American Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records|Freedman's Bank]] or [[African American Freedmen's Bureau Records|Freedmen's Bureau]] records. Only about 15 percent of formerly enslaved persons used the family name of their former slaveholder. | ||
For a competing index of the same ante-bellum plantation records see ''FamilySearch Library Bibliography of African American Sources As of 1994,'' by Marie Taylor, (Salt Lake City: U.S./Canada Reference, FamilySearch Library, 2000 {{FSC|956235|item|disp=FS catalog Book 973 F23tm; and Fiche 6002568}} | For a competing index of the same ante-bellum plantation records see ''FamilySearch Library Bibliography of African American Sources As of 1994,'' by Marie Taylor, (Salt Lake City: U.S./Canada Reference, FamilySearch Library, 2000 {{FSC|956235|item|disp=FS catalog Book 973 F23tm; and Fiche 6002568}}; '''''Online at''''' {{FSDL|581984}}. It is alphabetical under the county or state where the plantation was located, the name of the plantation, or the name of the plantation's owner. It also cites many other sources beyond the ante-bellum plantation records. | ||
'''For plantation records not found in the above set''', search state and local historical societies, libraries, archives, museums, and: | '''For plantation records not found in the above set''', search state and local historical societies, libraries, archives, museums, and: | ||
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*''National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC),'' {{WorldCat|1759448|item|disp= at various libraries (WorldCat)}}. Library of Congress, by J.W. Edwards (Publisher varies: 1959-1961; 1962, The Shoe String Press; 1981 and 1991. Available online at the [http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html Library of Congress]. | *''National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC),'' {{WorldCat|1759448|item|disp= at various libraries (WorldCat)}}. Library of Congress, by J.W. Edwards (Publisher varies: 1959-1961; 1962, The Shoe String Press; 1981 and 1991. Available online at the [http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html Library of Congress]. | ||
*''Index to personal names in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript collections 1959-1984,'' Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, 2 vols. (Alexandria: Chadwyck-Healey, 1988). {{FSC|518729|title-id|disp=FS catalog book 016.091 1959-1984 index}} | *''Index to personal names in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript collections 1959-1984,'' Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, 2 vols. (Alexandria: Chadwyck-Healey, 1988). {{FSC|518729|title-id|disp=FS catalog book 016.091 1959-1984 index}}; {{WorldCat|14692607|item|disp= At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. Look for the slaveholder's name in this index in order to find planation records in the catalog above. | ||
*[http://sankofagen.pbworks.com/ Sankofagen Wiki] is a growing collection of free genealogical and historical data about American plantations, farms, factories, or manors that used enslaved African labor including names of enslaved persons. Arranged by state, county, and plantation. | *[http://sankofagen.pbworks.com/ Sankofagen Wiki] is a growing collection of free genealogical and historical data about American plantations, farms, factories, or manors that used enslaved African labor including names of enslaved persons. Arranged by state, county, and plantation. | ||
*''The Large Slaveholders of the Deep South,'' (Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia), by Joseph Karl Menn. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Dissertation Services, 1964, {{FSC|635958|item|disp=FS Catalog book 973 H6m Vol. 1-3}} | *''The Large Slaveholders of the Deep South,'' (Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia), by Joseph Karl Menn. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Dissertation Services, 1964, {{FSC|635958|item|disp=FS Catalog book 973 H6m Vol. 1-3}}; {{WorldCat|866334228|item|disp= At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. | ||
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