United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

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| RW_URL_01 = [http://mappingthefreedmensbureau.com/maps/ Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau]  

| RW_URL_02 = [http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/freedmens-bureau-records.html  NARA Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview]  

This collection is from multiple NARA microfilm publications. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions.

=== General Information About Freedmen's Bureau Records ===

*[https://transcription.si.edu/browse?filter=owner%3A16 Freedmen's Bureau - Browse Projects]

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*Locate your ancestor in the 1870 Census.  Most local Bureau activities ended (except from claims and education) in December 1868.

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*The Bureau created many different types of records. Review the record types in the Collection Content section in this article.  

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