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==Introduction==
==Online Resources==
'''Record Collections'''
<li>'''1742-1975''' {{RecordSearch|1999178|Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1975}} at FamilySearch — [[Georgia Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]] </li>
<li>'''1790-1860''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1714 U.S., Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests, 1790-1860] at Ancestry ($)</li>
<li>'''1828-1878''' [https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4766 Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978] at Ancestry ($) </li>
<li>'''1846-1867''' [https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1231 U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867] at Ancestry ($)</li>
<li>'''1861-1872''' {{RecordSearch|1414908|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872}} at FamilySearch — [[United States Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]</li>
<li>'''1865-1872''' {{RecordSearch|2333770|Alabama, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872}} at FamilySearch - images — [[Alabama, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]] </li>
<li>'''1865-1874''' {{RecordSearch|1417695|Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874}} at FamilySearch [[United States, Freedman's Bank Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]</li>
<li>'''1867-1868''' {{RecordSearch|2739725|Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books, 1867-1868}} at FamilySearch — [[Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]] </li>
<li>'''1867-1869''' [https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1857 Georgia, Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, 1867-1869] at Ancestry ($)</li>
<li>'''1914-1927'''{{RecordSearch|1320969|Georgia Deaths 1914-1927}} at FamilySearch — [[Georgia Deaths - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]] </li>
<li>'''1928-1940''' {{RecordSearch|1385727|Georgia Deaths, 1928-1940}} at FamilySearch — [[Georgia Deaths - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]] </li>
<li>[[African American Digital Bookshelf]] - a growing list of digital books on FamilySearch and other websites</li>
<li>[http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/ Discover Freedmen] - this site searches all of the Freedmen's Bureau record collections on FamilySearch altogether (and redirects there)</li>
*[https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/lantern/ The Lantern Project (Legal Records Documenting Enslaved Persons)] at Mississippi State University Libraries — index & images ($)
<br>
'''Digital Archives'''
<li>[http://crdl.usg.edu/?Welcome Civil Rights Digital Library]</li>
<li>[http://vault.georgiaarchives.org/ Georgia's Virtual Vault] </li>
<li>[http://lowcountryafricana.net/ Lowcountry African] is dedicated to documenting the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida</li><br>
'''Lists of Sources'''
<li>[http://www.accessgenealogy.com/african/georgia/index.htm Access Genealogy: Georgia African American Genealogy] </li>
<li>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160410114051/http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/100539.pdf Papers of the American Slave Trade]: part 1, Port of Savannah Slave Manifests, 1790-1860</li>
 
==Research Strategy==
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2635332 Dee Parmer Woodtor, ''Finding a place called home : a guide to African-American genealogy and historical identity.'' New York : Random House, ©1999. FS Library973 F2wd]
*Stacy Ashmore Cole,'' Abram Houston: Bridging the Gap from the 1870 Census to Slavery. A Liberty County, Georgia, Case Study Illustrating the Benefits of a Community-Focused Approach to Slavery Documentation'' Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 57 #1 (Spring 2021): 2-14. FS Library 975.8 B2ga v57 no. 1 
 
==Historys==
<li>Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan, ''[http://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01cald History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition Volume 1]'' </li>
<li>Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan, ''[http://archive.org/details/historyofamerica02cald History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition, Volume 2]''</li>
<li>''The Black Side'': a partial history of the business, religious, and educational side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. / by Edward R. Carter. - Atlanta:[s.n.], 1894/ - ix, 323 p. Micro 28148 F LC copy replaced by microfilm. </li>
<li>''Homecoming: African-American Family History in Georgia'' / Carole Merritt. - [Atlant[[Category:African American Records]]: African-American Family History Association, c 1982. - 122 p. E185.93G4 M47 1982 </li>
<li>''Distinguished Negro Georgians''. - Dallas: Royal Pub. Co., [1961]. - 203 p. E185.93 G4 T7 </li>
<li>''Profiles of Black Georgia Baptists'': two hundred and six years of Black Georgia Baptist History, one hundred years of national Baptist history as told by Clarence M. Wagner. - Gainesville, GA.: Wagner, c 1980. - 268 p. BX6444.G4 W33  </li>
<li>Stewart, Roma Jones, ''{{FSC|682718|item|disp=Africans in Georgia, 1870}}'' (Chicago, Illinois:Homeland, c1993)</li>
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/459688 Julia Floyd Smith, ''Slavery and rice culture in low country Georgia, 1750-1860.''Knoxville, Tennessee : University Press, c1985 FS Library 975.87 H6sm]
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/255252 Betty Wood, ''Slavery in colonial Georgia, 1730-1775''Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, c1984 FS Library 975.8 H6w]
 
==Resources==
===Biographies===
===Cemeteries===
<li>'''1852-1942''' {{RecordSearch|3479704|Georgia, Chatham, Savannah, Laurel Grove Cemetery Record Keeper's Book (colored), 1852-1942}} at FamilySearch; index — [[Georgia, Chatham, Savannah, Laurel Grove Cemetery Record Keeper's Book (colored) - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]] </li>
<li>'''1866-2000''' {{RecordSearch|3491475|Georgia, Columbus, Linwood and Porterdale Colored Cemeteries, Interment Records, 1866-2000}} at FamilySearch; index and images — [[Georgia, Columbus, Linwood and Porterdale Colored Cemeteries, Interment Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]] </li>
 
===Census Records===
===Church Records===
===Emancipation Records===
===Funeral Homes===
*[https://app.air.inc/a/borzvL1af/b/8dc76b25-27b0-42b5-a889-6c7027db068f CAAGS Obituary and Funeral Home Collection] at California African American Genealogical Society - index & images
 
===Genealogies===
===Land and Property===


==== Pre-1870 Resources  ====
====Plantation====
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1403851 Jean L. Cooper, comp., ''A Genealogical index to the guides of the microfilm edition of records of Antebellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War''1st Books, c2003 FS Library 973 D22cj]
*[[African American Slavery and Bondage]] - Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War
=== Law and Legislation ===
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/723107 ''State slavery statutes'' Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1989 FS Library Fiche 6118906] (31 fiche) Georgia, ca 1789-1865


[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=498372&disp=Slave+bills+of+sale+project%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Slave bills of sale project]<br>
===Obituaries===
*[https://app.air.inc/a/borzvL1af/b/8dc76b25-27b0-42b5-a889-6c7027db068f CAAGS Obituary and Funeral Home Collection] at California African American Genealogical Society - index & images


Contents: Vol. 1. sect. 1. Atlanta, Augusta, Baldwin, Bartow, Bibb, Bryan -- v. 1. sect. 2. Burke -- v. 1. sect. 3. Campbell, Carroll, Cass, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Cobb, Columbia, Columbus, Covington, Coweta, Dekalb, Dooly, Early, Elbert, Emanuel, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Henry, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, LaGrange, Liberty, Lincoln, Lowndes, Lumkin -- v. 2. sect. 1. Macon, Madison, Marion, McIntosh, Meriwether, Milledgeville, Monroe, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Oglethorpe, Perry, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richmond, Savannah, Spartanburg, Stewart, Sumter, Telfair, Troup, Twiggs, Upson, Walton, Washington, Whitfield, Wilkes -- v. 2. sect. 2. Unidentified counties -- v. 2. sect. 3. Freedmen and contractors. and contractors.<br>
===Oral Histories===
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/61226 George P. Rawick, general editor ; Jan Hillegas, Ken Lawrence, editors, ''The American slave : A composite autobiography'' 30 volumes. Series 1-2 reprints of originals published in 1941. Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Pub. Co., 1971-1977 FS Library 973 F2aa]


[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=499126&disp= [Extractions+of+slaves%27+names+from+selec%20%20&amp;columns=*,0,0 Extractions of slaves' names from select Georgia and Alabama wills] compiled by Neal N. Cotner<br>
===Other Records===
<li>[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16611866 Juan Madrazo v. Slaves and Cargo of the Isabelita and John Clark, Governor of Georgia, v. Negroes NAID 16611866 - National Archives]</li>
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2259399 Dawn Watson. ''Slave importation affidavit registers for nine Georgia counties, 1818 - 1847.'' Clayton, Georgia : Bone Diggers Press, c2012. FS Library 975.8 H6wd]
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/498372 Joann Martin. ''Slave bills of sale project.'' 2 vols. Atlanta, Georgia : African-American Family History Association, 1986. FS Library 975.8 F2sL]


Extractions of slaves' names from wills of seven Traylor families of Troup, Jasper, and Upson counties, Georgia; and Lowndes and Dallas counties, Alabama. Wills dated from 1817 to 1860. 46 slaves listed.<br>
===Military Records===
===Newspapers===
*[https://informationwanted.org/ Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery]


[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=314960&disp=Register+of+free+persons+of+color%2C+182%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Register of free persons of color, 1826-1835 [Chatham County, Georgia]&nbsp;]&nbsp; Georgia. Inferior Court (Chatham County)  
===Probate Records===
<li>{{RecordSearch|1999178|Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1975}} - lists of slaves can often be found in probate records — [[Georgia Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]</li>
 
Garrett-Nelson, LaBrenda. ''Gleaning Information about Enslaved Ancestors from Probate Files'' NGS Magazine 48 #2 (April - June 2022): 23 –27. FS Library 973 D25ngs
 
===Reconstruction Records===
<li>{{RecordSearch|2739725|Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books, 1867-1868}} at FamilySearch — [[Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]] </li>
<li>[https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1857 Georgia, Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, 1867-1869] at Ancestry ($) - lists name, registration date, location, and race</li>
 
====Freedman's Bank====
An excellent source is the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company (visit the [[African American Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records]] page to learn more). This company was created to assist African American soldiers of the Civil War and freed slaves. Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company signature cards or registers from 3 March 1865 to 25 July 1874 may list the name of the depositor, date of entry, age, birthplace, residence, complexion, name of employer or occupation, wife or husband’s name, death information, children’s names, name of father and mother, brothers’ and sisters’ names, remarks, and signature. Early books sometimes contained the name of the former master or mistress and the name of the plantation. Copies of death certificates were sometimes attached to the entries. The collection is organized alphabetically by state, then city where the bank was located, then date the account was established, then account number.<br>
 
Online collections of Freedman's Bank records:
*{{RecordSearch|1417695|United States, Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874}} at FamilySearch — [[United States, Freedman's Bank Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
*[https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8755 U.S., Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1871] at Ancestry ($)
 
====Freedmen's Bureau====
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created by the US government in 1865 until 1872 to assist former slaves in the southern United States. The Bureau created a wide variety of records extremely valuable to genealogists.  Such documents include censuses, marriage records, and medical records.  These records often include full names, former masters and plantations, and current residences.<ref>"African American Records: Freedmen's Bureau," "African American Heritage," ''National Archives'', accessed 11 May 2018. </ref> For 1865 and 1866, the section on abandoned and confiscated lands includes the names of the owners of the plantations or homes that were abandoned, confiscated, or leased. It gives the county and location, a description of the house, the number of acres owned, and the number of cabins of former slaves. These films do not appear to contain the names of former slaves.
 
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4113970 Cimbala, Paul A. ''Under the guardianship of the nation : the Freedmen's Bureau and the reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870.''Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, ©1997.FS Library 975.8 H6c]
 
To find Freedmen's Bureau records:
 
*[http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/ DiscoverFreedmen] - the search on this site will utilize all of the Freedmen's Bureau records on FamilySearch, including:
**{{RecordSearch|2432941|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau Claim Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|2432992|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau Hospital and Medical Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|2475025|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|1414908|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872}} — [[United States Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|2431759|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau Ration Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|2515868|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|2515865|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Freedmen's Court Records, 1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|2515867|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|2492627|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints, 1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
**{{RecordSearch|2427894|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872}} — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
Other FamilySearch collections not included:
*{{RecordSearch|2331267|Georgia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872}} Images — [[Georgia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
*{{RecordSearch|2575789|United States Freedmen's Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872}} — [[United States Freedmen's Bureau Miscellaneous Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
*{{RecordSearch|2721171|United States Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872}} — [[United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
*{{RecordSearch|2427901|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872}} Images. These reports primarily contain statistical and historical information — [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
 
===School Records===
===Slavery Records===
{| width="70%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
|-
| bgcolor="#cc99ff" colspan="8" | <center>'''Number of Slaves in Georgia'''<ref name="no">''Ninth Census of the United States: Statistics of Population, Tables I to VIII Inclusive'' (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872), 21-22. Digital version at [http://archive.org/stream/ninthcensusunit00offigoog#page/n28/mode/1up Internet Archive]; {{FSC|281281|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 X2pcu}}.</ref></center>
|-
| '''1860'''
| '''1850'''
| '''1840'''
| '''1830'''
| '''1820'''
| '''1810'''
| '''1800'''
| '''1790'''
|-
| 462198
| 381682
| 280944
| 217531
| 149656
| 105218
| 59406
| 29264
|}


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[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1178028&disp=Records+of+the+Assistant+Commissioner+fo%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869] <br>
{| width="70%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
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| bgcolor="#cc99ff" colspan="8" | <center>'''Number of Free People of Color in Georgia'''<ref name="no" /></center>
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| '''1860'''
| '''1850'''
| '''1840'''
| '''1830'''
| '''1820'''
| '''1810'''
| '''1800'''
| '''1790'''
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| 3500
| 2931
| 2753
| 2486
| 1763
| 1801
| 1019
| 398
|}
 
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*Martin, Joann and African-American Family History Association (Atlanta, Georgia), ''Slave Bills of Sale Project'' (Atlanta, Georgia;: African-American Family History Association, 1986) {{WorldCat|16831815|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|498372|item|disp=FS Library fiche 6049830–31; book 975.8 F2sL}}
 
:Contents: Vol. 1. sect. 1. Atlanta, Augusta, Baldwin, Bartow, Bibb, Bryan -- v. 1. sect. 2. Burke -- v. 1. sect. 3. Campbell, Carroll, Cass, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Cobb, Columbia, Columbus, Covington, Coweta, Dekalb, Dooly, Early, Elbert, Emanuel, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Henry, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, LaGrange, Liberty, Lincoln, Lowndes, Lumkin -- v. 2. sect. 1. Macon, Madison, Marion, McIntosh, Meriwether, Milledgeville, Monroe, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Oglethorpe, Perry, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richmond, Savannah, Spartanburg, Stewart, Sumter, Telfair, Troup, Twiggs, Upson, Walton, Washington, Whitfield, Wilkes -- v. 2. sect. 2. Unidentified counties -- v. 2. sect. 3. Freedmen and contractors. and contractors.<br>
 
*Cotner, Neal N. ''Extractions of Slaves' Names from Select Georgia and Alabama Wills'' (SLC, Utah, 1992) {{FSC|499126|item|disp=FS Library film 1697603 item 14}} Extractions of slaves' names from wills of seven Traylor families of Troup, Jasper, and Upson counties, Georgia; and Lowndes and Dallas counties, Alabama. Wills dated from 1817 to 1860. 46 slaves listed.


"On the 36 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced the records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-69. A few papers are dated as early as 1862. The records consist of 34 volumes of communications sent, registers, and orders issued; and of unbound letters and reports received and miscellaneous papers. The documents were created or received by the Assistant Commissioner ...The records are part of Record Group 105, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. ...The editorial material for this publication was prepared by Elaine Everly." -- P. 1, 8.<br>
*United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, ''Records of the assistant commissioner for the state of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869:NARA, RG105, M798'' (Washington D.C.:NARA, 1968) {{FSC|362862|item|disp=FS Library films 1498626 (first of 36)}} (digital images available on the FamilySearch Catalog)


The library has bound numbers 791-800 together. Some numbers are missing.<br>
:"On the 36 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced the records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-69. A few papers are dated as early as 1862. The records consist of 34 volumes of communications sent, registers, and orders issued; and of unbound letters and reports received and miscellaneous papers. The documents were created or received by the Assistant Commissioner ...The records are part of Record Group 105, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. ...The editorial material for this publication was prepared by Elaine Everly." -- P. 1, 8.<br>The library has bound numbers 791-800 together. Some numbers are missing.


==== 1870-1900 Resources<br> ====
*Mohr, Clarence L. ''On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia''. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2259399 Dawn Watson. ''Slave importation affidavit registers for nine Georgia counties, 1818 - 1847.''Clayton, Georgia : Bone Diggers Press, c2012 FS Library 975.8 H6wd]


[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=682718&disp=Africans+in+Georgia%2C+1870%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Africans in Georgia, 1870] compiled by Roma Jones Stewart<br>
*For more resources available at the FamilySearch Library see {{FSC|498163|subject_id|disp=Georgia Slavery and Bondage}}


==== Books<br> ====
===Vital Records===
====Birth====
====Marriage====
*[https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4766 Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978] ($) - includes both "White" and "Colored" marriage books that listed names, marriage date, and marriage place


*<span id="1260349527131S" style="display: none">&nbsp;</span>[http://ia311020.us.archive.org/3/items/historyofamerica01cald/historyofamerica01cald.pdf ''History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition Volume 1'']  
The Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1872) was created by the US government to assist former slaves in the southern United States. One of their responsibilities was to record the marriages (past and present) of the former slaves. These records can be found in the collections below and include the lists of marriages that occurred previously, marriage certificates, and marriage licenses. The information contained on the records may include the name of the husband and wife/groom and bride, age, occupation, residence, year or date of marriage, by whom, number of children, and remarks.
*[http://ia311043.us.archive.org/2/items/historyofamerica02cald/historyofamerica02cald.pdf History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition Volume 2]<br>
*{{RecordSearch|1414908|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872}} at FamilySearch — [[United States Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]  
*[https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1231 U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867] at Ancestry


*[http://ia311024.us.archive.org/0/items/historyofamerica02incald/historyofamerica02incald.pdf History of the American Negro, Georgia Part 2]
====Death====
*{{RecordSearch|1320969|Georgia Deaths 1914-1927}} - [[Georgia Deaths - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
*{{RecordSearch|1385727|Georgia Deaths, 1928-1940}} - [[Georgia Deaths - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
====Divorce====
===Voting Records===
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/682590 Georgia. Executive Department. Returns of Qualified Voters, 1867-1868. 22 rolls]
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/76983 Georgia. Executive Department. Reconstruction Registration Oaths Books, 1867-1868. 23 rolls]


==== Online Resources  ====
==Archives and Libraries==
'''Georgia Archives'''<br>
University System of Georgia<br>
5800 Jonesboro Road<br>
Morrow, GA 30260<br>
Phone: (678) 364-3710<br>
Website: [https://www.georgiaarchives.org/ Georgia Archives]<br>
The website contains a [https://www.georgiaarchives.org/research/african_american_resources guide] to the African American resources at the archives.


*Access Genealogy:&nbsp; [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/african/georgia/index.htm Georgia African American Genealogy]
==Societies==
*[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1320969;p=collectionDetails Georgia Deaths 1914-1927] (Record Search)
==References==
*[http://www.examiner.com/x-8873-African-American-Genealogy-Examiner~y2009m11d9-State-online-resources-for-AfricanAmerican-genealogy-Georgia State online resources for African-American genealogy: Georgia]&nbsp; (African American Genealogy Examiner)


*[http://content.sos.state.ga.us/index.php Georgia's Virtual Vault]
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*[http://lowcountryafricana.net/ Lowcountry Africana] (Twitter: [http://twitter.com/LCAfricana LCAfricana]) is dedicated to documenting the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida.


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  • 1742-1975 Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1975 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection
  • 1790-1860 U.S., Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests, 1790-1860 at Ancestry ($)
  • 1828-1878 Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978 at Ancestry ($)
  • 1846-1867 U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867 at Ancestry ($)
  • 1861-1872 United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection
  • 1865-1872 Alabama, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - images — How to Use this Collection
  • 1865-1874 Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874 at FamilySearch How to Use this Collection
  • 1867-1868 Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books, 1867-1868 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection
  • 1867-1869 Georgia, Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, 1867-1869 at Ancestry ($)
  • 1914-1927Georgia Deaths 1914-1927 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection
  • 1928-1940 Georgia Deaths, 1928-1940 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection
  • African American Digital Bookshelf - a growing list of digital books on FamilySearch and other websites
  • Discover Freedmen - this site searches all of the Freedmen's Bureau record collections on FamilySearch altogether (and redirects there)


    • Digital Archives

  • Civil Rights Digital Library
  • Georgia's Virtual Vault
  • Lowcountry African is dedicated to documenting the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida


    • Lists of Sources

  • Access Genealogy: Georgia African American Genealogy
  • Papers of the American Slave Trade: part 1, Port of Savannah Slave Manifests, 1790-1860

    • Research Strategy

    Historys

  • Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan, History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition Volume 1
  • Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan, History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition, Volume 2
  • The Black Side: a partial history of the business, religious, and educational side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. / by Edward R. Carter. - Atlanta:[s.n.], 1894/ - ix, 323 p. Micro 28148 F LC copy replaced by microfilm.
  • Homecoming: African-American Family History in Georgia / Carole Merritt. - [Atlant: African-American Family History Association, c 1982. - 122 p. E185.93G4 M47 1982
  • Distinguished Negro Georgians. - Dallas: Royal Pub. Co., [1961]. - 203 p. E185.93 G4 T7
  • Profiles of Black Georgia Baptists: two hundred and six years of Black Georgia Baptist History, one hundred years of national Baptist history as told by Clarence M. Wagner. - Gainesville, GA.: Wagner, c 1980. - 268 p. BX6444.G4 W33
  • Stewart, Roma Jones, Africans in Georgia, 1870 (Chicago, Illinois:Homeland, c1993)

    • Resources

    Biographies

    Cemeteries

  • 1852-1942 Georgia, Chatham, Savannah, Laurel Grove Cemetery Record Keeper's Book (colored), 1852-1942 at FamilySearch; index — How to Use this Collection
  • 1866-2000 Georgia, Columbus, Linwood and Porterdale Colored Cemeteries, Interment Records, 1866-2000 at FamilySearch; index and images — How to Use this Collection

    • Census Records

    Church Records

    Emancipation Records

    Funeral Homes

    Genealogies

    Land and Property

    Plantation

    Law and Legislation

    Obituaries

    Oral Histories

    Other Records

  • Juan Madrazo v. Slaves and Cargo of the Isabelita and John Clark, Governor of Georgia, v. Negroes NAID 16611866 - National Archives

    • Military Records

    Newspapers

    Probate Records

  • Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1975 - lists of slaves can often be found in probate records — How to Use this Collection

    • Garrett-Nelson, LaBrenda. Gleaning Information about Enslaved Ancestors from Probate Files NGS Magazine 48 #2 (April - June 2022): 23 –27. FS Library 973 D25ngs

    Reconstruction Records

  • Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books, 1867-1868 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection
  • Georgia, Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, 1867-1869 at Ancestry ($) - lists name, registration date, location, and race

    • Freedman's Bank

    An excellent source is the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company (visit the African American Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records page to learn more). This company was created to assist African American soldiers of the Civil War and freed slaves. Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company signature cards or registers from 3 March 1865 to 25 July 1874 may list the name of the depositor, date of entry, age, birthplace, residence, complexion, name of employer or occupation, wife or husband’s name, death information, children’s names, name of father and mother, brothers’ and sisters’ names, remarks, and signature. Early books sometimes contained the name of the former master or mistress and the name of the plantation. Copies of death certificates were sometimes attached to the entries. The collection is organized alphabetically by state, then city where the bank was located, then date the account was established, then account number.

    Online collections of Freedman's Bank records:

    Freedmen's Bureau

    The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created by the US government in 1865 until 1872 to assist former slaves in the southern United States. The Bureau created a wide variety of records extremely valuable to genealogists. Such documents include censuses, marriage records, and medical records. These records often include full names, former masters and plantations, and current residences.[1] For 1865 and 1866, the section on abandoned and confiscated lands includes the names of the owners of the plantations or homes that were abandoned, confiscated, or leased. It gives the county and location, a description of the house, the number of acres owned, and the number of cabins of former slaves. These films do not appear to contain the names of former slaves.

    To find Freedmen's Bureau records:

    Other FamilySearch collections not included:

    School Records

    Slavery Records

    Number of Slaves in Georgia[2]
    1860 1850 1840 1830 1820 1810 1800 1790
    462198 381682 280944 217531 149656 105218 59406 29264


    Number of Free People of Color in Georgia[2]
    1860 1850 1840 1830 1820 1810 1800 1790
    3500 2931 2753 2486 1763 1801 1019 398


    Contents: Vol. 1. sect. 1. Atlanta, Augusta, Baldwin, Bartow, Bibb, Bryan -- v. 1. sect. 2. Burke -- v. 1. sect. 3. Campbell, Carroll, Cass, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Cobb, Columbia, Columbus, Covington, Coweta, Dekalb, Dooly, Early, Elbert, Emanuel, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Henry, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, LaGrange, Liberty, Lincoln, Lowndes, Lumkin -- v. 2. sect. 1. Macon, Madison, Marion, McIntosh, Meriwether, Milledgeville, Monroe, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Oglethorpe, Perry, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richmond, Savannah, Spartanburg, Stewart, Sumter, Telfair, Troup, Twiggs, Upson, Walton, Washington, Whitfield, Wilkes -- v. 2. sect. 2. Unidentified counties -- v. 2. sect. 3. Freedmen and contractors. and contractors.
    • Cotner, Neal N. Extractions of Slaves' Names from Select Georgia and Alabama Wills (SLC, Utah, 1992) FS Library film 1697603 item 14 Extractions of slaves' names from wills of seven Traylor families of Troup, Jasper, and Upson counties, Georgia; and Lowndes and Dallas counties, Alabama. Wills dated from 1817 to 1860. 46 slaves listed.
    • United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Records of the assistant commissioner for the state of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869:NARA, RG105, M798 (Washington D.C.:NARA, 1968) FS Library films 1498626 (first of 36) (digital images available on the FamilySearch Catalog)
    "On the 36 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced the records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-69. A few papers are dated as early as 1862. The records consist of 34 volumes of communications sent, registers, and orders issued; and of unbound letters and reports received and miscellaneous papers. The documents were created or received by the Assistant Commissioner ...The records are part of Record Group 105, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. ...The editorial material for this publication was prepared by Elaine Everly." -- P. 1, 8.
    The library has bound numbers 791-800 together. Some numbers are missing.

    Vital Records

    Birth

    Marriage

    The Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1872) was created by the US government to assist former slaves in the southern United States. One of their responsibilities was to record the marriages (past and present) of the former slaves. These records can be found in the collections below and include the lists of marriages that occurred previously, marriage certificates, and marriage licenses. The information contained on the records may include the name of the husband and wife/groom and bride, age, occupation, residence, year or date of marriage, by whom, number of children, and remarks.

    Death

    Divorce

    Voting Records

    Archives and Libraries

    Georgia Archives
    University System of Georgia
    5800 Jonesboro Road
    Morrow, GA 30260
    Phone: (678) 364-3710
    Website: Georgia Archives
    The website contains a guide to the African American resources at the archives.

    Societies

    References

    1. ↑ "African American Records: Freedmen's Bureau," "African American Heritage," National Archives, accessed 11 May 2018.
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ninth Census of the United States: Statistics of Population, Tables I to VIII Inclusive (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872), 21-22. Digital version at Internet Archive; FS Library Book 973 X2pcu.
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