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| | style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0,51,102); font-family: verdana; text-align: center" valign="bottom" align="center" colspan="2" height="30" | '''Welcome to the African American Research page'''
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| | <br>'''''Its most unique genealogical features:'''''
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| *many family name changes after Civil War
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| *slavery research is usually challenging
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| *Freedman's Bank & Freedmen's Bureau
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| === African American Genealogy ===
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| === Did you know? ===
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| *The first African settlers in the U.S. were indentured servants in Jamestown, Va., in 1619 (before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock) and freed after 7 years.
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| *African American is the most common ancestry in: [http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana].
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| *The [[African American Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records|Freedman's Bank]] and the [[African American Freedmen's Bureau Records|Freedmen's Bureau]] were separate organizations, from different federal departments, in separate National Archives record groups.
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| *Ten percent of the African American population was free before the Civil War.
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| *Only 15 percent of freed slaves used the family name of a former owner.
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| *From 1865 to 1875 many African Americans changed their family name.
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| === Key Internet Links ===
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| *[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/images/36928_AfricanAmerQG05.pdf African American Quick Guide pdf]
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| *[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/images/36367_africanamer2_color.pdf Finding African Americans 1870-Present]
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| *[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1438024 1870 United States Census]
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| *[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH33&CISOPTR=1765&REC=1 Family History Library Bibliography of African-American Sources]
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| *[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails&c=fs%3A1417695 Freedman Bank Records 1865-1874]
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| *[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1414908 Freedmen’s Bureau Virginia Marriages 1815-1866]
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| *[http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1105 Freedmen's Bureau Field Offices 1865-1872]
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| *[http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/scc/steps.htm Southern Claims Commission]
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| *[http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm African-American Migration Experience]
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| *[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/ North American Slave Narratives]
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| *[http://forums.familysearch.org/en/group.php?groupid=45 African-American Resources at FamilySearch Forums]
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| *[http://www.lwfaaf.net/ Resting Places of United States Colored Troops, Officers and Sailors]
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| *[http://www.africanamericancemeteries.com/ African American Cemeteries Online]
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| *[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html American Memory - Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860]
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| *[http://www.aagsnc.org/ African American Genealogical Society of Northern California]
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| *[http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/ Digital Library on American Slavery]
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| *[http://www.menare.org/research.html The Menare Foundation]
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| *[http://www.footnote.com/page/111250600_restore_the_ancestors_indexing_project/ Restoring the Ancestors Indexing Project: SC Estate Inventories]
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| *[http://www.accessgenealogy.com/african/ Access Genealogy: African American Genealogy]
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| *[http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Civil War Soldiers and Sailors]
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| *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=6482&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 World War I Draft Registration]
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| *[http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/heritage/african-american/ National Archives African American Research]
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| *[http://www.genealogy.com/00000360.html Genealogy.com African American]
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| *[http://www.unc.edu/iaar/ Institute of African American Research]
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| *[http://www.broward.org/library/aarlcc.htm African American Research Library and Cultural Center]
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| *[http://www.afrigeneas.com/ African Ancestored Genealogy]
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| *[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyages]
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| *[http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]
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| *[http://www.genealogycenter.info/africanamerican/ African American Gateway]
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| *[http://www.africanaheritage.com/ The USF Africana Heritage Project]
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| *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/ Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870]
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| *[http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/ Free African Americans of VA, NC, SC, MD, DE]
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| *[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html American Slave Narratives]
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| *[http://www.nps.gov/history/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/lowCountryA.htm Africans in the Low Country]
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| *[http://www.afrigeneas.com/ AfriGeneas]
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| *[http://www.africanaheritage.com/index.asp Africana Heritage Project]
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| *[http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore/VideoRedirection.aspx?content_id=15340 Avoid Traps in African American Genealogy], Tony Burroughs
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| === Things you can do ===
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| In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need to be done. You can help by:<br>
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| *[[How to author an article in the Wiki|Create a new article]]<br>
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| *[[How to categorize an article|Categorize articles]]<br>
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| __NOTOC__</div></div>
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| [[Category:African_Americans]] [[Category:Ethnic,_Political,_or_Religious_Groups]]
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