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Another helpful source of information for locating African American ancestors is the Records of the Commissioners of Claims 1871—1880: {{FSC|107378|item|disp=FS Library Film nos. 1,463,963-1,463,974}} Nearly 22,300 cases are filed by individual names, family groups, churches, and businesses. Records include testimony of neighbors, relatives, and former slaves to support a claimant’s assertions, taken during the Civil War because of loyalty to the Union. A master index to these case files is found in ''The Southern Claims Commission Loyalists in the Civil War,'' by Gary B. Mills, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994. {{FSC|107378|item|disp=FS Catalog Book 975 M2s}}; {{WorldCat|30591123|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. | Another helpful source of information for locating African American ancestors is the Records of the Commissioners of Claims 1871—1880: {{FSC|107378|item|disp=FS Library Film nos. 1,463,963-1,463,974}} Nearly 22,300 cases are filed by individual names, family groups, churches, and businesses. Records include testimony of neighbors, relatives, and former slaves to support a claimant’s assertions, taken during the Civil War because of loyalty to the Union. A master index to these case files is found in ''The Southern Claims Commission Loyalists in the Civil War,'' by Gary B. Mills, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994. {{FSC|107378|item|disp=FS Catalog Book 975 M2s}}; {{WorldCat|30591123|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. | ||
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