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African American Genealogy[edit | edit source]

African American counties in dark purple.

Did you know?[edit | edit source]

The first Africans in the U.S. were sold as indentured servants in Jamestown, Va., in 1619 (before the Piligrims landed at Plymouth Rock) and freed after 7 years.
African American is the most common ancestry in: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The Freedman's Bank and the Freedmen's Bureau were separate organizations, from different federal departments, in separate National Archives record groups.
Ten percent of the African American population was free before the Civil War.
Only 15 percent of freed slaves used the family name of a former owner.
From 1865 to 1875 many African Americans changed their family name.

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 *[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/images/36928_AfricanAmerQG05.pdf African American Quick Guide pdf]
-*[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/images/36367_africanamer2_color.pdf 1870-Present Research]
+*[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/images/36367_africanamer2_color.pdf Finding African Americans 1870-Present]
 *[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1438024 1870 United States Census]
-*[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH33&CISOPTR=1765&REC=1 Bibliography of African-American Sources]
+*[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH33&CISOPTR=1765&REC=1 Family History Library Bibliography of African-American Sources]
 *[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1417695 Freedman Bank Records 1865-1874]
 *[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.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Civil War Soldiers and Sailors]
 *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=6482&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 World War I Draft Registration]
-*[http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/heritage/african-american/ NARA African American Research]
+*[http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/heritage/african-american/ National Archives African American Research]
 *[http://www.genealogy.com/00000360.html Genealogy.com African American]
 *[http://www.unc.edu/iaar/ Institute of African American Research]
-*[http://www.broward.org/library/aarlcc.htm African American Research Library]
+*[http://www.broward.org/library/aarlcc.htm African American Research Libr.]
 *[http://www.afrigeneas.com/ African Ancestored Genealogy]
 *[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyages]