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== What | == What is in This Collection? == | ||
This collection includes records from 1865-1872. | This collection includes records from 1865-1872. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
==What Can These Records Tell Me?== | |||
==What Can | |||
These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads. | These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads. | ||
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*Military Unit | *Military Unit | ||
== How Do I Search | == Collection Content == | ||
=== Coverage Table === | |||
*[[United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872 Coverage Table|Coverage Table]] | |||
=== Sample Images === | |||
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Image:United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indentures and Apprenticeship Records (14-1776) Bill of Lading DGS 4151180_526.jpg|Bill of Lading | |||
Image:United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indentures and Apprenticeship Records (14-1776) Court Case DGS 4151180_150.jpg|Court Case | |||
Image:United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indentures and Apprenticeship Records (14-1776) Labor Contract DGS 4151180_324.jpg|Labor Contract | |||
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== How Do I Search This Collection? == | |||
To begin your search it is helpful to know: | To begin your search it is helpful to know: | ||
*The name of your ancestor. | *The name of your ancestor. | ||
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*The name of the former slave owner. | *The name of the former slave owner. | ||
=== Search the Index === | |||
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=== How Do I Analyze the Results? === | |||
Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images. Keep track of your research in a [[Use_Appropriate_Forms#Prepare_a_Research_Log | research log]]. | |||
==What Do I Do Next?== | ==What Do I Do Next?== | ||
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==Citing This Collection== | ==Citing This Collection== | ||
Citations help you keep track of places you have searched and sources you have found. Identifying your sources helps others find the records you used. | |||
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{{Collection citation | text= "United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872." Database with Images. <i>FamilySearch</i>. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 2017. Citing Nation Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.}} | {{Collection citation | text= "United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872." Database with Images. <i>FamilySearch</i>. <nowiki>http://FamilySearch.org</nowiki> : accessed 2017. Citing Nation Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.}} | ||
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