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African American Resources for Alabama (view source)
Revision as of 07:34, 26 March 2017
, 26 March 2017→Freedmen’s Bureau: Includes a link to a more recent article explaining how to use the records. Many of these records have now been indexed and the other article explains how to use them
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===== [https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/African_American_Freedmen%27s_Bureau_Records Freedmen’s Bureau] ===== | ===== [https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/African_American_Freedmen%27s_Bureau_Records Freedmen’s Bureau] ===== | ||
United States:''Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Alabama, 1865–1869.'' National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0809. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1969. (Family History Library [https://www.familysearch.org/s/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.familysearch.org%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F362692&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D films 1612338–60].) These | United States:''Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Alabama, 1865–1869.'' National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0809. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1969. (Family History Library [https://www.familysearch.org/s/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.familysearch.org%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F362692&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D films 1612338–60].)There is an ongoing effort to index these records. For more information please follow the link to the article about the Bureau. These records do contain the names of slaves and the names of white southerners who were displaced by the war. They are very valuable to African American researchers. | ||
For 1865 and 1866, the section on abandoned and confiscated lands (Family History Library [https://www.familysearch.org/s/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.familysearch.org%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F362692&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D film 1612358] ) 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. | |||
The records for Alabama can be found in the FamilySearch Catalog Subject Search under: | The records for Alabama can be found in the FamilySearch Catalog Subject Search under: | ||