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==Introduction==
==Introduction==
==Online Resources==
==Online Resources==
*[http://www.minnesotagenealogy.com/aa.htm Minnesota African American Records]
*[https://www.findagrave.com/geographic/4?state=25 Minnesota Cemeteries] (Find A Grave)
*[http://search.ancestry.com/oldsearch/rectype/military/cwrd/db.aspx? Civil War Research Database -- Bibliography] $
*[http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=state&FSstateid=25 Minnesota Cemeteries] (Find A Grave)<br>
*[http://www.mndigital.org/reflections/ Minnesota Digital Archives]  
*[http://www.mndigital.org/reflections/ Minnesota Digital Archives]  
*[http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/colored/ Minnesota African American (Rootsweb)]  
*[http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/ Discover Freedmen] - this site searches all of the Freedmen's Bureau record collections on FamilySearch altogether (and redirects there)
*[http://www.statearchives.us/minnesota.htm Minnesota State Archives and Libraries]
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1417695 Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874]
*[http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/ The Duluth Lynchings] Online Resource
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1414908 United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872]
*[https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1231 U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867 ($)]
==Research Strategy==
==Research Strategy==
*Taylor, David Vassar [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/140626?availability=Family%20History%20Library Blacks in Minnesota: a preliminary guide to historical sources]Call Number 977.6 A1 includes index.
*Taylor, David Vassar. ''African Americans in Minnesota'' [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1350869?availability=Family%20History%20Library Call Number 977.6 F2td] (includes index).


==History==
==History==
*Taylor, David Vassar [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1350869?availability=Family%20History%20Library African Americans in Minnesota] Call Number 977.6 F2td includes index.
*[http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/ Duluth Lynchings: Background and Chronology]
*[http://www.mnopedia.org/african-americans-minnesota African Americans in Minnesota]
 
*Johnson, Frederick L. ''Uncertain lives : African Americans and their first 150 years in the Red Wing, Minnesota area''. [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1354893?availability=Family%20History%20Library Call number 977.614/R1 F2j] (includes bibliographical references and index).
*Taylor, David Vassar. ''African Americans in Minnesota'' [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1350869?availability=Family%20History%20Library Call Number 977.6 F2td] (includes index).


[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1354893?availability=Family%20History%20Library Uncertain lives&nbsp;: African Americans and their first 150 years in the Red Wing, Minnesota area] by Frederick L. Johnson Call number 977.614/R1F2 Includes bibliographical references and index.
==Resources==
==Resources==
===Biographies===
===Biographies===
===Cemeteries===
===Cemeteries===
*[https://www.findagrave.com/geographic/4?state=25 Minnesota Cemeteries] (Find A Grave)
===Census Records===
===Census Records===
===Church Records===
===Church Records===
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====Plantation====
====Plantation====
===Oral Histories===
===Oral Histories===
[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/ The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History]  
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/ T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History]  
===Other Records===
===Other Records===
===Military Records===
===Military Records===
*Board of Commissioners. [https://archive.org/details/minnesotacivil01minnrich ''Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars: 1861-1861'']. St. Paul, Minnesota: Pioneer Press Company, 1890.
*''Minnesota Adjutant General’s Report of 1866''. Roseville, Minnesota: Park Genealogical Books, 1997. (Family History Library {{FHL|688637|title-id|disp=book 977.6}}.) The report lists 26,088 names of men who served during the Civil War period, including citizen soldiers who served in local militias. It gives name, age, state or country of birth, dates of service, and remarks, and is arranged alphabetically. Family history researchers should look at both.
===Newspapers===
===Newspapers===
[http://www.archives.com/GA.aspx?_act=Obituaries&klp=5obit&cam=3394&KW2=Minnesota&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&msid=se3RX8DYZ_dc%7Cpcrid%7C23786364669%7Cpkw%7Cminnesota%20obituaries%7Cpmt%7Cb&gclid=CN3d_ff-rbkCFWfhQgodoSoAcw Minnesota Obituaries!]  
*[http://www.archives.com/GA.aspx?_act=Obituaries&klp=5obit&cam=3394&KW2=Minnesota&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&msid=se3RX8DYZ_dc%7Cpcrid%7C23786364669%7Cpkw%7Cminnesota%20obituaries%7Cpmt%7Cb&gclid=CN3d_ff-rbkCFWfhQgodoSoAcw Archives.com: Minnesota Obituaries]  
===Probate Records===
===Probate Records===
===Reconstruction Records===
===Reconstruction Records===
====Freedman’s Bank====
====Freedman’s Bank====
An excellent source is the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company (visit the [[African American Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records]] page to learn more). This company was created to assist African American soldiers of the Civil War and freed slaves. Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company signature cards or registers from 3 March 1865 to 25 July 1874 may list the name of the depositor, date of entry, age, birthplace, residence, complexion, name of employer or occupation, wife or husband’s name, death information, children’s names, name of father and mother, brothers’ and sisters’ names, remarks, and signature. Early books sometimes contained the name of the former master or mistress and the name of the plantation. Copies of death certificates were sometimes attached to the entries. The collection is organized alphabetically by state, then city where the bank was located, then date the account was established, then account number.<br>
Online collections of Freedman's Bank records:
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1417695 United States, Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874]
*[https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8755 U.S., Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1871 ($)]
====Freedmen's Bureau====
====Freedmen's Bureau====
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created by the US government in 1865 until 1872 to assist former slaves in the southern United States. The Bureau created a wide variety of records extremely valuable to genealogists.  Such documents include censuses, marriage records, and medical records.  These records often include full names, former masters and plantations, and current residences.<ref>"African American Records: Freedmen's Bureau," "African American Heritage," ''National Archives'', accessed 11 May 2018. </ref> For 1865 and 1866, the section on abandoned and confiscated lands 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. 
To find Freedmen's Bureau records:
*[http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/ DiscoverFreedmen] - the search on this site will utilize all of the Freedmen's Bureau records on FamilySearch, including:
**{{RecordSearch|2432941|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872}}
**{{RecordSearch|2432992|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872}}
**{{RecordSearch|2475025|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872}}
**{{RecordSearch|1414908|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872}}
**{{RecordSearch|2431759|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872}}
**{{RecordSearch|2515868|United States, Freedmen's Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872 }}
**{{RecordSearch|2515865|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Freedmen's Court Records, 1865-1872 }}
**{{RecordSearch|2515867|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872 }}
**{{RecordSearch|2492627|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints, 1865-1872 }}
**{{RecordSearch|2427894|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872 }}
Other FamilySearch collections not included:
*{{RecordSearch|2575789|United States Freedmen's Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872 }}
*{{RecordSearch|2721171|United States Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872 }}
*{{RecordSearch|2427901|''United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872'' }} Images only. These reports primarily contain statistical and historical information. 
*More collections are available in the FamilySearch Catalog. Search for "FREEDMEN - MINNESOTA" in the Subjects search bar to find.
Visit the [[African American Freedmen's Bureau Records]] page to learn more about utilizing these records.<br>
===School Records===
===School Records===
===Slavery Records===
===Slavery Records===
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====Birth====
====Birth====
====Marriage====
====Marriage====
The Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1872) was created by the US government to assist former slaves in the southern United States. One of their responsibilities was to record the marriages (past and present) of the former slaves. These records can be found in the collections below and include the lists of marriages that occurred previously, marriage certificates, and marriage licenses.  The information contained on the records may include the name of the husband and wife/groom and bride, age, occupation, residence, year or date of marriage, by whom, number of children, and remarks.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1414908 United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872]
*[https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1231 U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867]
====Death====
====Death====
====Divorce====
====Divorce====
===Voting Registers===
===Voting Registers===
==Archives and Libraries==
==Archives and Libraries==
*[http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/index.htm Minnesota State Archives]  
For a list of archives and libraries in Minnesota: [http://www.statearchives.us/minnesota.htm Minnesota State Archives and Libraries]. <br><br>
*[http://www.statearchives.us/minnesota.htm Minnesota State Archives and Libraries]  
 
*[http://www.mnsu.edu/find/results.php?key_words=+collections MNSU Collections] Minnesota State University
[https://mndigital.org/ '''Minnesota Digital Library''']<br>
University of Minnesota<br>
Wilson Library, Room 60<br>
309 19th Avenue South<br>
Minneapolis, MN 55455<br>
Phone: 612-624-4002<br><br>
 
[http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/index.php '''Minnesota State Archives''']<br>
 
==Societies==
==Societies==
[http://www.maamcc.org/ Minnesota African American Museum and Cultural Center] Descendants of history-makers meet at Historic Fort Snelling: A solemn sense of history and perhaps even some ghosts were in the air Thursday at Historic Fort Snelling, when the descendants of 19th-century figures central to events involving white settlers, black slaves and American Indians came together.
[http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/ '''Minnesota Historical Society''']<br>
345 W. Kellogg Blvd. <br>
St. Paul, MN 55102<br>
Phone: 651-259-3000<br>
 


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