African American Research

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United States > African American Research African American Genealogy [[Image:Template:LargestAncestry]] Did you know? The first African settlers in the U.S. were 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. Key Internet Links African American Quick Guide pdf Finding African Americans 1870-Present 1870 United States Census Family History Library Bibliography of African-American Sources Freedman Bank Records 1865-1874 Freedmen’s Bureau Virginia Marriages 1815-1866 Freedmen's Bureau Field Offices 1865-1872 Southern Claims Commission African-American Migration Experience North American Slave Narratives African-American Resources at FamilySearch Forums Resting Places of United States Colored Troops, Officers and Sailors African American Cemeteries Online American Memory - Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860 African American Genealogical Society of Northern California Digital Library on American Slavery The Menare Foundation Restoring the Ancestors Indexing Project:  SC Estate Inventories Access Genealogy: African American Genealogy Civil War Soldiers and Sailors World War I Draft Registration National Archives African American Research Genealogy.com African American Institute of African American Research African American Research Library and Cultural Center African Ancestored Genealogy Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyages Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture African American Gateway The USF Africana Heritage Project Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870 Free African Americans of VA, NC, SC, MD, DE American Slave Narratives Africans in the Low Country AfriGeneas Things you can do In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need to be done. You can help by: Expand an article or short page Create a new article Categorize articles Add external links to articles Add internal links to articles Other...