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For the most part, besides being counted as chattel on tax records, land deeds, and census slave schedules, African Americans were not counted as people until the 1870 census. Other records of interest would be church records, which notes people of color being allowed or dispelled from the church, etc., but they were not always given a surname. Sometimes they were noted by their first name and "as belonging to 'X' slaveholder." Therefore, African American researchers are very dependent upon getting information from the slaveholding family's documentation. | For the most part, besides being counted as chattel on tax records, land deeds, and census slave schedules, African Americans were not counted as people until the 1870 census. Other records of interest would be church records, which notes people of color being allowed or dispelled from the church, etc., but they were not always given a surname. Sometimes they were noted by their first name and "as belonging to 'X' slaveholder." Therefore, African American researchers are very dependent upon getting information from the slaveholding family's documentation. | ||
* LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, ''Gleaning Information About Enslaved Ancestors from Probate Files'' NGS Magazine 48 #3 (April-June 2022): 23-27 | * LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, ''{{FSC|4469739|disp=Gleaning Information About Enslaved Ancestors from Probate Files}}'' NGS Magazine 48 #3 (April-June 2022): 23-27, FamilySearch Library call number 973 D25ngs v.48 no.2. | ||
===Resources for Marriage, Census, and Cemetery Data=== | ===Resources for Marriage, Census, and Cemetery Data=== | ||