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African American Online Database This is a collection of links to African American Online databases.
Vital Records Births Marriages Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1815-1869 Free! African American Marriage Records Database- AfriGeneas Deaths Virginia, African-American Funeral Programs, 1935-2009 Free! Social Security Death Index African American Obituaries, Funeral Programs and Cemetery Records - AfriGeneas 'Bank Records Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874 Free! (M817 Deposit Ledgers in Branches of the Freedman's Saving and Trust Company). African American Biography Slave Narratives - Library of Congress Access Genealogy Slave Narratives African American Biographical Database - from Chadwyck-Healey. Information for more than 30,000 African Americans (1790-1950) Bureau of Refugee, Freedmen and Abandoned Land Country-Wide Freedman Bureau Field Offices 1865-1872 ($) United States Public Records, 1970-2009 Free! District of Columbia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872 Free! Virginia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Free! United States, Freedmen's Branch Records, 1872-1878 Images only. Free! United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Commissioner,1865-1872 Images Only. Free! United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872 Images only. Free! Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874 Free! (M817 Deposit Ledgers in Branches of the Freedman's Saving and Trust Company). United States, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1864-1879 - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) Images only. Free! Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1815-1869 Free! Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1871- Ancestry index/images $ U.S., Freedmen Bureau Records of Field Offices, 1863-1878- Ancestry index/images $ Mapping the Freedman's Bureau is a new web site helping researchers put their ancestors back on the historical landscape where they lived. Mapping includes Where Freedman's Bureau offices were located Branch of the Freedman's Saving Bank, Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals Freedmen's Schools Contraband Camps Battle sites where men who were in the US colored Troops fought. State-Wide Alabama, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! Arkansas, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1864-1872 Images Only. Free! District of Columbia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872 Free! Georgia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! Kentucky, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! Louisiana, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! Mississippi, Freedmen's Department (Pre-Bureau Records), 1863-1866 Images Only. Free! Mississippi, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! Missouri, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! North Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner Records, 1862-1870 Images Only. Free! North Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872 Images Only. Free! South Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! Tennessee, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Images Only. Free! Texas, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1870 Images Only. Free! Virginia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Free! The free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865 (1913) Cemeteries Find a Grave Billion Graves Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans 1925-1949 African American Cemeteries Online Resting Places of United States Colored Troops, Officers and Sailors Veterans Administration Gravesite Locater United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903 Census US Federal 1790-1940 1870 United States Census 1880 United States Census 1890 United States Census 1900 United States Census 1910 United States Census 1920 United States Census 1930 United States Census 1940 United States Census Slave Schedules 1850 and 1860 1850  - Ancestry ($) 1860  - Ancestry ($) State Census See Family Search Wiki article State Census for the State you are interested in: Example New York Census Collections American Memory - Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860 Digital Library on American Slavery The Atlantic Slave Database Network: A New Resource for Scholars Institute of African American Research African American Women Students at the University of Iowa, 1910-1960. Free! Maps Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau Migration Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database by Emory University (information on more than 35,000 slave voyages) also known as: Voyages, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Inspection Roll of Negroes Book No. 2; Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention 1765-1821. The African-American Migration Experience by New York Public Library Military Records United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 [1] Revolutionary War Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records, 1775-1783 Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872 Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications Genealogical Research System of Daughters of the American Revolution War of 1812 War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815 War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910 Civil War United States Colored Troops in the Civil War Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops, 1863-1865 United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865M598 U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1863-1865  - Ancestry  index/images $ U.S., Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers, 1864- ncestry  index/images $ U.S., Register of Colored Troop Deaths During the Civil War, 1861-1865 - Ancestry index/images $			Newspapers Historical newspapers NewspaperArchive.com($). Ancestry.com($) Digital Historical Newspapers Online Historical Newspapers Website (lists of both free and $) Wikipedia (lists both free and $) Genealogybank.com ($) U.S., African American Newspapers, 1829-1947 - Ancestry index/images ($) Library of Congress Historic American Newspapers Google News Archive Free Newspaper Archives in the US Elephind.com Search engine that links to websites containing newspapers. Current Newspapers RootsWeb Obituary Daily Times (free) has a searchable database of over 14 million modern-day obituaries extracted by volunteers. Most are from 2000 or later, but some date back to the 1980s. ABYZ Newslinks (free) has a directory of links to newspapers online organized by state and city. OnlineNewspapers.com (free) links to United States newspapers online. SHG Resources State Handbook and Guide (free) links to current U.S. newspapers online. RootsWeb Newspaper Index.Database contains 454,372 records (48,485 surnames). Selected states, counties and newspapers (as contributed). WorldVitalRecords.comhas an extensive collection of online newspapers. African American Newspapers African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 from Readex(available at many libraries) Historical Black Newspapers from ProQuest Newspaper(available at many libraries) Harvard Newspaper Lathan A. Windley, Runaway Slave Advertisements: a Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790, 4 v. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983). Contents: Vol.1 Virginia and North Carolina -- v.2 Maryland -- v.3 South Carolina -- v.4 Georgia. Oral History American Slave Narratives Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 North American Slave Narratives First-Person Narratives of the American South Voices from the Days of Slavery The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography by George P. Rawick. 19 volumes with Supplement, Series 1 and 2 make 42 volumes. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co., [1972- Periodicals African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 from Readex  (available at many libraries) American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection from Ebsco (available at many libraries) Historical Newspapers and Periodicals from ProQuest (available at many libraries) International Index to Black Periodicals from ProQuest (available at many libraries) Repositories National Archives African-American Heritage Black History The State Historical Society of Missouri African American Genealogy. Free! Library of Congress Library of Congress - African American University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of African American Research Slave Trade Country-Wide American Memory - Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860 Digital Library on American Slavery by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Records that pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade Digital Library on American Slavery by University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice from Adam Matthew Digital Free at Last Slavery in Pittsburgh Colonial: Inspection Roll of Negroes Book No. 2; Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention 1765-1821. U.S., Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests, 1790-1860- Ancestry index/images $ U.S., Interviews with Former Slaves, 1936-1938 - Ancestry index/images ($) State-Wide Louisiana, Slave Records, 1719-1820 - Ancestry index ($) Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849- Ancestry  index/images $ New Orleans, Louisiana, Slave Manifests, 1807-1860 - Ancestry index/images ($) The Texas Runaway Slave Project Washington, D.C., Slave Owner Petitions, 1862-1863- Ancestry index/images $ Washington, D.C., Slave Emancipation Records, 1851-1863- Ancestry index/images $ Slave Data Collection - AfriGeneas Southern Claims Commission Southern Claims Commission Slavery Era Insurance Registry U.S. Southern Claims Commission Master Index, 1871-1880- Ancestry index/images $ Online Sources Search these sites for: African American, Black Americans,and African American Genealogy National Archives Freedmen's Bureau Online AfriGeneas Dogpile makes searching the Web easy, it has all the best search engines piled into one. Genealogy.com Ancestry.com ($) FamilySearch GenealogyInTime Magazine BlackPast.org African American Genealogy Surnames African American Surnames - AfriGeneas