African-American Genealogy

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Research

• Some Research Tips On How To Get Started Tracing Your African-American Roots
  
• The Challenge of African-American Genealogy
  
• African-American Research
  
• Black Roots: A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree
  

Guides and Lists

• Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
  
• African-American Genealogy - Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  
• Cyndi's List - African-American
  
• AccessGenealogy - African American Resources
  
• Genealogy Resources on the Internet - African-American Resources
  
• AfriGeneas ~ African American & African Ancestored Genealogy
  
• Christine's Genealogy Web Site - African-American Genealogy
  
• African-American Genealogy
  
• Doll's Genealogy Site - African-American Genealogy
  
• Freedman's Bureau Online
  
• African-American Genealogy Mine
  

Regions

• New York Genealogy - African American Genealogy Research
  
• African-Native American History & Genealogy - Estelusti ~ The Freedmen Oklahoma's Black Indians
  
• Alabama African-American Genealogy
  
• Michigan People of Color GenWeb
  
• Ohio African-American Genealogy
  
• Black Families of Alabama's Black Belt
  
• African-American Cemeteries Online
  
• African-American Genealogical Society of Northern California
  
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy
  
• African-American Genealogial Society of Cleveland, Ohio
  
• Afro-Americans in Missouri
  
• African-Americans in Southeastern Ohio
  
• People of Color in the Old South
  
• Illinois Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722–1863)
  
• Free African-Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware
  

Articles at

• The Challenge of African American Research
• African American Research, Part 1
• African American Research, Part 2
• African American Research, Part 3: Case Studies
• Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide
• Help for African American Research
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy

Search Databases at

• Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina Black Deaths 1871-89
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820 (Free)
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820 (Slave)

Books at

Finding your African American Ancestors (Scratch & Dent)

History of the Black Population of Amherst, Massachusetts 1728-1870

Books and CDs from

Finding Your African-American Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide

Full Circle: A Directory of Native and African Americans, Windham County, Connecticut, 1650-1900

Book of African Names

Admission Record, Indianapolis Asylum for Friendless Colored Children, 1871-1900

Slave Narratives (CD-ROM)

District of Columbia Free Negro Registers 1821-1861

Slave Ancestral Research: It's Something Else

Generations Past: A Selected List of Sources for Afro-American Genealogical Research

We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia, A 200-Year Family History

African American Inhabitants of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 1 June - 4 September 1870

Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide With Case Studies

Free Born : 350 Years of Eastern Shore African American History - The Adams/Beckett Family

In Full Force and Virtue: North Carolina Emancipation Records, 1713-1860

Free Black Heads of Households in the New York State Federal Census, 1790-1830

Black Genesis (Gale Genealogy and Local History Series ; V. 1)

Black Indian Genealogy Research

Family Records of the African American Pioneers of Tampa and Hillsborough County

Index to the Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly: Issues of 1980-1990

Some Slaveholders and Their Slaves, Union Parish, Louisiana, 1839-1865

Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810

Abstracts of Some Greenville County South Carolina Records Concerning Black People Free and Slave 1791-1865

Index to the Cherokee Freedmen Enrollment Cards of the Dawes Commission 1901-1906

Alexandria Country Virginia Free Negro Registers: Free Negro Registers, 1797-1861

African-American Genealogy Workbook: Finding Your Roots

The 1850 Slave Inhabitants of Accomac County Virginia

The African American Cemeteries of Petersburg, Virginia: Continuity and Change

Slaves and Nonwhite Free Persons in the 1790 Federal Census of New York

Black Families in Hampden County Massachusetts 1650-1855

Instruments of Freedom: Deeds and Willis of Emancipation, Northampton County, Virginia, 1782-1864

Index to District of Columbia Wills, 1801-1920

Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts, 1742-1998

The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution

Forgotten Hoosiers: African heritage in Orange County, Indiana

Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello