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This week's blog from Crestleaf is a veritable "linkathon" for those research their African American roots!
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But don’t get to frustrated just yet. There are plenty of great African-American genealogy resources available on and offline, so we compiled a list of 80 African-American ancestry links to help you fill in some genealogy research holes and add missing stories to your family tree.
From African-American surnames, to Freedmen’s Bureau records collections and helpful blogs, you’re likely to find a long lost family member by utilizing our list below.
Resources for Discovering your African-American Ancestors
- Access Genealogy: Black Genealogy Records
- AfriGeneas: African-American Census Schedules Online
- Free African Americans
- Lowcountry Africana
- United States Census Bureau
- Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records
- Death Pentalty USA – Database of United States Executions
- 1870 Federal Census Black and Mulatto Households – Perry County, Alabama
- Register of Slaves Brought into Alabama – After January 16, 1832 in Perry County
- Census Links
- National Archives Freedmen’s Bureau Records
- The Freedmen’s Bureau Online
- Freedmen & Southern Society Project
- Early Black Marriages of Fort Smith, Arkansas
- Freedmen’s Bureau Records at the Africana Archives
- Freedmen’s Bureau Reports – Hernando County, Florida
- Arkansas Freedmen of the Frontier
- The Valley of the Shadow Freedmen’s Bureau Records
- Mapping the Freedmen’s Bureau – An interactive map that assists researchers in determining if there was a Bureau office near their ancestral home.
- The African-American Migration Experience
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Voyage to Discovery – Untold Stories of African-Americans and the Sea
- African-American Surname Matches
- Unknown No Longer – Database of Virginia Slave Names
- AfriGeneas Surname Search
- Caribbean Surname Index
- American Memory Collection – From the Library of Congress
- Online Historical Newspapers – The Ancestor Hunt
- BlackRefer: African-American Newspaper Listings
- National Archives African-American Heritage Resources
- Researching Southern Claims Commission Records – St. Louis County Library
- Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center: African-American Gateway
- Documenting the American South
- The USF Africana Heritage Project
- The Amistad Research Center
- Connecticut State Library: African-American Genealogy Resources
- University of North Carolina Greensboro Digital Library on American Slavery
- Enoch-Pratt Free Library: African-American Genealogy
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Brooklyn Public Library – Black Genealogy Research
- The Center for African-American Genealogy Research
- African-American Genealogical Society of Northern California
- The African-American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley (Ohio)
- Black Belt African American Genealogical & Historical Society
- African American Genealogy Interest Group – Facebook group
- Oberlin African-American Genealogy & History Group
- African American Genealogical Society of Cleveland, Ohio
- African-American Genealogy Group of Philadelphia
- International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry
- African Ancestry: DNA Testing Kits – Trace your DNA. Find your roots.
- Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South – 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, 1890s – 1950s.
- Our Georgia Roots – Honoring our ancestors of Wilkes and Warren Counties
- Our Alabama Roots – Honoring our ancestors of Barbour, Henry and Houston Counties
- Taneya’s Genealogy Blog
- Roots Revealed
- Who is Nicka Smith?
- Terrence Garnett’s Family Research
- Finding Eliza
- Notes to Myself
- Between the Gate Posts
- Our Black Ancestry
- Black Loyalist
- Finding African Americans on the 1870 Census
- Christine’s Genealogy Website
- African Roots Podcast
- Reclaiming Kin
- The Black Past: Remembered & Reclaimed
- The African-Native American Genealogy Page
- The African-American Migration Experience
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740 – 1860
- American Slave Narratives
- African-American Coal Miner Information Page
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