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Resources for African American Genealogy
The Freedmen’s Bureau | National Archives – NARA
Researching African American Genealogy provides step-by-step guidance for beginning your ancestor search, as well as links to online resources.
Quick Guide to African American Records contains information on beginning research tips, links to suggested guides for beginning your search for African American ancestors, overviews of major record sets, tips for finding the slaveholder, links to tutorials for African American genealogy in the FamilySearch Learning Center, and links to other online and offline resources.
Southern States Slavery and Bondage Collections will help you locate digitized searchable collections as well as digitized microfilms in the FamilySearch catalog related to slavery and bondage. The page is arranged by state.
African American Genealogy provides links to Wiki pages for researching African Americans in each U.S. state.
Freedmen’s Bureau Digital Collection | NMAAHC.FB | SOVA, Smithsonian Institution
Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal | National Museum of African American History and Culture
Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861–1880
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