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African American Genealogy on the Web / Federal Records

  • African-American Research: Introduction to Links and Resources (National Archives & Records Administration)
  • Black Family Research: Using the Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives (Reginald Washington)
  • Black Studies: A Select Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications
  • Documenting African Americans in the Records of Military Agencies (Lisha Penn)
  • Federal Records and African American History
    Summer 1997 issue of Prologue (Vol. 29, No. 2) from the National Archives "focuses on the use of federal records in African American historical research"
  • The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and African American Genealogical Research (Reginald Washington)
  • Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview (Elaine C. Everly)
  • The Freedmen's Bureau Online
  • Genealogical and Biographical Research: A Select Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications
  • Marriage Registers of Freedmen (Elaine C. Everly)
  • Preserving the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops (Budge Weidman)
  • Researching African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1890: Buffalo Soldiers and Black Infantrymen (Trevor K. Plante)
  • Sealing the Sacred Bonds of Holy Matrimony: Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records (Reginald Washington)
  • "Their . . . Bedding is Wet, Their floors are Damp:" "Pre-Bureau" Records and Civil War African American Genealogy (Rebecca K. Sharp)

 
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