African American Online Genealogy Records

African American

Online Genealogy Records

These are genealogy links to African American online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records. Some subscription websites listed below can be searched for free at a family history center or FamilySearch affiliate library.

Vital Records Births 1780-1846: US Slave Birth Records at FamilySearch; index & images Marriages 1861-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau Marriages at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at : Findmypast ($) Marriage Records at International African American Museum; index & images Unidentified New Hampshire Marriages, Certificates of Marriage, Persons Unknown (beginning #394) Deaths Divorce Bible Records Biographies 1790-1950: African American Biographical Database at African American Biographical Database 1936-1938: Born in Slavery at Library of Congress; images only Biographies of Famous African Americans at Infoplease; index only First-Person Narratives of the American South at Documenting the American South; index only Slave Biographies at Atlantic Database Network; index only North American Slave Narratives at Documenting the American South; index only Most Important Black Women in US History at ThoughtCo; index only Slave Narratives at Access Genealogy; index only Virginia Untold: Slave Narratives at Digital Collections Library of Virginia; index & images ($) Voices Remembering Slavery at Library of Congress; audio files Cemetery Records Census 1850: US Federal Census - Slave Schedules at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1860: US Federal Census - Slave Schedules at Ancestry; index & images ($) Church Records 1903-1939: African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Records, 1903-1939, Winchester, Conn Court and Criminal Records Freedman's Bank Records 1865-1874: US Freedman's Bank Records at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) Freedman's Bureau Records 1863-1872: District of Columbia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education at FamilySearch; index & images 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner at FamilySearch; images only 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Commissioner at FamilySearch; images only 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints at FamilySearch; index & images 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records at FamilySearch; index & images 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records at FamilySearch; index & images 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau Miscellaneous Records at FamilySearch; index & images 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau Ration Records at FamilySearch; index & images 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen at FamilySearch; index & images 1865-1878: US Freedmen's Bureau Records at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1872-1878: US Freedmen's Branch Records at FamilySearch; images only

Funeral Home Records Land Records 1827-1828: US Definitive List of Slaves and Property at Ancestry; index & images ($) Medical Records 1865-1872: US Freedmen's Bureau Hospital and Medical Records at FamilySearch; index & images Migration Records 1790-1860: US Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests at Ancestry; index & images ($) Military See United States Colored Troops in the Civil War 1861-1865: US Records of Confederate Prisoners of War at FamilySearch; images only 1861-1865: US Register of Colored Troop Deaths During the Civil War at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1861-1866: US Compiled Military Service Records Of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With The US Colored Troops at FamilySearch; index & images 1863-1865: US Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1864: US Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers at Ancestry; index & images ($) Colored Troops Pension Files at International African American Museum; index & images Newspapers 1827-1998: African American Newspapers at Readex ($) 1829-1947: US African American Newspapers at Ancestry; index & images ($) Obituaries Obituaries and Funeral Programs at International African American Museum; index & images Occupations Oral History 1936-1938: US Interviews with Formerly Enslaved People at Ancestry; index & images ($) Periodicals 1825-1995: African American Periodicals at Readex ($) Probate Records Slavery and Bondage 1490-2007: Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice at Adam Matthew ($) 1740-1860: Slaves and the Courts at Library of Congress; images only 1765-1821: Inspection Roll of Negroes No. 2 at National Archives Catalog; images only ($) 1790-1860: US Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1827-1828: US Definitive List of Slaves and Property at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1936-1938: US Interviews with Former Enslaved People at Ancestry; index & images ($) American Slavery at The University of North Carolina Greensboro Southern Claims Commission See Slavery Era Insurance Registry 1871-1880: US Southern Claims Commission Master Index at Ancestry; index & images ($) Tax Records

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