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	Subject Guides African-American Genealogy Resources U.S. Federal Censuses \| Pre-Civil War Era (Before 1860) \| Military Resources \| Slavery Resources Court Records \| Census Records \| Land Records \| Cemetery Records \| County Records Guide Resources \| Reconstruction Resources \| Vital & Related Records \| Web Online Resources United States Federal Censuses: 1870 – 1930 Federal Censuses (formats) Microfilm (for selected states – see census guide on webpage) Ancestry Library Edition (online) Pre-Civil War Era (Before 1860) Author: Bentley, Elizabeth Petty Title: The County Courthouse Book Call Number: GEN 347.7302025 B477c 1995 Contains records from outside of Duval County. It provides addresses and fees for obtaining land, naturalization, probate and vital records throughout the 50 states and U.S. territories Title: List of Free Black Heads of Families in the First Census of the United States, 1790 Call Number: GEN 929.373 N552l * Provides a list of the head of household’s name, number of persons in the household and county of residence* Editor: George P. Rawick Title: The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Volume 17, Florida Narrative Call Number: GEN 305.5670973 A512 vols. 6 & 17 * Contains transcriptions of interviews conducted by the WPA with former slaves and relatives. The Library also owns the volume for Alabama* Author: Ancestry Library Edition Title: Slave Narratives Call Number: Available online at Ancestry Library Edition * Contains over 20,000 pages of type-scripted interviews with more than 3,500 former slaves, collected over a ten-year period by the WPA, Federal Writer´s Project* Author: U.S. Federal Census Title: 1850 & 1860 Slave Census Schedules Call Number: Microfilm and Ancestry Library Edition * Entries include owner’s name and a listing of slaves by age and gender. Slave names are not included* Military Resources Revolutionary War (1775-1783) Author: Greene, Robert Ewell Title: Black courage, 1775-1783: Documentation of Black Participation in the American Revolution Call Number: GEN 973.346 G811b Compiled by: Newman, Debra L. Title: List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records Call Number: GEN 973.34 N552l Civil War (1861-1865) Author: Gladstone, William A. Title: United States colored troops, 1863-1867 Call Number: GEN 973.7415 G543u Author: Callum, Agnes Kane Title: Colored volunteers of Maryland: bounty records of 9th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 1863-1866 Call Number: GEN 973.7415 C163c Compiled/Edited by: Gourdin, J. Raymond Title: 104th Infantry Regiment, USCT: colored Civil War soldiers from South Carolina Call Number: GEN 929.3757 G714o Additional Resources: The Roster of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 The Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 1890 Veterans and Widows Census (MICROFILM) Civil War Slave Compensation Claims in compiled Military Service Records of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/jkh/slaveclaims/index-links.htm "Census" Department of the South, November 1864, for Jacksonville, Fernandina and St. Augustine, FL – GEN 929.375912 F636c This is a census ordered by the United States Federal military authorities, possibly motivated by an effort to register voters under Lincoln’s "10%" reconstruction plan. The enumeration of African Americans would have been of use to the Union military looking for new recruits into the Colored Troops regiments. American Wars (Revolutionary/Civil/WWI) Edited by: Frank N. Schubert Title: On the trail of the buffalo soldier: biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 Call Number: GEN 355.0092273 O58 * Contains an alphabetical index of soldiers* Author: Moebs, Thomas Truxtun Title: Black soldiers - Black sailors - Black ink: research guide on African-Americans in U.S. military history, 1526-1900 Call Number: GEN 016.9730496 M693b [Microfilm] Blacks in the U.S. Armed Forces vols. 1-13 Call Number: AFR 355.008966 B627 * Contains researched documentation of African Americans in the Armed Forces* SLAVERY RESOURCES Transcribed/Indexed by: Wynne, Frances Holloway Title: Register of free Negroes and also of dower slaves, Brunswick County, Virginia, 1803-1850 Call Number: GEN 929.3755575 W933r Compiled by: Helen Cox Tregillis Title: River roads to freedom: fugitive slave notices and sheriff notices found in Illinois sources Call Number: GEN 929.3773 T786r Author: Byrd, William L. Title: In full force and virtue: North Carolina emancipation records, 1713-1860 Call Number: GEN 929.3756 B995i Author: Dill, Harry F. Title: Some slaveholders and their slaves: Union Parish, Louisiana, 1839-1865 Call Number: GEN 929.376389 D578s * Contains abstracts of slave deeds and abstracts of succession* Author: U.S. Federal Census Title: 1850 & 1860 Slave Census Schedule Call Number: Ancestry Library Edition * contains information by the name of the slave owner; entries include owner’s name and a listing of slaves by age and gender; slave names are not included* [Microfilm] Papers of the American Slave Trade - 20 Reels Call Number: AFR 306.3620973 P214 Port of New Orleans, LA Inward Bound Slave Manifests, 1807-1860 – 10 Reels Call Number: AFR 929.376335 U58 Port of New Orleans, LA Outward Bound Slave Manifests, 1812-1860 – 12 Reels Call Number: AFR 929.376335 U58o Slave Narratives – 11 Reels Call Number: AFR 306.362. S631 * Contains stories by former slaves from various states* COURT RECORDS Author: Duval County Court Records Title: Court Records Call Number: Microfilm * Probate records include wills and inventories. Local county records such as wills and inventories often include the slave’s name, age, gender, skills and value* See also "County Courts Records & web page for Duval, Clay, and St. Johns counties * Author: Houston, William R. M. Title: Colonial residents of Virginia's Eastern Shore: whose ages were proved before court officials of Accomack and Northampton counties Call Number: GEN 929.375515 H843c Author: Provine, Dorothy S. Title: Index to District of Columbia wills, 1801-1920 Call Number: GEN 929.3753 P969i * Entries are arranged alphabetically by name of the person making the will and the year the will was filed. Although most of the wills are by middle & upper-class whites, there is a significant amount of blacks listed as well* Author: Provine, Dorothy S. Title: Index to District of Columbia wills, 1921- 1950 Call Number: GEN 929.3753 P969i * Entries give the name of the testators and the year the will was probated or filed* Abstracted by: Patton, Juanita M. Title: Land, slaves, and other courthouse transactions, 1808-1863: abstracts of Sumner County, Tennessee Call Number: GEN 929.376847 P322l Author: Wiltshire, Betty Couch Title: Carroll County, Mississippi estate records: 1840-1869 with freedman apprenticeships Call Number: GEN 929.3762633 W756c CENSUS RECORDS Compiled by: Newman, Debra L. Title: List of free Black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790 Call Number: GEN 929.373 N552l Author: Carothers, Bettie Stirling. Title: 1776 census of Maryland Call Number: GEN 929.3 3752 C293s, 1776 Author: Eichholz, Alice Title: Free Black heads of household in the New York State federal census, 1790-1830 Call Number: GEN 929.3747 E34f, 1981a * An alphabetical index of heads of African American households* LAND RECORDS Compiled by: Partlow, Thomas E. Title: Wilson County, Tennessee trust deeds, 1828-1868 Call Number: GEN 929.376854 P273w * Deals with the buying & selling of slaves in Wilson County. Slaves were included as part of real and personal property, such as mortgages.* Abstracted by: Motes, Margaret Peckham Title: Blacks found in the deeds of Laurens & Newberry counties, SC, 1785 to 1827 Call Number: GEN 929.37573 M917b CEMETERY RECORDS NOTE For Duval County Cemetery Records are located in the genealogy 929.375912 call number area. Compiled by: Title: African-American burials in the Old City Cemetery, Jacksonville, FL. Call Number: GEN 929.375912 A258 Compiled by: The Genealogical Committee of Georgia Historical Society Title: Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia Call Number: GEN 929.3758724 L378 v.1 * Lists both black and white deceased buried in Laural Grove Cemetery, with slaves listed with the names of their owners* Compiled by: Ferguson, Jon R. Title: Mt. Zion AME Cemetery #1 Black, Mt. Zion Baptist Cemetery Black, Mt. Zion Cemetery, Black a.k.a. Lone Star Cemetery, New Mt. Zion Holiness Church : Jacksonville, Duval County Call Number: GEN 929.375912 F352m Compiled by: Howard & Ferguson Title: Old Evergreen Cemetery, Palm Springs Cemetery (Black), Parrish Cemetery: Jacksonville, Duval County Florida. Also known as "Old Duval Colored Cemetery – aka – Freedman’s Cemetery Call Number: GEN 929.375912 F352o Compiled by: Ferguson, Jon R. Title: Smith Cemetery, St. Nicholas Cemetery predominately [sic] black, St. Nicholas Cemetery/white: Jacksonville, Duval County Florida Call Number: GEN 929.375912 F352s Compiled by: Carey, Mary Frances Title: Tombstone inscriptions of upper Accomack County, Virginia Call Number: GEN 929.375516 C275t * Contains a section of African American tombstones inscription in Accomack County. Entries are listed alphabetically by last name.* COUNTY RECORDS Author: Boyd-Rush, Dorothy A. Title: Register of free Blacks, Rockingham County, Virginia, 1807-1859 Call Number: GEN 929.3 B789r Author: Meyer, Mary Keysor. Title: Free Blacks in Harford, Somerset, and Talbot counties, Maryland, 1832 Call Number: GEN 929.3752 M613f, 1991a Abstracted/Indexed by: Author, Provine, Dorothy S. Title: Alexandria County, Virginia: free negro registers, 1797-1861 Call Number: GEN 929.3755295 P969a Author: Clayton, Ralph. Title: Free Blacks of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Call Number: GEN 929.375255 C622f Author: Byrd, William L. Title: North Carolina slaves and free persons of color: Iredell County Call Number: GEN 929.3756 B995ni Author: Byrd, William L. Title: North Carolina slaves and free persons of color: Hyde and Beaufort counties Call Number: GEN 929.3756 B995nh Author: Byrd, William L. Title: North Carolina slaves and free persons of color: Chowan County Call Number: GEN 929.3756 B995nc v.1 Author: Byrd, William L. Title: North Carolina slaves and free persons of color: Mecklenburg, Gaston, and Union counties Call Number: GEN 929.3756 B995nm Author: Byrd, William L. Title: North Carolina slaves and free persons of color: Stokes and Yadkin counties Call Number: GEN 929.3756 B995ns Author: Byrd, William L. Title: North Carolina slaves and free persons of color: Burke, Lincoln, and Rowan counties Call Number: GEN 929.3756 B995nb GUIDE RESOURCES Edited by: Paula K. Byers Title: African American genealogical sourcebook Call Number: GEN 929.108996073 A258 Author: Rose, James M. Title: Black genesis: a resource book for African-American genealogy Call Number: 929.108996 R796b, 2003 Transcribed/Index by: Susan Hawkes Cook Title: The Black loyalist directory: African Americans in exile after the American Revolution Call Number: GEN 973.0496073 B627 Author: Heinegg, Paul Title: Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the colonial period to about 1820 Call Number: GEN 929.375 H468f 2005 vols.1-2 [Microfilm] Proceedings of the National Emigration Convention for Colored People Call Number: AFR 325.273 N277P (1 reel) RECONSTRUCTION RESOURCES Freedmen Records: Created by the War Department in 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing and medicine. Abstracted by: Reaves, Bill Title: North Carolina Freedman's Savings & Trust Company records Call Number: GEN 929.3756 N864 * Contains entries of African American bank depositors. It provides useful information, such as, physical characteristics, family information, and age* Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration Title: Records of the field offices for the state of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872. Call Number: GEN 016.973714 U58Zr Compiled by: Walker, Alice O. Title: Registers of signatures of depositors in the Augusta, Georgia, Branch of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Call Number: GEN 929.375864 W177r v. 1 Extracted/Compiled by: Kambourian, Elizabeth Cann Title: The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia: names of destitute freedmen dependent upon the government in the military districts of Call Number: GEN 929.3755 K15f Compiled by: Provine, Dorothy S. Title: District of Columbia free Negro registers, 1821-1861 vols. 1-2 Call Number: GEN 929.3753 P969d * An index of manumission records* Author: Page, Jo Ann Curls Title: Index to the Cherokee freedmen enrollment cards of the Dawes Commission, 1901-1906 Call Number: GEN 929.3089975 P132i * Cherokee freedmen were African Americans slaves of the Cherokee Indians. At least one parent was African American. It lists the names of each family member, their age, and the relationship to the head of the household* Author: Lawson, Jacqueline A. Title: An index of African Americans identified in selected records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Call Number: GEN 929.308996 L425i [Microfilm] Freedman’s Aid Society Records (Series 1-10), 1866-1932 Call Number: 371.829 F855 (12 reels) Indexes to Deposit Ledgers in Branches of the Freedman's Savings & Trust, 1865-1874 Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings & Trust, 1865-1874 Field Office Records (Florida only) [Online] Freedmen’s Bureau Online http://freedmensbureau.com/ Southern Claims Commission The Southern Claims Commission was established in 1871 to review the claims of Southerners who had "furnished stores and supplies for the use of U.S. Army" during the Civil War. Testimonies include a wealth of personal data including names and ages of former slaves, their places of residence, names of slave owners, plantation conditions, wills and probate matters, slave manumissions, slave ownership of property, slave and free black entrepreneurship, conditions of free blacks, and a great deal more on what it was like to live as an African American during slavery and the post-slavery period. Title: Southern Loyalists in the Civil War: the Southern Claims Commission Call Number: GEN 929.375 M657s Title: Civil War Claims in the South: an Index of Civil War Damage Claims Filed Before the Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880 Call Number: GEN 929.375 M657c VITAL & RELATED RECORDS Edited by: Morales, Leslie Anderson Title: Virginia slave births index, 1853-1865 Call Number: GEN 929.3755 V817 v.1 * Index contains names of slave owners, infant’s name, mother’s name, date of birth, and the place of birth* Compiled by: Munson, Barry Title: Afro-American death notices from eastern North Carolina newspapers, 1859-1935 Call Number: GEN 929.3756 M969a Compiled by: Munson, Barry Title: Afro-American death notices from eastern North Carolina newspapers, 1860-1948 Call Number: GEN 929.3756 M969a Copied by: Ackerman Hawkey(for Bergen Co.His.Soc...from original manuscript, December-January 1923) Title: Book of black birth in Bergen County, N.J. between 1804 and 1844 as recorded in the Bergen County Clerk's Office at Hackensack. Call Number: GEN 929.374921 B724 Compiled by: Turner, Freda R. Title: Henry County, Georgia, 1821-1894: marriage, colored/freedman record of sales, inventory, and wills Call Number: GEN 929.3758435 T946h WEB ONLINE RESOURCES Ancestry Library Edition Database (Accessible onsite via JPL homepage http://www.jpl.coj.net) This resource contains links to many databases and online records. Resources range from the United States Federal Censuses, war records, immigration Records, vital records, directories, and the list goes on. Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database www.slavevoyages.org This database records the slave trade between 1500s and 1800s. It may be searched using several variables within the database, such as trips made, ship names, ports arrived, and slave information. It may be somewhat difficult to trace your personal slave heritage with this source. The reason being is that African names are used prior to the captives being given slave names. AfriGeneas www.afrigeneas.com "AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats." Documenting the American South www.docsouth.unc.edu This website uses a variety of formats to provide access to documents, such as books, diaries, posters, artifacts, and interviews regarding life in the South. From an African American perspective, it contains various types of information, such as narratives, church records, and so on. Lowcountry Africana www.lowcountryafricana.net This site is sponsored by the Magnolia Plantation Foundation of Charleston, South Carolina. It provides information that documents the family and cultural heritage records of African Americans in the southern states of South Carolina, Georgia and northeastern Florida.