Roadmaps for Your Journey

• Interview yourself, parents, grandparents and any mature family member


• Census records


• Local / Out of town directories (city directories)


• Birth / Death certificates


• Social security applications


• County / Clerk of Court


• Orphan's court


• Recorder of deeds


• Assessor
  
• 4 Civilized tribes


• Circuit court


• Probate court


• Military records


• Daughters of the American Revolution


• Black churches / newspapers


• Freemen's Bureau


• Beneficial societies


• Employment records


• Prison records


• Alms houses

�

�

�

�

Getting Started

• Mel's Genealogy Site

A Personal Experience

• African! American Genealogy
• African American How To Guide From Family Tree Maker
• The Beginner's Guide
• Genealogy Toolkit
• Family History Centers
• African American Lifelines
• Afro-American Genealogical Research
• Tracing Your African-American Roots
• Research Help
• The Soundex Machine
• Social Security Death Index
• The Handbook of Texas
• AfriGeneas
• Censuslinks on the 'Net
• Christine's Genealogy Website
• Cyndi's List

A huge collection of African American! Resources

• Lest We Forget: Genealogy
• The Present Meets The Past
• RootsWeb
• USGenWeb Project
• Genealogy Software

�

�

�

�

Back To The Top

�

�

Researching Enslavement Period

Key Notes to Remember While Researching This Period

1. Plantation records

   - Slave schedules

   - National census (archives)

2. Sharecropping records

   -The Colored National Labor Union 1869 - 1874

   (National Archives / Library of Congress)

3. Breeding records

   -Branding records

   -Insurance records

�

• Slave Records
• African American Genealogy Resources: Slavery
• Freedmen's Bureau Online
• AfriGeneas-Slave Data Collection
• The American Slave Brig Creole-The Creole Research Center
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
• Amistad America, Inc. - Building the Freedom Schooner
• Documenting the American South - North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920
• Index to Parish Court Slave Emancipation Petitions, 1814-1843, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Back To The Top

�

�

African American History

• African American History
• African American History
Set of Links
• Africa! n American History Bookmarks
• Lest We Forget
• The Walk to Canada - Tracing the Underground Railroad
• Underground Railroad - taking the Train to Freedom
• 
  Hosted by www.Geocities.ws