An organization that strives to preserve African-ancestored family history, genealogy, and cultural diversity by teaching research techniques and disseminating information throughout the community.
Also called the Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands, the Bureau was established in 1865 for relief and educational activites. This site can be searched for land and marriage records.
This resource, taken from "Guide to African American Resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives" by Ruth E. Hodge, is a reference guide to resources available at the Pennsylvania State Archives relating to African Americans.
A research center focusing on African-American Genealogy. The center's collection included digitized U.S.C.T. pension files, marriage records and bible records.
North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
Transcripts of manifests prepared by the captains of domestic slave ships providing the gender, age, height, class or race, and place of residence of the slaves transported as well as the name of the shipper or owner.
Many of the writs provide the slave's name, place of residency and name of master. In some instances familial relationships are depicted and particulars are entered about where the slave worked and when he or she was purchased.
An on-line data repository for queries, family histories, and source records as well as being resource center to identify other on-line databases and resources to assist researchers.
The General Register Office is the central repository for records relating to births, stillbirths, adoptions, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths in Ireland.
only Northern Ireland historic registration records are available to search online. The records available are:
birth records over 100 years old
marriage records over 75 years old
death records (including World War II death records) over 50 years old
Rolls of the "Five Civilized Tribes" - Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole Tribes in Oklahoma that were compiled during the years 1898 to 1914.