RESEARCH GUIDES

• Researching in Southwest Louisiana
• Hiring a Professional Genealogist
• Searching the Virginia Records of the Freedman's Bureau
• Essential Steps for African American Research
• Researching the Period of Enslavement
• Caribbean Research
• Discussion: Researching Mulatto Ancestors
• NARA Access to Archival Databases System Tips [PDF]
• Lesser Known Records of Slavery
• Introduction to Correspondence of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands [PPT] 
• U.S. Army Correspondence Book-Keeping in the 1860s [PDF]
• Records of Probate for a Typical Slaveholding Estate [PDF]  
• Typical Actions in Probate of a Slaveholding Estate [PDF]

• Goad, Michael Patrick, Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy [PDF]
• Hill, Walter B., Jr., The Ex-Slave Pension Movement: Some Historical and Genealogical Notes 
• Marler, Don C., Louisiana Redbones 
• Paterson, David E., A Brief History of Jefferson and Amanda Cary 
• Paterson, David E., Case Study: Determining Maternity by Correlating Records of Alpheus Beall's  Slaves 
• Paterson, David E., Upson County, Georgia, Barred and Disallowed Case Files of the
  Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1879 [PDF]
• Paterson, David E., Georgia's Slave Population in Legal Records 
• Paterson, David E., The 1850 and 1860 Census, Schedule 2, Slave Inhabitants 
• Paterson, David E., "A Perspective on Indexing Slaves' Names," American Archivist, 64 (Spring/Summer 2001), pp. 132-142. Reprinted by permission of the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. [PDF 6.1 MB]
• Scott, Donald Ogbewii, Camp Spirituals Expose Slave Ancestors' Past 
• Scott, Donald Ogbewii, Family DNA 
• Scott, Donald Ogbewii, Rare Portraits Reflect Black Family’s Legacy 
• Scott, Donald, The Montiers: An American Family's Triumphant Odyssey 
• Scott, Donald, Sr., Tracing Legacy of a Black Civil War Soldier 
• Thomas, Arthur L., Grandma Reno's Story 

DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS

Alabama

• Lucius Funeral Home of Anniston Alabama: 1938-1940 
• Mortality Schedule - Calhoun County, Alabama: 1870 
• Tuskegee Institute Class Rosters: 1905, 1915 
• Selected Slave Conveyance Records from AL, LA and SC 
• Obituaries from The Eagle. Monroe County, Alabama: 1891-1914 [PDF]
• Will of Anthony Morgan Minter, Dallas County, Alabama - 1859

Arkansas

• Little Rock, Arkansas Class Rosters: 1876-1882 

Georgia

• Georgia Slave Bills Of Sale 

Kentucky

• USCT Record of John Scott / Pension Application of Delpha Scott, Green County, KY 

Louisiana

• Inward Slave Manifests, Port of New Orleans: 1818-1860 
• The Louisiana Slave Database and The Louisiana Free Database: 1719-1820 (description)
• Selected Slave Conveyance Records from AL, LA and SC 

Maryland

• Blacks Residing in Baltimore: 1810-1866
• Runaway Slave Ads: Baltimore County, Maryland: 1842-1863

Mississippi

• Colored Marriages, Wilkinson County, Mississippi: 1865-1870 
• Mississippi Marriage Index: 1926 & prior 

New York

• Utica City Directory, People Of Color: 1854

North Carolina

• Enslaved Ancestors Abstracted from Granville County, North Carolina Deed Books: 1746-1864 
• 1860 Federal Census - Slave Schedule, Granville County, North Carolina [PDF]
• Graduates of Mary Potter Academy: 1898-1930 
• Expenditures by Board of County Commissioners of Duplin County for Fiscal Year Ending November 30, 1910 [PDF] NEW
• Duplin County Sheriff Tax Notice, April 1910 [PDF] NEW

Pennsylvania

• Blacks in Centre County, Pennsylvania Slave Records 
• Birth Records for Negroes and Mulattoes, Fayette County, PA: 1788-1820

South Carolina

• Selected Slave Conveyance Records from AL, LA and SC 

Texas

• The Slave Narratives of Texas (Index) 
• Williamson County, Texas Slave Bills of Sale 

Virginia

• Slave & Free Colored Births, Fairfax County, Virginia: 1853 
• Richmond City Directory, Free Colored: 1852

Indian Territory

• Cherokee Freedmen in Indian Territory 

Outside the U.S.

• Bay Islands, Honduras Births/Christenings: 1852-1862 
• Bay Islands, Honduras Marriages: 1858-1880 
• Africans in Acts of the Jamaican Assembly 1760-1810 
• Jamaican Manumissions 1820-1825 

FAMILY HISTORIES

• The Stewart Family of Brunswick County, VA
• Stewart Family Research Database 
• James Frank McKay of Roanoke, VA

chat transcripts

• Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family. 19 May 1998
• Dee Parmer Woodtor on Slave Research. 6 Feb 1999
• Gwen Midlo Hall on African Research in Louisiana. 14 Sep 1999
• Paul Heinegg on Free African Americans. 18 May 2003
• Judy Riffel on Louisiana Research. 11 Jun 2003
• Madeleine Burnside, author of Spirits of the Passage. 16 Dec 2003

IMAGES AND GRAPHICS

• African Bracelet
• African Bracelet

newspaper articles

• Head of Negro School Spins Old Time Tales
• 121 Year Old Former Slave Dies In Mississippi
• History of Slavery In State Is Nearly Completed At Bama
• Mrs. Sarah Fine at 95 Years Recalls Slavery Days
• 100 Years Old She Remembers All
• Louise Fleming Merritt, a 93 year old Negro woman
• Age of Former Slave Who Died Last Week Placed at 105 Years
• Former Slave, 106, And Wife Get New Home
• Rites Today For Ex-Slave Born In 1834
• Former Slave, 110, Dies In N. Carolina
• 111-Year Old Former Slave To Cast First Vote
• James Walter Wilson, 1825-1945
• Death of Oldest Man in the State [125 yrs old]
• Life Among the Lowly: the life of Christopher Brown
• First Burial Ground in Pennsylvania for Negroes