Resources for African-American Genealogy
A good resource, some links need to be updated.
A companion to the PBS documentary with Henry Louis Gates, with a research guide and resource list.
The Library of Congress' black history and culture research guide.
African-Ancestored Mailing Lists
A compilation of mailing lists with instructions on joining each list.
The African—Native American History & Genealogy Web Page
Information on former slaves and free African-Americans who lived in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History exhibit.
Help finding data on African-Americans prior to the 1870 census.
African-American miners and labor unrest.
Black Bostonians and the Civil War
The story of the 54th Massachusetts, the African-American regiment immortalized in the film Glory.
More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of former slaves.
Links and information about the post-Civil War Freedmen’s Bureau records and other resources.
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Search for soldiers’ names and regimental histories, etc. from the Civil War era.
Cyndi’s List: African-American
Hundreds of African-American genealogy links.
Digital Library on American Slavery
This is a searchable database with detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.
The Encyclopædia Britannica Guide to Black History
Articles, film clips, audio recordings, photographs, links, etc.
Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade
A project to reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the slave trade.
The text of Paul Heinegg’s Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware.
Records from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, established in 1865 to aid freed slaves.
African American Genealogy and History for South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Thirteen defining migrations that transformed African America.
The National Archives and Records Administration: African-American Research
NARA resources for researching African-American ancestors.
Resources for finding information on African-American soldiers who joined the Union in the Civil War.
Cooperative project to create the largest online public database of African-American families.