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• Africa and African American in General
  • Africa ~ from PBS
  • African American Family Histories

  • African American Genealogy Web Ring

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  • The Africana Heritage Project ~ rediscover those valuable records that document the names and lives of slaves, freedpersons, and their descendants

  • AfriGeneas ~ African Ancestored Genealogy

    • Beginners Guide to African American Genealogy

  • American History and Genealogy Project ~ AHGP
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  • The Origins Network ~ web resource for genealogy in the British Isles

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• Adoption, Birth Family and Finding People ~ papers, records, announcements, birth parents; finding people on the internet
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• American Civil War

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  • The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry ~ book by Edward A. Miller, Jr.

  • Black Confederates in the Civil War

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  • The Black Phalanx: African American Soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War ~ book by Joseph T. Wilson
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  • Guide to Tracing Your African American Civil War Ancestor ~ book by Jeannette Braxton-Secret

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  • The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America ~ book by George B. Everton
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  • How to Plan Your African-American Family Reunion ~ book by Krystal Williams

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  • Aboard the Underground Railroad ~ from NPS
  • Afro-American Almanac: African American History Resource

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  • African American Women: Online Archival Collections ~ from Duke University

  • African American World ~ from PBS

  • African Americans: Culture, History, Legacy and Heritage of a Proud People

  • African Americans in the Anti-Imperialist Movement
  • African Americans in History
  • African Americans at World's Fairs and Expositions

  • The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992

  • Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery ~ from PBS
  • American Local History Network ~ ALHN

  • Amistad Research Center: Tulane University

  • Beyond the River: A True Story of the Underground Railroad ~ book by Ann Hagedorn

  • Black Facts Online

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  • Black Populism in the South 1886-1896

  • A Deeper Shade of History: Events and Folks in Black History

  • Emancipation Proclamation 1863

  • Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment ~ book by Michael Vorenberg
  • Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware

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  • From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection

  • Fugitive Slave Act 1850

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  • A Gateway to African American History

  • Gateway to African American History ~ from the U.S. State Department

  • Guide to African American Documentary Resources

  • Historic Resources from Ancestry

  • The History of Jim Crow

  • The History Makers: African American History Archive

  • March on Washington, 1963

  • Moments in Black History

  • Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory ~ book edited by Kenneth S. Greenberg
  • National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

  • The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1850-1950

  • North by South - The African American Great Migration

  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow ~ from PBS

  • Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ~ from the University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • The Underground Railroad from the History Channel

  • The Underground Railroad from National Geographic

  • Yahoo>Directory>Arts>Humanities>History>U.S. History>By Subject>African American

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• Immigration, Emigration and Migration ~ passenger lists, alien registration, passport applications, visa, oaths of allegiance, immigrant aid records, citizenship, naturalization, ships, settlers, pioneers

  • Goin' to Chicago ~ PBS documentary about millions of African Americans moving from the South to North and West

• Irish Genealogy Mine ~ Ireland and Northern Ireland

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  • Court, Land and Probate Records from Ancestry

  • United States Free/Slave Map - 1820

• Languages, Names, Handwriting and Calendars ~ languages, dictionaries, abbreviations, translation, surnames, names, acronyms, genealogical terms, deciphering handwriting, calendars, birthdates, calendar conversion

  • 1,001 African Names: First and Last Names from the African Continent ~ book by Julia Stewart

  • Adjustable Surname Search

  • The African-American Baby Name Book ~ book by Teresa Norman

  • African Names and Naming ~ book by Jonathan Musere

  • Look Up ~ a search-box where users may either search for terms in several resources according to subjects at one time or explore each source separately

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  • African Americans in the Military: A Historic Perspective

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  • African American Recipients of the Medal of Honor: A Biographical Dictionary, Civil War Through Vietnam War ~ book by Charles W. Hanna

  • African American Warriors

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• Native American Genealogy Mine

  • The African-Native American History and Genealogy Page

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  • Freedman of the Five Civilized Tribes, Black Indians

  • Lists of Freedman Surnames ~ adopted through the Dawes Commission 1896-1916

• Printed Material, Biography and Photographic ~ photos, albums, biographies, city directories, county and local histories, encyclopedias, genealogical periodicals, newspapers, trade directories
  • Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity ~ by Stuart Munro-Hay

  • American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

  • Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House ~ Elizabeth Keckley

  • Black Collegian: Profiles of Black Americans You Should Know

  • Black Press USA

  • Confessions of Nat Turner

  • Directories from Ancestry

  • The Face of Slavery and Other Early Images of African Americans ~ from the American Museum of Photography

  • Family and Local Histories
  • Freedom's Journal ~ first African American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States; from the Wisconsin Historical Society

  • Gallery of Greats

  • History of African American Newspapers

  • Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself ~ Harriet Jacobs

  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 ~ Martin Luther King. Jr.

  • North American Slave Narratives

  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth ~ Olive Gilbert

  • Our Nig; or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black, 1859 ~ Harriet Wilson

  • Up From Slavery: An Autobiography ~ Booker T. Washington

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• Scottish Genealogy Mine

• Vital Records: Birth, Death and Marriage ~ announcements, funeral books, memorial cards, tombstones, burial records, perpetual care, funeral homes
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  • USF Africana Heritage Project

  • Death

    • African American Cemeteries Online

    • Alabama African American Obituaries

    • Freedmens Cemetery, Alexandria VA

    • Obituary Daily Times

    • Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial ~ book by Karla F. C. Holloway

    • U.S. Cemetery Address Book
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• Welsh Genealogy Mine

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