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AFRICAN AMERICAN COAL MINER INFORMATION CENTER. Provides brief history of the African American coal-mining experience in America, with identification of associated coal towns and camps, database of individual miners, links to related sites, and listings of related offline material.  

African American Cemeteries Online


African American Links and Resources from Ancestry.Com  A library and tips on getting started in a special web dedicated to links and resources for African American research

African American Periodicals  Including info on the first published AA newspaper in the US. from the Wisconsin Historical Society.  Volumes of the originals of newspapers readable on Adobe Reader which you can download from the site.

African American Registry  provides more  than black history, but important African American dates in history.  Very informative. Including a page where you can plug in your birthday to find interesting historical facts!

African-American Women On-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of African-American women. Includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia.

Africanancestry.com This database contains genetic sequence data on over 60 African populations. An  ancestry testing company has with a comprehensive African database. Also has maps and other resources

The African-Native American History & Genealogy Website

Afrigeneas has a great page for beginning AA Research: African American Genealogy Guide, An Online Interactive Guide for Beginners

The Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County has a great Charcoal Gallery with an online index of photographs! What a great collection of photos!

Afrolumens Central Pennsylvania African American History

American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library   This site has a host of links with a search engine that turns up some rare treasures. Use search words "Slaves" to find autobiographies, writings and papers. A Partial Transcription of Inward Slave Manifests

Before The Needles ..." This page was developed from the data file "Executions in the United States, 1608-1991: The ESPY File", Espy, M. Watt, and John Ortiz Smykla, Principal Investigators. Funded by the National Science Foundation. This dataset represents the most complete list of executions in the United States compiled to date..."

Christine's genealogy website

City Directories  '.City Directories, arguably one of the most over-looked resources by genealogists, have been around since the 1700s.  This web site will attempt to identify all printed, microfilmed, and online directories, and their repositories, for the United States.  This site will answer these questions: does a directory exist for a locality?  If it does, where can it be found?..'

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Websites-African American

Censusdiggins.com Great resource site with lots of links.  Including a Brick Wall Posting area for those hard to find names.  Lots of free resources.

Cinnamon Toast Genealogy   "Genealogy explorer is a huge index of links to genealogy web sites and databases, classified by surname and by region..."

Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute  United Negro College Fund

Freedmen of the Frontier   African American Historical and Genealogical Resource Page of the city of  Ft. Smith Arkansas

Ethnic-African American Lists at Rootsweb

Fayette County Kentucky Links 

Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delware by Paul Heinegg. The entire text of this incredible reading experience is online. The entire text of this incredible reading experience is online!

Genealogy.com

Genealogy Resources for People of Color

Genealogy Today    Genealogy help for newbies, family researchers, genealogists and professionals.

Georgia USGenWeb African-American Resources

Guide to African American Documentary Resources in North Carolina  The Manuscripts Department of the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a long tradition for documenting the history and culture of the American South. Because African Americans have played an integral and leading role in forming that history, records relevant to African-American life and culture constitute a prominent portion of the department's holdings of nearly 14.5 million items."

Historic Court Records   'The information presented by Historic Court Records are primarily extracts of "loose papers" - the paper trail behind Court Order Book entries. Fortunately, it appears that most "loose papers" survived the turmoil of the Civil War even though Fredericksburg changed hands a number of times and was decimated during the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg. The history behind Fredericksburg's "loose papers" is complicated since a number of different courts sat in the Fredericksburg Courthouse over the years and those courts served many jurisdictions, not just Fredericksburg...'

John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation
The Franklin Collection seeks to identify and preserve materials generated by (rather than simply about) people of African descent, and to make these materials widely available for research and teaching.

LARGE SLAVEHOLDERS OF 1860 and AFRICAN AMERICAN SURNAME MATCHES FROM 1870 information on Slaveowners, Featuring the big 16 slave owners. Tom Blake is in the process of transcribing names from the 1870 census and matching slaves with slaveowners.  He says this process is should be complete by May 2002. Also keep checking this site.

Library of Congress
          African-American History and Culture Manuscript Collection

Lists of Freedman Surnames These lists represent the names of freedmen who were adopted through the Dawes Commission, between 1898 and 1916.

Long Island University-CW Post Campus Pages are full of research goldmines and historical information that provides a backdrop for what was happening in history. The following links, plus AA Art Links and more make this a great site for research. A Journey from Slavery to Freedom   African-American Freedom Fighters  African-Americans and the Old West  African-Americans in Motion Pictures  African-Americans in the Sports Arena  African-Americans in the Twentieth Century   African-Americans in the Visual Arts  Lynchings in America  Negro Periodicals: 1827-1960

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center   Howard University

North Carolina Migrations  This site is looking for info on migration. And does have some leads. If you have info you can submit to this site.

North Carolina GenWeb  Digital library. Lots of information with wills estates and histories. Slave listings.

Obiturary searches at Obitcentral.com  These are sites (by city, state) which allow keyword searches for their obituary archives:

Old Photographs of African Americans - Unknown Faces

 Orange County, NC Gen Web  Part of the NC Gen Web. Loads of links and finds

Orange County Census Records Includes Tax lists abstract and info as to where to order film.

Photos of Enslaved Africans

PictureHistory.com

Petunia Press  Home of  MISSING LINKS: A Magazine for Genealogists and 
SOMEBODY'S LINKS: Genealogical Treasures Found.  Lots of interesting info. We found  an article on HALLEY slave records.  

Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South  Charlottesville, VA

Roots Web Mailing Lists

Richmond County, NC Wills and Estates  many of these wills have slaves names.

The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture

Slave Archival Collection submissions on slaves on the International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry® Website. Some entries have photos and brief stories.

Slave Data Collection at Afrigeneas  Slave Manifests and collections submitted by other researchers. You can also send your data.

Slave names abstracted from Richmond Co., North Carolina Will Books 1-4 filed at the Court House in Rockingham, NC

Slave Narratives from the Library of Congress

State Library of North Carolina  Genealogy Research

Television News of the The Civil Rights Era 1950-1970

"The Hands That Rocked The Cradle" - A Brief History of African-Americans and Slavery in the Wheat Community, Roane County, Tennessee by David Neidig copyright 2000

 The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational photographs.

 The 1930 Census info online from the National Archives allows you to search surnames for microfilm numbers.

The OldenTimes.com   Free Historic Listings include Index to Slave Names Mentioned in this collection of 18th-20th century newspapers     

The Valley of The Shadow     Two communities in the American Civil War                                                                         

 Rootsweb.com

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

African American Resources Collection
Images of Battle: Selected Civil War Letters from the Southern Historical Collection
North Carolina: Images and Voices from the Thirties
          North American Slave Narratives
Guide to African American Documentary Resources in North Carolina

The Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project
A database of images from various collections held by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The database contains 1000 images from fourteen different collections pertaining to the theme "The Urban Landscape," and can be searched or browsed.

"Through The Lens of Time"  African American Life through Photos. Incredible!

US Genweb Archives Special Collections Project   "...Special Collections also provides an entry page to scanned out-of-print books on family studies, historical books and various journals permanently stored in the USGenWeb Archives for free access..."

VMW Guided Tours  Specializing in African-American Heritage Tours : Anchored in Hampton, Virginia

Vital Records Search  Information on how to find vital records in the United States.

WebRoots.org Genealogy Foundation. Great Site. You can browse and read.
African American Biographies   Black America-General

 

       

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