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African American Marriage Records (Wayback Machine) Updated
Article by Ruby Coleman.
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Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1815-1869
These records consist of unbound marriage certificates, marriage licenses, monthly reports of marriages and other proofs of marriages. The records are part of the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, part of National Archives Record Group 105 and were compiled from 1861 through 1872. Includes records from the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. NARA publication: M1875: Marriage records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861-1869 and M1913: Records of the field offices for the state of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 (only marriages).
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FamilySearch - United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872 FREE
These records consist of unbound marriage certificates, marriage licenses, monthly reports of marriages and other proofs of marriages.
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FamilySearch Wiki - Virginia Cohabitation Records
The Cohabitation Records, officially titled, "Register of Colored Persons, Augusta County, State of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife," are a record of free African American families living in Virginia immediately after the end of the Civil War. The records were created by the Freedmen's Bureau in an effort to document the marriages of formerly enslaved men and women that were legally recognized by an act of the Virginia Assembly in February 1866.
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Information and records for The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, more commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau. Published transcriptions of the records of the Freedmens Bureau, including Freedmens marriage certificates and reports of outrages against freed slaves.
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NARA | Prologue Magazine | Prologue: Genealogy Notes - Marriage Registers of Freedmen
Fall 1973, Vol. 5, No. 3, Marriage Registers of Freedmen by Elaine C. Everly.
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