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American Ancestors - African American Marriage Records

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).
Freedmen's Bureau Online

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.
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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