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'News of Interest to Colored Readers,' 1927-1928
A ten-month column from the Alexandria Gazette written by African-American Estelle Lane about events in her community in Alexandria, Virginia.
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'St. Landry- Up From Slavery Family' (Louisiana-Southwest)
Over 100 Southwest Louisiana African American Families; such as (and including variations of names): Arceneaux, Bailey, Belizaire, Berry, Bonhomme, Bonom, Buron, Burohorn, Briscoe, Chapman, Gathe, Goodman, Goodwin, Guidry, Lavine, Lavergne, Lott, Mosley, Parker, Peter, Rice, Rosser, McClain, McClelland, Senegal, Slaughter, Williams and many many more.
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LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson releases a new book for African American research. The book is both a locality guide, with tips on where to look for sources and a
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African American Family History and Genealogy in Lovingston Nelson County Virginia
African American Genealogy and family history. This site is about an intriguing story of an entire county of negro slaves, along with their descendants who are all related by an extensive web of en-tangled marriages dating back to 1740, encompassing a four hundred and seventy one square mile area of central Virginia, located in Lovingston, Nelson, Virginia at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains known as the Piedmont Plateau. Surnames shown on this site are: Allen, Bailey, Beverly, Bolden, Bowling, Braddock, Cabbell, Callen, Cashwell, Christian, Clopton, Coleman, Cottrell,Crocktt, Diggs, Durrett, Early, Edmunds, Ellis, Epps, Essex, Fleming, Ferguson, Garrett, Giles, Gilmore, Horsley, Howard, Hughes, Johnson, Jamieson, Jemison, Jett, Ligon, Loving, Mack, Mayo, Mead, Meade, Meades, Meads, Meredith, Mitchell, Morse, Mosby, Murphy, Napier, Nicholas, Nunnally, Nunery, Oakrum, Page, Payne, Penn, Pinn, Powell, Rose, Sandidge, Shipman, Steptoe, Strange, Taliaferro, Toliver, Tompkins, Thompson, Vanison, Vaughn, Vaughan, Venable, Woodson, Yancy, family lines.
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African American Heritage of Virginia - VFH - Black History
From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Contains biographical materials & information on significant historical sites throughout Virginia. Useful for anyone interested in the experience of African American people in Virginia & in the contributions African Americans have made to Virginia's history. Searchable by region, theme, era & keyword.
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Princeton, New Jersey. From the Princeton Public Library. Includes marriage and death notices.
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African Americans in Des Moines Iowa
This is a genealogy site with information and pictures as well as the history of African Americans in Des Moines Iowa. There is a surname list. Some surnames are Bueford, Rhone, Wells, Bryson, Fant. The county of focus is Polk county in Iowa.
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Resources for African Americans seeking enslaved ancestors in Missouri. The site offers slave schedules, marriage records, black cemetery listing and a slave database of Missouri slave owners. Volunteers transcribe data for a variety of much needed resources.
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African Americans in West Virginia
Selections from the James Randall Collection at the West Virginia State Archives.
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African-American Families Database
The AAFD project is hosted by the Central Virginia History Researchers (CVHR), a partnership among local historians, anthropologists, database designers, and community residents. CVHR is developing an on-line database for connecting African-American families to their antebellum roots and tracing patterns of community formation in the post-bellum period.
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Missouri. From the St. Louis Public Library.
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African-Americans in Chester & Delaware Counties
Pennsylvania.
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Black Founders: The Free Black Community in the Early Republic
Examines the activities of newly-freed African Americans in the North as they struggled to forge organizations and institutions to promote their burgeoning communities and to attain equal rights in the face of slavery and racism.
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Carleton's Loyalist Index and The Book of Negroes
A Select Index to Names of Loyalists and their Associates Contained in the British Headquarters Papers, New York City 1774-1783, The Carleton Papers.
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