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A Partial Listing of Negroes Lynched in the United States Since 1859

From Christine's Genealogy Website.

Access Genealogy - Wallace Roll

The Wallace Roll was created in 1890 due to the citizenship of many ex-slaves (freedmen) being disputed by the Cherokee Tribe. The Wallace Roll helped establish claim for the freedmen for the sharing of the Cherokee lands, and the payments and annuities the Cherokee Tribe was to receive in the future.

African-American Ohio Name Index to 1850

This index includes 836 entries taken from Ohio publications through 1850 including city directories. Each entry includes name, address, city, gender and occupation with book and page citation for researchers.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Southern Claims Commission Master Index, 1871-1880 $

Original source: Gary B. Mills. Southern Loyalists in the Civil War: The Southern Claims Commission. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

FamilySearch - Free Family History and Genealogy Records

Fold3 - African American Records $

Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and African American Genealogical Research

Freedmen of the Frontier

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

Freedmen's Bureau Records

Selected Florida records.

Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview

Article by Elaine C. Everly.

HeritageQuest Online

HeritageQuest Online is not available to individual users. Instead, you can access the collection through many public libraries. Most often, you can use the collection from home by logging in through your library's web site. Check with your local library for details. The collection consists of six core data sets: U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. Genealogy and local history books deliver more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Periodical Source Index (PERSI) is recognized as the most comprehensive index genealogy and local history periodicals. It contains more than 2 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800. Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files help to identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era. Freedman

Institutions of Memory and the Documentation of African Americans in Federal Records

Article by Walter B. Hill, Jr.

Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Guide to the holdings at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Register of Free Blacks Augusta County, Virginia

Register of Free Negroes and Mulattoes in Montgomery County, Virginia

Register of Free Negroes and Mulattoes in The Corporation of Staunton

Register of Negroes and Mulattoes 1853-1860

Jefferson County, Indiana.

Register of Negroes and Mulattoes Montgomery County, IN 1853

Online searchable index.

Registry of Negroes and Mulattos, 1853-54, Vigo County, Indiana

Indiana. Online searchable database from the Indiana Archives and Records Administration.

The Lynching Century

African-Americans who died in racial violence in the United States 1865-1965.
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