African American Genealogy Record Searches

African American Genealogy

While African American genealogy has its own set of challenges, tracing your family from today back to the Civil War when slaves were freed follows the same rules as constructing any family tree - start with yourself to construct a family tree generation by generation. Get started here

African-American Genealogy Search

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Custom Search of African-American genealogy by Ancestor Search

Search free African-American & black family history databases found on the internet. Find transcriptions of census, burial records, obituaries, stories, and much more.

African American Genealogy Research Help

• Overview of African American Research
  The Ancestry.com Wiki has a series of articles about African-American genealogy research. Look in the right column for the related articles.
  
  
• Making a Breakthrough in African American Genealogy
  Free Online African-American Genealogy Class.
  
  
• African-American History
  Expert Advice for African-American genealogy research.

African-American Genealogy Databases

• African-American Cemeteries On-Line
  Transcriptions of African-American cemeteries in the United States, Canada, and Barbados.
  
  
• African American Collections at Ancestry.com
  Start searching the world’s largest online collection of African American and black family history records now. You could find ancestors who served their country in wartime, learn about their homes, their careers and much more.
  
  
• Africana Heritage
  Names & lives of slaves, freed persons and their descendants
  
  
• AfriGeneas
  African Ancestor Genealogy - From Africa to the Americas
  
  
• Black History
  View more than a million free photos and documents from the National Archives found nowhere else on the internet. Slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction & Jim Crow Laws, World Wars, Civil Rights Movement
  
  
• Christine's Genealogy Website
  Search African-American resource files.
  
  
• Large Slaveholders of 1860
  Slaveholder names taken from the 1860 census.
  
  
• Low Country Africana
  The family heritage of African-Americans in the rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and northeastern Florida, home to the Gullah/Geechee culture.
  
  
• USF Africana Heritage Project
  A project by University of South Florida to document the names of former slaves. Over 25,000 historic documents of interest to researchers of African American genealogy and history.