List of Free Black Heads of Families in the First Census of the United States, 1790
Author : Debra Newman Ham
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 1973
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
How to Trace Your African-American Roots
Author : Barbara Thompson Howell
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780806520551
Book Description
Explains how to trace the past through public records and discusses the importance of oral history in the African American tradition.
Prologue
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Archives
ISBN :
Book Description
Finding Answers in U.S. Census Records
Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2001-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780916489984
Book Description
Finding Answers in U.S. Census Records is a comprehensive guide to understanding and using U.S. Census records, in particular those of the federal census. Aimed at the general family history audience, this book is especially useful for the beginning to intermediate researcher. Along with a description of the history and structure of the federal census there is a guide to each decennial census. Three appendixes offer a description of major census data providers, major stare and national archives with census collections, and specially designed census extraction forms. Includes a complete index.
Finding Your African American Ancestors
Author : David T. Thackery
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780916489908
Book Description
Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.
Using civilian records for genealogical research in the National Archives Washington, DC, area
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Generations Past
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1988
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Book Description
This book "is a selected list of books in the collections of the Library of Congress compiled primarily for researchers of Afro-American lineages. Included in this bibliography are guidebooks, bibliographies, genealogies, collective biographies, United States local histories, directories, and other works pertaining specifically to Afro-Americans. Emphasis is on books that contain information about lesser-known individuals of the nineteenth century and earlier, although Afro-American business and city directories published through 1959 are listed"--Introd.
Ethnic Genealogy
Author : Jessie Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 1983-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313367132
Book Description
"[This work] will be useful to librarians, to genealogists, and to persons searching American Indian, Asian-American, black American, and Hispanic-American ancestries. . . . Family researchers or librarians will find this comprehensive, user-friendly work invaluable." Reference Books Bulletin
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States: Record groups 1-170
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher :
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Public records
ISBN :
Book Description
Reference Information Paper
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Archives
ISBN :
