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Honor Your Ancestor
  • Interview yourself, parents, grandparents, and any mature family member
  • Census records
  • Local / Out of town directories
  • Birth/Death certificates
  • Social Security applications
  • County / Clerk of court
  • Orphan's court
  • Recorder of deeds
  • Assessor
  • 4 Civilized tribes
  • Circuit court
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  • Military records
  • Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Black churches / newspapers
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Beneficial societies
  • Employment records
  • Prison records
  • Alms houses

*****MOST IMPORTANT*****

Learn about African American history and what historical event may have taken place in American history during the time frame you're researching.

Researching Enslavement Period

  • Plantation records

  • Slave schedules

  • National census (archives)

  • Sharecropping records

  • The Colored National Labor Union 1869-1874 (National Archives / Library of Congress)

  • Breeding records

  • Branding records

  • Insurance records

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