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a3 Genealogy

The a3Genealogy - Accurate, Accessible Answers - blog specializes in military, naturalization records, Native American and African American ancestry. The a3Gen blog is penned by Kathleen Brandt, an international genealogy consultant, speaker and writer. a3Gen clients span from Europe, Asia and Africa to the Americas.

African American Genealogy Records on the Internet

A directory of websites to help find some census records, slave manifests, marriage records and more. By Joe Beine.

African American Lives 2

A series on African American family history, genealogy & genetics from PBS.

AfriGeneas ~ African American & African Ancestored Genealogy

Anita Talks Genealogy - Online Radio by Anita Wills | Blog Talk Radio

A show about African American Genealogy and History. The show airs on Blog Talk Radio, Fridays at 9pm (PST).

Black/African Related Resources

Christine's Genealogy Website

A wealth of African-American resources for genealogy as well as Christine's personal research: The RUSSELLs & COBBs of Jackson, Tennessee; the CHARITYs of Surry and Charles City County, Virginia; the ANDERSONs and PERKINS of Shuqualak, Mississippi; and the SIMMONS of Detroit, Michigan.

FamilySearch.org - African American Family History Resources

FindFamilyRoots.com

A genealogy and African American history website. Genealogical information found on Viewer's Families tab.

Genealogy Book Links

Links to more than 10,000 freely available digitized American biographies, genealogies and history books.

Looking 4 Kin Genealogy Links & Chat - African American

Our Black Ancestry

Our mission is to find and make available information and services that help people explore and appreciate African American family history.

Researching Your African American Ancestors

From the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

Slavegenealogy.com - Rebuilding African American History

The African - Native Genealogy Homepage

Celebrating the Estelusti ~ The Freedmen Oklahoma's Black Indians of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations.

The Freedmen's Bureau Online - Black History - American History

Information and records for The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, more commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau. Published transcriptions of the records of the Freedmens Bureau, including Freedmens marriage certificates and reports of outrages against freed slaves.

The Genealogy Center - African American Gateway

The Genealogy Center - Providing genealogical and historical information about Allen County, Indiana, the United States, and beyond.

US African American Griots

Dedicated to assisting all those in pursuit of African American Ancestry and History in the United States and other countries by being a valuable centralized resource repository for African American records of historical proportion such as manumission orders, wills & deeds, census records, slave records, land deeds, narratives, cemetery listings, family histories and vital records.

USF Africana Heritage Project

To rediscover precious records that document the names and lives of former slaves, freedpersons and their descendants, and share those records on this free Internet site.

We are family: Piecing together the past

Online article from the Christian Science Monitor.