African-American » Locality Specific

Click on the broken link graphic and fill in the form

• 'News of Interest to Colored Readers,' 1927-1928

  A ten-month column from the Alexandria Gazette written by African-American Estelle Lane about events in her community in Alexandria, Virginia.

• 'St. Landry- Up From Slavery Family' (Louisiana-Southwest)

  Over 100 Southwest Louisiana African American Families; such as (and including variations of names): Arceneaux, Bailey, Belizaire, Berry, Bonhomme, Bonom, Buron, Burohorn, Briscoe, Chapman, Gathe, Goodman, Goodwin, Guidry, Lavine, Lavergne, Lott, Mosley, Parker, Peter, Rice, Rosser, McClain, McClelland, Senegal, Slaughter, Williams and many many more.

• A Community Remembers - African-American Life in Princeton

  New Jersey.

• African American Heritage of Virginia - VFH - Black History

  From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Contains biographical materials & information on significant historical sites throughout Virginia. Useful for anyone interested in the experience of African American people in Virginia & in the contributions African Americans have made to Virginia's history. Searchable by region, theme, era & keyword.

• African American History

  Princeton, New Jersey. From the Princeton Public Library. Includes marriage and death notices.

• African American Research

  Guide for holdings at the Alabama Department of Archives & History.

• African Americans in Des Moines Iowa

  This is a genealogy site with information and pictures as well as the history of African Americans in Des Moines Iowa. There is a surname list. Some surnames are Bueford, Rhone, Wells, Bryson, Fant. The county of focus is Polk county in Iowa.

• African Americans in Missouri

  Resources for African Americans seeking enslaved ancestors in Missouri. The site offers slave schedules, marriage records, black cemetery listing and a slave database of Missouri slave owners. Volunteers transcribe data for a variety of much needed resources.

• African Americans in West Virginia

  Selections from the James Randall Collection at the West Virginia State Archives.

• African-American Families Database

  The AAFD project is hosted by the Central Virginia History Researchers (CVHR), a partnership among local historians, anthropologists, database designers, and community residents. CVHR is developing an on-line database for connecting African-American families to their antebellum roots and tracing patterns of community formation in the post-bellum period.

• African-American Resources

  Missouri. From the St. Louis Public Library.

• African-American Sources for Gibson County, Indiana

• African-Americans in Chester & Delaware Counties

  Pennsylvania.

• African-Americans in Southeastern Ohio

• ALGenWeb: Ethnic Groups: African-American Genealogy and History Sites

• Arkansas Black History Online

• Black Families of Alabama's Black Belt

  History and genealogy of African American families in the Alabama Black Belt counties of Butler, Dallas, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry and Wilcox.

• Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People

• Blacks in Alaska History Project Inc.

• Darlington County SC African American Genealogy

  Source material from Darlington County, South Carolina, for African-American genealogical research, including slave references from deed books and Reconstruction records from the Field Office Records of the Freedmen's Bureau.