The site contains many useful guides, indexes, and other
resources for African-American genealogists, including several excellent video presentations from the 2006 AAHGS Conference (Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society).
The Africana Heritage Project, sponsored by the Africana Studies
department at the University of South Florida, is dedicated to
rediscovering records of African American history, genealogy and
culture, and offers free access to a searchable archive of slave,
plantation and Freedmen's Bureau records, as well as articles on
black history and culture. Review their
Online Archives They Love, And Why
A website focused on African American genealogy and researching
African ancestry in the Americas in particular and genealogical
research and resources in general. Site includes a extensive
list of genealogy links.
AAHGS strives to preserve African-ancestored family history,
genealogy, and cultural diversity by teaching research techniques
and disseminating information throughout the community.
A nonprofit organization, dedicated to locating, collecting,
preserving and disseminating historical and genealogical
information related to the African American population.
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen.
Dedicated to stimulating greater interest in African-American culture, history, art, archaelogy, anthropology, and genealogy, and to encouraging people of all ethnic backgrounds to search for their own "roots."
The plantation was built in 1848 by Levi Jordan, his family, and the people who worked for them as slaves and, later, as tenant farmers and sharecroppers. This web site attempts to discuss the lives of ALL of these people, and covers a period from 1848 until about 1888-1890.
Strategies for discovering your African American ancestors in various periods of history complied by FamilySearch.org. The guide is available online in HTML or PDF format.
The Root is a daily online magazine that provides thought-provoking
commentary on today's news from a variety of black perspectives.
The site also hosts an interactive genealogical section to trace
one's ancestry.
An illustrated guide that introduces researchers to the main
sources available at The National Archives (U.K.) and elsewhere,
including electoral and tax returns, land grants, colonial
civil servants, the West Indies regiments and the Slave
Compensation Commission.