African American Genealogy Resources

  • Papers relating to crimes committed by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, 1869 - 1879
  • Tombstone Transcriptions, David Gordon Cemetery, Gordonsville, Lowndes County, Alabama
  • Tombstone Transcriptions, Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery, Gordonsville, Lowndes County, Alabama
  • Tombstone Transcriptions, Rudolph Hill Cemetery, Gordonsville, Lowndes County, Alabama
  • The Lynching of Anthony Crawford
  • An Adams County Mississippi Court Record Book
  • African Americans on 1866 Floyd County Virginia Tax Rolls
  • Roll of Emigrants that have been sent to the colony of Liberia, Western Africa, by the American Colonization Society and its auxiliaries, to September, 1843, &c.
  • A Partial Listing of Negroes Lynched in the United States Since 1859
  • District of Columbia Manumission Papers, 1857-1863
  • Free Blacks on Personal Property Tax Rolls for Patrick County Virginia for the years 1851-1863
  • A list of free blacks that appear at the end of Personal Property Tax Rolls for Patrick County, Virginia
  • African Americans Found on the 1866 Personal Property Tax Records for Patrick County Virginia
  • Some Louisiana Slave Sales
  • Inventory and division of the slaves of Benjamin Clarke of Fleming County, Kentucky
  • 1850 Washington DC Mortality Schedule
  • 1929 Census of the Mississippi Choctaw
  • 1860 Noxubee County, Mississippi Slave Census
  • 1850 Surry County, Virginia Slave Census
  • 1850 Lowndes County, Alabama Slave Census

    • African American Genealogy

    Records help re-root family trees

    Comedian Whoopi Goldberg once joked about friends who can trace their ancestors back to 15th century France and England’s Tudor... 

    March 10, 2008 | Read the story »

    Breaking Down ‘Wall Of Slavery’

    Maddy McCoy’s passion for genealogical connections has some extremely personal roots. The Fairfax City resident, who is compiling... 

    March 10, 2008 | Read the story »

    Coloring Tree

    When Gloria Brogdon’s great-grandfather died just after the Civil War, some white folks came to the house in Charlotte County and... 

    March 10, 2008 | Read the story »

    Descendants of slaveholder join to note history

    Deborah Bartley said her family always wondered why she liked sugar so much. Or why she always wanted to spend time near the water.... 

    February 25, 2008 | Read the story »


    General Genealogy

    Avid Genealogy Buff Became Webmaster

    PORT NECHES, TX (PRWEB) June 20, 2005 — Bill Cribbs wasn’t always interested in his family history. Not until he met a... 

    March 18, 2008 | Read the story »

    Cathy’s family secrets

    WHEN Cathy Freeman had “cos I’m free” tattooed on her arm, she meant it as a bold statement about love and identity.... 

    January 13, 2008 | Read the story »


    African American History

    A legacy left unmarked for black Civil War vets

    HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - For more than a century, the bodies of some 300 black soldiers who died in the Civil War have lain in unmarked... 

    March 18, 2008 | Read the story »

    About 200 are believed buried in old African-American graveyard in Mansfield

    Michael Evans stooped over and scratched into the earth as though preparing a future garden instead of tending to the past.Ripping... 

    March 10, 2008 | Read the story »

    McWorter memorialized at presidential library

    A life-size bronze bust of a former slave who founded a west-central Illinois town was donated by his descendants Thursday to the Abraham... 

    March 10, 2008 | Read the story »


    American and World History

    New Exhibit Profiles Ontario’s Early Black History

    TORONTO and DRESDEN, ON, Dec. 13 /CNW/ - A traveling exhibit called Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada will leave a lasting legacy... 

    December 14, 2007 | Read the story »