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Family History Daily: African American Genealogy: A Guide to Finding your Ancestors online

Anyone who has spent time doing researching African American ancestors can present its own unique set of complications.

Ancestry Family History Learning Hub (Free Resources)

Ancestry Family history resources for beginners and advanced family historians.

Begin Your Genealogy Quest The Research Process

Learn about their family history is embarking on a quest. Just like the journeys of pioneer ancestors, such quests may seem almost impossible or never-ending.

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade

Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.

Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS)

International African American Museum, Charleston

Museum of African-American hisory in Charleston, South Carolina on the site where Gadsden's wharf, the disembarkation point of up of 40% of all American enslaved persons, once stood.

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery,

Recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade.

Slave Voyages

A collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history

Slave Manifests: U.S., Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests, 1790 - 1869

Manifests for slaves arriving in Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama from 1790-1860.

Getting Started with Newspapers in Family History Research

Newspapers are an incredibly rich source of genealogical information and have existed in America since the early eighteenth century.

Chronicling America

Newspapers filtered on African Americans; 299 newspapers as of March 13, 2024

U.S. Newspapers

Discover more than names and dates of your ancestors through the rich genealogical records only found in newspapers.

Family Search Wiki

A list of resources for researching African American ancestors in Florida.

American Origins: Florida, Leon County Enslaved and Enslavers in Inventories and Appraisals, 1853-1865

Database contains names of enslaved persons and enslavers extracted frm digitized images of Leon County, Florida on FamilySearch.org.

Dunn History: A History of Florida Through Black Eyes

Places African Americans in the center of Florida History, from

History in Your Hands

Created and maintained by the Tallahassee – Leon County GIS, History in Your Hands provides access to rare, historical, and primary source materials related to Leon County, FL.

Florida Memory Project

Guide to Black History Collection in the State Archives of Florida

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A community History of Race Relations: Tallahassee and Florida State University

Florida State University's history intertwines with the history of Florida, Leon County, and Tallahassee.This website supports an independent investigation into our community's racial history.

Cyndi's List

A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.

Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems

Join Family Tree Magazine contributor Lisa Louise Cooke for on-demand videos and podcasts, weekly YouTube shows, and how-to guides.

Genealogy Trails

Helps you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for free use of all researchers

Library of Congress

National Archives And Records Administration (NARA)

U. S. Gen Web Project

One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications.

Ancestral Findings

Will Moneymaker founded Ancestral Findings in 1995 and has been assisting researchers for over 25 years to reunite them with their ancestors.

Rootstech by FamilySearch

This top genealogy tech conference has a massive archive of 2,200 free presentations from past conferences, including this year’s event in Salt Lake City.

WorldCat

Find items in libraries near you.

The Legal Genealogist Judy G. Russell

Judy G. Russell, J.D., regularly shares her thoughts on DNA, record access, cemeteries, copyright and more.

ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,400 archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.

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