Live: Beginning African American Genealogy

Daniel Sample, manager of FBCL's Genealogy and Local History department, will discuss many of the resources that are available to family-history researchers, with special focus on tools to help individuals who are researching African-American family histories. Get tips on how to extend family-history research into the years before the American Civil War took place.

Learn about the “Freedman’s Bureau Records” database, which contains records from 1865-1871, along with the closely-associated Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company’s registers of signatures of depositors. This resource can contain information such as the names of depositors, names of employers and plantations, names of family members, and place of birth.

Sample will also talk about items that are available on microfilm, print resources, and other online resources, such as Heritage Quest and the Ancestry.com database.

This will be a live-streamed event on Webex. Registration required. Look for the Webex link in your email at least an hour before the event.