Researching African American Genealogy: Additional Sources
Newspapers
- African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century This link opens in a new windowScans of African-American newspapers from the 19th century, including statistics, biographies, essays, poetry, advertisements, and other cultural artifacts.
- Historical African American Newspapers Available Online A guide to African American NewspapersResearch Guide from Elizabeth Clarke at Marist College.
Films and Microfilm Collections
- African-American Lives [electronic resource (video)] : Searching for Our NamesPublication Date: 2005
- African-American Lives 2 [electronic resource (video)] : The Past Is Another Country byPublication Date: 2008
- Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration (microfilm)Online guide accessible.
Books
- Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810 byCall Number: E185.96 .H46 2000ISBN: 0806350423Publication Date: 2000
- Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to about 1820 byCall Number: E185.96 .H48 2005 v.1-2ISBN: 0806352817Publication Date: 2005
- Somebody knows my name : marriages of freed people in North Carolina county by county. byCall Number: E185.96 .W53 1995 v.1-3Publication Date: 1995
Help Me to Find My People by Call Number: E443 .W63 2012ISBN: 9780807835548Publication Date: 2012
Slave Genealogy by Call Number: E185.96 .S817 1986ISBN: 0917890639Publication Date: 2008
Finding Oprah's Roots by Call Number: E185.96 .G383 2007ISBN: 9780307382382Publication Date: 2007- Black Genealogy byCall Number: CS21 .B55 1991ISBN: 0933121539Publication Date: 1991
In Search of Our Roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past. by Call Number: E185.96 .G384 2009ISBN: 9780307382405Publication Date: 2009
African American National Biography by Call Number: E185.96 .A4466 2008 v. 1-8ISBN: 9780195160192Publication Date: 2008
Slave Ancestral Research by Call Number: E185.96 .F43 1995ISBN: 0788402005Publication Date: 1995
Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors by ISBN: 1558706054Publication Date: 2002
Finding Your African American Ancestors by ISBN: 0916489906Publication Date: 2001
Subject Guide
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