Projects and Interest Areas

New and Ongoing Projects

PROJECT	COORDINATOR	LOCATION
Slave Ship Manifests Database Volunteers to help with the transcription of the Inward Slave Manifests 1818-1860 for the Port of New Orleans. Volunteers: Carlos Keith	Dee Parmer Woodtor	AfriGeneas
Slave Data Collection Volunteers needed to extract and transcribe slave data from various sources and to re-format donated records. Volunteers: Edward Adams, Marcia Shephard, Joan N. Banks, Teresa Cottrell, Dada Williams, , Tremaine Eppenger, Esther Stewart, Michael S. Gillis	Valencia King Nelson	AfriGeneas
Surnames Database	Anita Willis	AfriGeneas
Census Transcriptions Volunteers are being recruited for a two-part effort. Those interested in transcribing the Federal Census for any locale, in particular the 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules, are asked to volunteer for the USGenWeb Census Project. Those who are interested in transcribing State or Local censuses, tax lists, or in abstracting census data for a particular surname or extracting names of African Americans from any census can contribute them to the African American Census Schedules Online website. Anyone interested in doing any census transcriptions are asked to contact the coordinator first. Volunteers: Regina B. Summerville	B.J. Smothers	Affiliated Site
African American Cemeteries Online Volunteers needed to help with the planning and management of this ongoing project as well as the transcription of cemetery listings. Volunteers: Gilson Westbrook	B.J. Smothers	Affiliated Site
The AfriGeneas Library Librarian and volunteers needed to collect and organize articles and papers for inclusion in this ftp library.	Valencia King Nelson	AfriGeneas
Funeral Programs and Obituaries Obituaries, death notices, funeral home records and funeral programs.	Don Goodwin
Runaway Slave Ads	Brain Carroll Researcher: Louis Diggs
City Directories	Researcher: Louis Diggs
School Records Class rosters, alumni lists, teacher's diaries, minutes and yearbooks.	Wayne Wheeler
Propose or volunteer for a project or submit your existing site. There can be more than one site per category. Volunteer today!	Your name	Affiliated Site

Proposed Projects and Areas of Interest

PROJECT	COORDINATOR	STATUS
Church Records and Histories Marriages, baptisms, burials, rosters, lists, histories, programs, and minister's dairies. Volunteers: Inez Fakir	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Family Reunions Volunteers needed for the planning and organization phase of this project. Volunteers: Denise Porter-Ross, Velda Lowry, Bettye Davis Rambo	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Freedmens Bureau Records Volunteers: Henri Carol Jones	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Immigration and Naturalization Records Passenger ship lists or indexes, passports, visas, and naturalization records and indexes.	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Military Records and History Pension, service, and muster records and regimental histories.	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Vital Records Births, deaths, and marriages.	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Deeds and Land Records Deeds, deed abstracts, land transfers and indexes.	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Institutional Records and Histories Local, State, and Federal jails, orphanages, hospitals, homes, mental institutions, etc.	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Wills and Probate Records Wills, estate records, inventories, guardianships, orphan court records.	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Directories, Tax and Voter Lists City, county and business directories, real and personal tax lists, lists of voters, poll taxes, candidate slates, etc.	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Court Records Court records that don't fit into other caregories: divorce, jury lists, name changes, legislative acts, etc.	Alva Griffith	Volunteers Needed
Propose or volunteer for a project or submit your existing site. There can be more than one site per category. Volunteer today!	Your name	Affiliated Site

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of African American genealogical material for the 21st century"