: "African-American Post-Civil War Family Land Certificates
: In 2002, the Heritage Library discovered and acquired the index for
: the original post-Civil War land records for local
: African-Americans. It shows over 2100 Family Land Certificates
: recording the sales of government land to the recently freed
: people in the period 1863 to 1872...."

Another great resource, Denise.
It is easier researching when we recognize and understand what resources are peculiar/specific to each ers on a location by location basis.