• Colored Marriages, Wilkinson County, Mississippi: 1865-1870 
• Slave & Free Colored Births, Fairfax County, Virginia: 1853 
• Bay Islands, Honduras Births/Christenings: 1852-1862 
• Bay Islands, Honduras Marriages: 1858-1880 
• Lucius Funeral Home of Anniston Alabama: 1938-1940 
• Mortality Schedule - Calhoun County, Alabama: 1870 
• Mississippi Marriage Index: 1926 & prior 

chat transcripts:

• Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family. 19 May 1998
• Dee Parmer Woodtor on Slave Research. 6 Feb 1999
• Gwen Midlo Hall on African Research in Louisiana. 14 Sep 1999
• Paul Heinegg on Free African Americans. 18 May 2003
• Judy Riffel on Louisiana Research. 11 Jun 2003
• Madeleine Burnside, author of Spirits of the Passage. 16 Dec 2003

• Blacks Residing in Baltimore: 1810-1866
• Richmond City Directory, Free Colored: 1852
• Utica City Directory, People Of Color: 1854

FAMILY HISTORIES:

• The Stewart Family of Brunswick County, VA
• Stewart Family Research Database 
• James Frank McKay of Roanoke, VA

• USCT Record of John Scott / Pension Application of Delpha Scott, Green County, KY 

• African Bracelet [color photo] - 156k
• African Bracelet [color photo] - 167k  

newspaper articles: 

• Head of Negro School Spins Old Time Tales
• 121 Year Old Former Slave Dies In Mississippi
• History of Slavery In State Is Nearly Completed At Bama
• Mrs. Sarah Fine at 95 Years Recalls Slavery Days
• 100 Years Old She Remembers All
• Louise Fleming Merritt, a 93 year old Negro woman
• Age of Former Slave Who Died Last Week Placed at 105 Years
• Former Slave, 106, And Wife Get New Home
• Rites Today For Ex-Slave Born In 1834
• Former Slave, 110, Dies In N. Carolina
• 111-Year Old Former Slave To Cast First Vote
• James Walter Wilson, 1825-1945
• Death of Oldest Man in the State [125 yrs old]
• Life Among the Lowly: the life of Christopher Brown
• First Burial Ground in Pennsylvania for Negroes

research guides:

• Researching in Southwest Louisiana
• Hiring a Professional Genealogist
• Searching the Virginia Records of the Freedman's Bureau
• Essential Steps for African American Research
• Researching the Period of Enslavement
• Caribbean Research
• Discussion: Researching Mulatto Ancestors
• NARA Access to Archival Databases System Tips [PDF 2.0 MB]
• Lesser Known Records of Slavery  
• Introduction to Correspondence of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands [PPT 5.2 MB] 
• U.S. Army Correspondence Book-Keeping in the 1860s [PDF 260K]

RUNAWAY SLAVE ADS: 

• Baltimore County, Maryland: 1842-1863

SCHOOL ROSTERS AND YEARBOOKS:

• Little Rock, Arkansas: 1876-1882 
• Graduates of Mary Potter Academy: 1898-1930 
• Tuskegee Institute Class Rosters: 1905, 1915