Finding Your African American Ancestors - A Beginner's Guide

Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.

Summary

Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.

Product details

• Authors: David T. Thackery, Thackery David T.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2001
• EAN: 9781630263300
• ISBN: 978-1-63026-330-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Finding Your Ancestors; Finding Your Ancestors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, Reference works, Family history, tracing ancestors, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours