Books
Black Family Research: Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives
Local History/Genealogy/929.1/BLACK
Black Roots: a Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree by Tony Burroughs
Local History/Genealogy/929.1/BURROUGHS,T
Black Genesis : a Resource Book for African-American Genealogy by James M Rose
Local History/Genealogy/929.1/ROSE,J
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors : How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage by Franklin Carter Smith
Local History/Genealogy/929.108996073/SMITH,F
A Bibliography of African American Family History at the Newberry Library by Jack Simpson
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/016.929/SIMPSON,J
Slave Genealogy : a Research Guide With Case Studies by David H Sheets
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/929.1/STREETS,D
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina From the Colonial Period to About 1820 by Paul Heinegg
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/929.308996/HEINEGG,P v. 1
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/929.308996/HEINEGG,P v. 2
Free Black Heads of Household in the New York State Federal Census, 1790-1830 by Alice Eichholz
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/929.3747/EICHHOLZ,A
Index to Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations : Locations, Plantations, Surnames and Collections by Jean L. Cooper
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/929/.375/COOPER,J
Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware : From the Colonial Period to 1810 by Paul Heinegg
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/929.375/HEINEGG,P
Illinois, Madison County, Court Records, 1813-1818 and Indenture Records, 1805-1826 : Register of Slaves, Indentured Servants & Free Persons of Colour by Peggy Lathrop Sapp
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/929.377386/SAPP,P
Free Webinars
Free classes in FamilySearch’s Online Learning Center
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Where Do I Begin? Getting Started with African American Research four part series presented by Lyn Rasmussen
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African American Genealogical Research at the Library of Congress presented by Ahmed Johnson
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Finding the Slave Generation presented by Angela McComas
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Howard Dodson:Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of New York Public Library presented by Howard Dodson
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Roots West: African American History in the Trans Mississippi West presented by Dr. Quintard Taylor
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Tracing Slaveholdings and Slavery in the Family two part series presented by Pam L. Smith
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Using the A. Lincoln Pres. Library's Newspaper Collection to Assist with African American Research presented by Tim Pinnick
Websites and Databases
Chicago Defender newspaper provided by ProQuest Historical Newspapers, an AHML database.
Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722-1863) provided by the Illinois State Archives on the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State’s Cyberdrive website.
U.S., Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874 provided by HeritageQuest, an AHML database.
Genealogical Societies and Other Organizations
Afro-American Genealogy and Historical Society
Afro-American Genealogy and Historical Society of Chicago
Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection at the Woodson Regional branch of the Chicago Public Library