African American Ancestors | AHML

	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 Where Do I Begin? Getting Started with African American Research four part series presented by Lyn Rasmussen African American Genealogical Research at the Library of Congress presented by Ahmed Johnson Finding the Slave Generation presented by Angela McComas Howard Dodson:Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of New York Public Library presented by Howard Dodson Roots West: African American History in the Trans Mississippi West presented by Dr. Quintard Taylor Tracing Slaveholdings and Slavery in the Family two part series presented by Pam L. Smith Using the A. Lincoln Pres. Library's Newspaper Collection to Assist with African American Research presented by Tim Pinnick RootsTech General Session 2017: African Heritage and Panel
	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