27 2016 Presentation at Grand Avenue Community Center, McAlester

Links to David Beal's Presentation

Resource List for Black History Month Presentation 2016

Handout

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AfriGeneas

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Black Genesis

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African American Cemeteries Online

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African American Mosaic at the Library of Congress

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Born in Slavery – Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project 1936-1938

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Documenting the American South – North American Slave Narratives

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African American Records at the National Archives

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Slave Voyages – Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

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Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy

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Digital Library on American Slavery

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Lowcountry Africana

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Texas Runaway Slave Project

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Freedom on the Move

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The African-American Mosaic

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Africana Heritage Project

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African American Research Guide Ancestry.com L

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African American Records on Ancestry.com

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African American Genealogy Record on Familysearch.org

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Freedmen’s Bureau Online

YouTube Videos

Genealogy 101

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Resources for African American Genealogy

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African American Family History: Breaking the 1870 Wall

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African American Research Challenges

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Henry Louis Gates: Genealogy and African American History

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Best Internet Resources for African American Genealogy

Links to Robert O. Pulse Presentation - Handout

Resources you may be interested in

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Card Catalog

Search using Control+F {Find} and then enter the search term

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County All Name Index

List is more up-to-date in Library and contains a lot more information

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Continuing Education

1 Beginning Genealogy

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27 African American Genealogy

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28 Freedmen Research

For Africian Americans there are two types of Freedmen

Slaves held by Americian Indians, and Freeded by the Emancipation Proclamation - January 1, 1863

Slaves freeded by the Emancipation Proclamation - January 1, 1863 {sometimes the ones that used the Freedmans breau Bank} - this case is covered in 27 African American Genealogy

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8 Researching Native American Records

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11 DNA and Genealogy