History and Genealogy Resources
- Selected entries from the 1880 census are available for the Madison, Barbour, Orange Courthouse and Gordonsville districts of Orange County, Virginia.
- "Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree" by
Tony Burroughs. Mr. Burroughs was a featured speaker at the 2001 Montpelier Slave Descendants Reunion.
- Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, Edited by Michael Plunkett
- Genealogy in Virginia, information from the Virginia Tourism Office
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
- Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies
- Race and Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South (Charlottesville, Virginia)
- The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs History of education in the South and related sources
- Library of Congress
- Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
- African American Genealogical Society of Northern California provides links to lots of interesting material on a broad range of issues relevant to African-American Genealogy.
- Christian Science Monitor Black History Project is global in scope, but many of the articles are about the U.S.
- West African Research Association
WARA seeks to enhance U.S. and West African scholarship and increase
interest in international affairs among Americans through a reciprocal
program of research exchange between American and West African scholars
- West African Research Center WARC is WARA's overseas office, based in Dakar, Senegal.
- The Freedmen's Bureau Online
provides a great wealth of material, including transcriptions of
various records from the Freedmen's Bureau and information about
current efforts to preserve the original records. From Freedmen's
Bureau Online, you can also reach the Black History Pages and many genealogical websites.
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