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Selected African American Genealogical Resources

Print Resources


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Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots: A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree. Fireside Book, New York, c2001
 

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Byers, Paula. African American Genealogical Sourcebook. Gale Research, New York, c1995.
 

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Braxton-Secret, Jeanette. Guide to Tracing Your African American Civil War Ancestor. Heritage Books, Bowie, MD c1997.

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Fears, Mary L. Jackson. Slave Ancestral Research: It's Something Else. Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1995
 

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Gatewood, Willard B. Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, c1990.


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Greene, Robert Ewell. Black Defenders of America, 1775-1973: A Reference and Pictorial History. Johnson Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1974.
 

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Greene, Robert Ewell. Black Courage, 1775-1783: Documentation of Black Participation in the American Revolution. National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, 1984.
 

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Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. Vintage Books, New York, 1977.
 

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Law, Nova. African-American Genealogy Workbook: Finding Your Roots. Legacy Publishing Company, Birmingham, Alabama, 1994.
 

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Robbins, Coy D. African American Soldiers from Indiana with the Union Army in the Civil War, 1863-1865. C.D. Robbins, Bloomington, Indiana 1989.

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Robbins, Coy D. Black Pioneers in Indiana. Indiana African American Historical and Genealogical Society, Bloomington, Indiana, 1990.

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Robbins, Coy D. Indiana Negro Registers, 1852-1865. Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1994.

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Robbins, Coy D. Source Book: African American Genealogy in Indiana. Indiana African American Historical and Genealogical Society, Bloomington, Indiana, 1989.
 

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Thackery, David T.  Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide. Ancestry, Orem, Utah, c2000.

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Witcher, Curt Bryan. African American Genealogy: A Bibliography and Guide to Sources. Round Tower Books, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2000.

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Woodtor, Dee. Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity. Random House, New York, c1999.
 

Internet Links

Ancestry Library

Online subscription available for use within the Indiana State Library, including: Census records, with some Slave Schedules, Slave Narratives, Afro-Louisiana History & Genealogy, and Freedman's Bank Record.

Microfilm

Microfilm
2nd Floor
Registers of Blacks in the Miami Valley (Ohio): A Name Abstract, 1804-1857.
Microfilm
2nd Floor
Register of Blacks in Ohio Counties, 1804-1861.
Microfilm
2nd Floor
Negro Registers
For the following Indiana counties: Bartholomew 1853-1855, Crawford 1853, Jackson 1853-1854, Jefferson 1853-1860, Jennings 1853-1860, Martin 1853-1860, Orange 1853-1861.
Microfilm
2nd Floor

1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules.
Microfilm
2nd Floor
The Negro in the Military Service of the U.S., 1639-1886.

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