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African-American Genealogy
Handbooks and Manuals
- Beard, Timothy Field. "Black American Ancestry," pp. 125-34;
"Black Ancestry," pp. 274-88. In How to Find Your Family
Roots. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
- Location: Walter 929.1 B38
- Beasley, Donna. Family Pride: The Complete Guide to Tracing African-American
Genealogy. New York, NY : Macmillan USA, 1997.
- Location: Wilson E185.96 B36 1997
- Blockson, Charles. "Black American Records and Research"
in Ethnic Genealogy: A Research Guide. Edited by Jessie Carney
Smith. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983, pp. 309-363.
- Location: Wilson Reference CS49 .E83 1983
- Blockson, Clarles L. Black Genealogy. Baltimore, Md.: Black
Classic Press, 1991.
- Location: Wilson Reference CS21 .B55x 1991
An excellent guide to the records and resources available to genealogists
and family historians researching African-American families. Includes
a directory of research sources and bibliography.
- Burgen, Michele. "How to Trace Your Family Tree." Ebony
32 (June 1977): 52-54.
- Location: Wilson Periodicals
- Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots: A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the
African American Family Tree. New York: Fireside Book, 2001.
- Location: Wilson E185.96 .B94 2001
- Byers, Paula K. African-American Genealogical Sourcebook. New
York: Gale Research, 1995.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto E185.96 .A444 1995
- Johnson, Anne, and Adam Merton Cooper. A Student's Guide to African
American Genealogy. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1996.
- Location: Wilson Reference E185.96 .J57 1996
- Rose, James and Alice Eichholz. Black Genesis: An Annotated Bibliography
for Afro-American Genealogical Research. Detroit: Gale Research,
1978.
- Location: Wilson 929.1 R72
- The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Edited by Arlene
Eakle and Johni Cerni.. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Pub. Co., 1984.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto CS42.7 .S68x 1984
- Streets, David H. Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986.
- Location: Wilson quarto E185.96 .S817 1986
- United States. National Archives and Records Service. Guide to
Genealogical Research in the National Archives. Washington, D.C.:
National Archives and Trust Fund Board, 1983.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto CS68 .U54x 1983
Includes a separate section on African-American genealogy.
- Woodtor, Dee. Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American
Genealogy and Historical Identity. New York: Random House, 1999.
- Wilson E185.96 .W69 1999
- Young, Tommie M. Afro-American Genealogy Sourcebook. New York:
Garland Publ, 1987.
- Location: Wilson E185.96 .Y67 1987
Sources
and Guides for African-American Research
- Amistad Research Center. Author and Added Entry Catalog of the
American Missionary Association Archives. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Pub. Corp, 1970.
- Location: Wilson Reference folio BV2360 .A8 A45x 1970
- Beasley, Donna. Family Pride: The Complete Guide to Tracing African-American
Genealogy. New York, NY : Macmillan USA, 1997.
- Location: Wilson E185.96 B36 1997
- Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives.
Debra L. Newman, comp. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records
Service, 1984.
- Location: Wilson Reference E185 .N58x 1984
- Cook, Chris. The Making of Modern Africa: A Guide to Archives.
New York: Facts on File, 1995.
- Location: Wilson Reference DT20 .C66x 1995
- Curtis, Nancy C. Black Heritage Sites: An African American Odyssey
and Finder's Guide. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto E159 .C65 1996
- Dillard, J.L. Black Names. The Hague: Mouton, 1976.
- Location: Wilson 929.4 D581
- A Documentary History of Slavery in North America. Edited by
Willie Lee Rose. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
- Location: Wilson 326.9 D659
- Fisk University. Dictionary Catalog of the Negro Collection of
the Fisk University Library, Nashville, Tennessee. Boston: G.K.
Hall, 1974.
- Location: Wilson Reference folio E185 .F57x 1974
- Gammon, Tim. "The Black Freedmen of the Cherokee Nation."
Negro History Bulletin 40 (July 1977): 732-35.
- Location: Wilson Periodicals
- Hodges, F. Holly, comp. Guide to African-American Manuscripts in
the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society. Richmond: Virginia
Historical Society, 1995.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto E185.93 .V8 V56x 1995
- Harris, Mark. "America's Oldest Interracial Community."
Negro Digest 6 (July 1948): 21-24.
- Location: Wilson Periodicals
- Haley, Alex. "Black History, Oral History and Genealogy."
Oral History Review (1973): 1-25.
- Location: Wilson Periodicals
- Ham, Debra Newman. Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in
the National Archives. Washington, D.C.: National Archives Trust
Fund Board, GSA, 1984.
- Location: Wilson Reference E185 .N58x 1984
- Hardaway, Roger D. A Narrative Bibliography of the African-American
Frontier: Blacks in the Rocky Mountain West, 1535-1912. Lewiston,
NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.
- Location: Wilson Reference E185.925 .H37 1995
- Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia:
including the family histories of more than 80% of those counted as
"all other free persons" in the 1790 and 1800 census.
Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield Co., 1994.
- Location: Wilson E185.96 .H48 1994
- Howard University. Dictionary Catalog of the Jesse E. Moorland
Collection of Negro Life and History, Howard University Library, Washington,
D.C. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1970.
- Location: Wilson Reference folio E185 .H69x 1970
- Johnston, James Hugo. "Documentary Evidence of the Relations
of Negroes and Indians." Journal of Negro History 14 (January
1929): 21-43.
- Location: Wilson Periodicals
- The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986: From the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.
Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, Pub., Inc. 1992.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto E185 .K25x 1992
- Lawson, Sandra M. Generations Past: A Selected List of Sources
for Afro-American Genealogical Research. Washington: Library of
Congress, 1988.
- Location: Wilson Gov Pub (US Docs) LC 1.12/2:Af 8/4
- Library of Congress. The African-American Mosaic: A Library of
Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
Edited by Debra Newman Ham. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993
- Location: Wilson Reference E184.6 .L47x 1993
- List of Free Black Heads of Families in the First Census of the
United States 1790, Special List No. 34. Washington, D.C.: National
Archives and Records Service, 1973.
- Location: Wilson Government Publications Library
- National Archives Conference on Federal Archives as Sources for Research
on Afro-Americans. Afro-American History, Sources for Research.
Edited by Robert L. Clarke. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press,
1981.
- Location: Wilson 026.30181 N213
- Newman, Debra L. Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in
the National Archives. Washington, D.C.: National Archives Trust
Fund Board, General Services Administration, 1984.
- Location: Wilson Reference E185 .N58x 1984
- Peebles, Minnie. "Black Genealogy." North Carolina Historical
Review 55 (April 1978): 164-73.
- Location: Wilson Periodicals
- Potts, Howard E. A Comprehensive Name Index for the American Slave.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
- Wilson Reference quarto E441 .A48x Suppl. 4
- Puckett, Newbell Niles. Black Names in America: Origins and Usage.
Edited by Murray Heller. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975.
- Location: Wilson E185.89 .N3 P82
- Race Relations Information Center. Directory of Afro-American Resources.
Edited by Walter Schatz. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1970.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto E184.7 .R33x 1970
Lists over 2,000 American institutions holding collections of African-American
resources.
- Scarupa, Harriet Jackson. "Black Genealogy." Essence
7 (July 1976): 56.
- Location: Wilson Periodicals
- United States. National Archives and Records Service. Black Studies:
A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington,
D.C.: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1984.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto E185 .U63x 1984
- U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
Project. National Park Services index to more than 230,000 African Americans
who served in the Civil War.
- Location: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
- Woodson, Carter Godwin. Free Negro Heads of Families in the United
States in 1830. Washington, D.C.: The Association for the Study
of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1925.
- Location: Wilson 301.81 W86f
- Woodtor, Dee. Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American
Genealogy and Historical Identity. New York: Random House, 1999.
- Wilson E185.96 .W69 1999
Biographical
Sources
- African American
Women: A Biographical Dictionary.
Edited by Dorothy C. Salem. New York: Garland, 1993.
- Location:
Wilson Reference E185.96 .A45 1993
- Black Biography,
1790-1950: A Cumulative Index. Edited by Randall K. Burkett, Nancy
Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alexandria: Chadwyck-Healey,
1991.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto E185.96 .B505x 1991
- Black Women
in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Edited by Darlene Clark
Hine. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1993.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto E185.86 .B542 1993
- Brignano, Russell
C. Black Americans in Autobiography: An Annotated Bibliography
of Autobiographies and Autobiographical Books Written Since the Civil
War. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1984.
- Location:
Wilson Reference E185.96 .B825x 1984
- Greene, Robert
Ewell. Black Courage, 1775-1783: Documentation of Black Participation
in the American Revolution. Washington: National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, 1984.
- Location:
Wilson E269 .N3 G74 1984
- Manat, G.P. Guide
to Books on Black Americans. New York: Nova Science Publishers,
1995.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto E185 .M36x 1995
- Notable Black
American Women. Edited by Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Gale Research,
1992.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto E185.96 .N68 1992
- On the Trail
of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African Americans in the U.S.
Army, 1866-1917. Compiled and edited by Frank N. Schubert. Wilmington,
Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1995.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto U52 .O5 1995
- Williams, Ethel
L. Biographical Directory of Negro Ministers. Boston: G.K.
Hall, 1975.
- Location:
Wilson Reference BR563 .N4 W5 1975
- Woodtor, Dee. Finding a place called home : a guide to African-American genealogy and
historical identity. New York : Random House, 1999.
- Location: Wilson E185.96 .W69 1999
Newspaper
and Periodical Sources
Go to Current
Newspapers Subscriptions in Wilson Library for a list of what is currently
available; check MNCAT for archival collection.
- Abajian, James de T., comp. Blacks in Selected Newspapers, Censuses
and Other Sources: An Index to Names and Subjects. Boston: G. K.
Hall, 1985.
- Location: Wilson Reference folio E185.96 .A196x 1977 and Suppl.1 v.1-2
An index to names and activities in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- African-American Newspapers [computer file]: 19th century Malvern, PA : Accessible Archives, Inc., 1997-
- Location: Wilson Electronic Text Research Ctr (Non-Circulating) CD-ROM
PN4882.5 .A4
- Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals. Edited by John W. Blassingame
and Mae G. Henderson. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980- 84.
- Location: Wilson Reference E449 .A58x 1980
- Danky, James P., ed. African-American Newspapers and Periodicals:
A National Bibliography
- Location: Wilson Reference auarto PN4882.5 A47x 1998
- Index to Black Newspapers. Wooster, Ohio: Indexing Center,
University Microfilms International, 1977-1986. Continued by Black
Newspapers Index (Wilson Reference quarto AI3 .I46).
- Location: Wilson Reference (Desk) quarto AI3 .I46
- Henritze, Barbara K. Bibliographic Checklist of African American
Newspapers. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1995.
- Location: Wilson Reference quarto PN4882.5 .H46x
- Jacobs, Donald M. Antebellum Black Newspapers: Indices to New York
Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The Rights of All (1829), The Weekly
Advocate (1837), and The Colored American (1837-1841). Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976.
- Location: Wilson Reference E185.5 J33
- North Carolina Central University. School of Library Science. African-American
Materials Project. Newspapers and Periodicals By and About Black People:
Southeastern Library Holdings. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978.
- Location: Wilson Reference E185.5 .N6x 1978
Searching
MNCAT
You can use MNCAT,
the University Libraries' computerized catalog, to search for specific
subjects. The following are some examples of useful subject terms for
genealogists; other examples are found in the Library of Congress Subject
Headings books located in Wilson Reference. For example:
african american
newspapers
african american [religion] e.g., afro-american baptists, afro-american
methodists,
african american pentecostal churches
african american soldiers
african american women--biography
african americans
african americans--bibliography--catalogs
african americans--biography
african americans--genealogy
african americans--history--archival resources
african americans--history--sources
african americans--names
african americans--periodicals
african americans--[state]
amistad (schooner)
biography
biography--indexes
blacks--names
emancipation--united states
freedmen
fugitive slaves
fugitive slaves--united states
fugitive slaves--[state]
genealogy
names, personal--africa
plantation life--[state]
plantations--[state]
reconstruction--[state]
slaveholders--[state]
slavery--southern states
slavery--[state]
slaves
slaves--southern states
slaves--[state]
slaves--united states
slave narrative (do a keyword search for this term)
underground railroad
united states army--african american troops
united states--history--civil war, 1861-1865--african american
united states--history--revolution, 1775-1783--participation, african american
women slaves
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