New Website Helps Researchers
Locate Reconstruction-Era Records for African American Genealogy, History
Did you know that the majority of Freedmen's Bureau records
are now digitized and available online for free? Did you know that there are
also digitized images of the records of other institutions that served
newly-freed African Americans during Reconstruction, such as the Freedman’s
Savings and Trust?
Angela Walton-Raji and Toni Carrier have built a new website
called "Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau - An Interactive Research
Guide" (www.mappingthefreedmensbureau.com) to assist researchers in
locating and accessing records of the Freedmen's Bureau, Freedmen's hospitals,
contraband camps and Freedman's Bank branches.
Researchers can use the website's interactive map to learn
which of these services were located near their area of research interest. If
the records are online, the map provides a link to the records that tell the
stories of newly-freed former slaves in the United States. The site also maps
the locations where African Americans who served in the United States Colored
Troops (USCT) fought in battle.
The goal of this mapping project is to provide researchers,
from the professional to the novice, a useful tool to more effectively tell the
family story, the local history and the greater story of the nation during
Reconstruction.
The free website “Mapping the Freedmen’s Bureau – An Interactive Guide” is available at http://www.mappingthefreedmensbureau.com.
The free website “Mapping the Freedmen’s Bureau – An Interactive Guide” is available at http://www.mappingthefreedmensbureau.com.
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