Dates to Remember
January 1, 1863
What is the date President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
AAHGS
What is the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society?
What is a FAN (family, associates, neighbors) club?
The organization that preserves the original Freemen's Bureau records.
What is the National Archives and Records Administration?
Used to search the text of scanned books, such as family and local histories.
What is Google Books?
March 3, 1865
When was the freedmen's bureau created?
MAGGI
What is the Midwest African American Genealogy Institute?
A way of charting historical events and dates, often including places.
What is a timeline?
Weekly meeting to focus on Freedmen Bureau record groups
What is Freedmen Bureau Friday?
Provides free access to digitized newspapers dating from 1738 - 2009.
What is Google News Archive?
June 19, 1865
Juneteenth: the date the enslaved in Galveston, Texas learned all slaves were free.
ASALAH
What is the Association for the Study of African American Life and History?
Alphabetical list of adult residents, heads of household, spouses, addresses and occupations.
What are U.S. City Directories?
Documents the overall administration and operation of the Bureau, its education division and the supervision of local offices.
What are Headquarters Records?
Used to take notes, create lists such as family history to-do lists.
What is Google Keep?
1870
What is commonly referred to as "the brick wall" in African-American genealogy research?
SDUSMP
Who are the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage?
Birth, Marriage, divorce, and death records.
What are vital records?
Contains nuptial records of newly liberated African Americans collected from 1861 to 1869
What are Marriage Records?
Used to pinpoint where your ancestors lived, locate churches and cemeteries.
What is Google Maps?
Year in which African men and women landed at Point Comfort.
What is 1619?
SOFAFEA
What is the Society of the First African Families of English America?
To copy a document literally, word for word - with all spelling, grammar, and punctuation copied exactly as found.
What is Transcription?
Organized by state, contain local office reports, letters received and sent, contracts, certificates, registers, censuses, affidavits, and other documents
What are Field Office Records?
Used to translate an old record, read a foreign-language website or email someone who speaks another language.
What is Google Translate?