• African American Surname Search for Hinds County 

• Black Confederate Pensioners After the Civil War 

• Marriages of Freedmen (African American) Volume I 1863 - 1865

• Ephraim Robson  (Vicksburg's Last Man Club)

• Slave Narratives

• African American Wedding Customs

• African-American Research

Please pay them a visit and contribute anything you can to the available records! Even a link to your own research site might help someone else!

•  Africana Heritage Project.

• African American genealogy

AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry  in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats.
 

• African American Message Board.

• Mississippi African American Griots

Excerpt: West African Griots are historians, storytellers, traditional praise singers and musicians.  Their roles are hereditary and their surnames identify them as Griots.  For example, Toumani Diabate of Mali comes from 70 generations of Griots.  His father, Sidiki Diabate was considered the “King of the Kora” in Guinea, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mali and The Gambia.  When he died, memorials were held in each of these countries, attended by foreign diplomats, government officials and musicians.  The most famous Griot in each of these countries was chosen to preside over the memorials and to celebrate the life of Sidiki Diabate by “singing his praises” and recounting his life story.

• Black roots: a lineage of surprises (article)

• African American Cemeteries Online

Tips from the Pros:
Trace African Americans with Native Americans
from George G. Morgan

During the first half of the nineteenth century in the U.S., African Americans and Native Americans in some places began bonding together because of their shared enemy, the white man. Slaves in the southernmost states fled south to Florida rather than attempt a longer escape to the north, knowing that the Florida wilderness provided a better opportunity to avoid capture and return to their owners. Some came to live with Native Americans in their villages and helped make a living there. In the course of these relationships, a sizeable number were relocated with the Five Civilized Tribes to what now is Oklahoma. By the start of the Civil War, more than 4,000 former slaves lived there. Therefore, don't overlook checking records relating to Native Americans to locate African Americans.
 
 

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