Freedmen and Colored Marriage Records, 1865-1890, Sumter County, Alabama

Freedmen and Colored Marriage Records, 1865-1890, Sumter County, Alabama

Author: Gwendolyn Lynette Hester

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9780788404436

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Containing over 6,000 marriage records, this book is a valuable tool to the Sumter County researcher who is examining Black genealogy. These are some of the earliest records in existence of the county's freedmen and freedwomen, and the first complete list


The 1996 Genealogy Annual

The 1996 Genealogy Annual

Author: Thomas Jay Kemp

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1997-12

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780842027403

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The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main sections.p liFAMILY HISTORIES-/licites American and international single and multifamily genealogies, listed alphabetically by major surnames included in each book.p liGUIDES AND HANDBOOKS-/liincludes reference and how-to books for doing research on specific record groups or areas of the U.S. or the world.p liGENEALOGICAL SOURCES BY STATE-/liconsists of entries for genealogical data, organized alphabetically by state and then by city or county.p The Genealogy Annual, the core reference book of published local histories and genealogies, makes finding the latest information easy. Because the information is compiled annually, it is always up to date. No other book offers as many citations as The Genealogy Annual; all works are included. You can be assured that fees were not required to be listed.


Black Genesis

Black Genesis

Author: James M. Rose

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780806317359

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Designed with both the novice and the professional researcher in mind, this text provides reference resources and introduces a methodology specific to investigating African-American genealogy. In the second edition, information has been reorganized by state. Within each state are listings for resources such as state archives, census records, military records, newspapers, and manuscript collections.


Hidden Sources

Hidden Sources

Author: Laura Szucs Pfeiffer

Publisher: Ancestry Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Family history researchers are accustomed to searching among vital records, censuses, and other commonly used sources. But there are any number of more-obscure sources that can lead researchers to vital information, and Obscure Sources: Great Clues in Hidden Places will introduce you to them. Bankruptcy records, special censuses, employment records, and coroners' records are only a few of the kinds of records you can turn to when other sources prove unfruitful. Obscure Sources is an overview of a large number of sources that are often overlooked. It discusses where these records can be found, offers some options for locating these records through the Internet, and provides a selected bibliography of background information and methodology.


A History of the Freedmen's Bureau

A History of the Freedmen's Bureau

Author: George R. Bentley

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1512814334

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.


Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

Author: Walter Lynwood Fleming

Publisher: New York : Smith

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 876

ISBN-13:

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Describes the society and the institutions that went down during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the internal conditions of Alabama during the war. Emphasizes the social and economic problems in the general situation, as well as the educational, religious, and industrial aspects of the period.