Using USCT pension records to restore slave families
Wrapping up Black History Month with a guest post on the blog at Ancestry.com: Restoring Slave Families Using USCT Pension Records.
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Officers of the 9th Louisiana Infantry, African Descent
On April 14, 1863, Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas announced his appointments for officers for the 9th Louisiana Infantry, African Descent. Despite its name, this was a Union regiment. Officered by whites, the enlisted men would be black, and recruited a more »
Linking the Freedmen to the former slaveholder
As a genealogist, archivist, and historical researcher, I know that one of the most difficult tasks for people tracing their Southern African American ancestry is to find generations before 1870. The 1870 Federal census marked the first time that persons more »