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Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide (Finding Your Ancestors)

by David T. Thackery
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Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.

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Book details

Author
David Thackery
Imprint
Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Paperback, Hardcover
Subjects
Reference › Genealogy & Heraldry
Topics
African American genealogy · ancestry research · slavery records · Freedmen's Bureau · federal census records · plantation records · Civil War era · family history
ISBN-13
9780916489908 (Paperback)9781630263300 (Hardcover)

About the author

DAVID T. THACKERY served as curator of the Local and Family History collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago from 1983 until his death in July 1998. His books include Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide, A Bibliography of African American History at the Newberry Library and Afro-American Family History at the Newberry Library: A Research Guide and Bibliography.

Thackery was recognized as a noted African American genealogist who significantly strengthened the Newberry’s African American genealogical holdings. He also co-authored Case Studies in Afro-American Genealogy with Dee Woodtor and published A Light and Uncertain Hold through Kent State University Press.

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