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The
Names of 1.8 Million Emancipated Slaves Are Now Searchable.
The Freedman’s Bureau Project and FamilySearch allows African Americans to recover their family history in a database
that now includes “the names of nearly 1.8 million men, women and
children” recorded by Freedman’s Bureau workers and entered by
Freedman’s Bureau Project volunteers 150 years later.
This database
will give millions of people descended from both former slaves and
white Civil War refugees the ability to find their ancestors.
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Those of us that have ancestors that lived during the early years of this country and even into the 1800's may have information about slave names that were found in wills of those ancestors. I know I have several here in NJ.
ReplyDeleteIs there a place that I can send these names to add to the database? Finding my family is a wonderful experience. I would like African Americans to be able to find theirs.
sue
Let me know if you find of a place to share this information, my Runyon ancestors in NJ left instructions about slaves in their wills. I also have seen them mentioned in Massachusetts and Connecticut wills.
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