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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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