2. Important Sources
 Family Bible
 Birth Certificates
 Death Certificates
 Marriages Certificates
 Census Records
 Baptismal records
 Church records
 Obituaries
 Tombstones

3. African Americans in the Census
 1850 census - Arranged by state into free schedules
and slave schedules, both organized by county.
 Slave schedules in 1850 and 1860
 1870 census is the first census that includes names of
all people counted
 1880 census added relationship to head of household

4. Special Census Schedules
 Mortality records for 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 and for five
states in 1885
 In 1890 special census prepared to record persons who
served in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps during
the Ware of the Rebellion
 Schedule 2, the Agricultural Schedules includes free
African-American farmers

5. Freedmen’s Records
 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands, popularly referred to as the Freedmen’s Bureau
 Kept important records as marriages, contracts,
abandoned and confiscated lands and school reports
 Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company
 http://freedmensbureau.com/

6. NC Resources
 American Slave Narratives – From 1936 to 1938, over
3,200 former slave from across the American South.
These are the actual interviews.
 NC ECHO Online access to special collection libraries
in North Carolina
 Digital NC –culture and heritage of NC from across
the state
 Archive Grid - Access to primary source information,
including birth and death records, ship logs, and
cemetery records.

7. More NC Resources
 Sanborn Maps North Carolina – large scale plans of a
city or town. Created to assist fire insurance companies
as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a
property.

8. Native American Genealogy
 The National Archives holds information about
American Indians includes Records of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, pictures school records and allotment
records.
 Index to the Applications Submitted for the Eastern
Cherokee Roll of 1909 (Guion Miller Roll) includes the
names of all persons applying for compensation
arising from the judgment of the United States Court
of Claims

9. Native American Genealogy
 The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw,
Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole
 “Dawes Rolls” also known as Index to the Final Rolls of
Citizens & Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in
Indian Territory(Oklahoma)
 Lists individual who chose to enroll and were approved
for membership in the Five Civilized Tribes.
 Enrollment began in 1896 and ended in 1906

10. Censuses
 U.S. Indian Census Rolls 1885-1940 can be found in
Ancestry Library under featured data collections
mostly western US
 1900 US Census
 1850-1885 Census Mortality Schedules useful for
tracing genetic symptoms and diseases and verifying
and documenting African American, Chinese and
Native American ancestry. African Americans are often
included especially if they are slaves.

11. North Carolina
 Commission on Indian Affairs has resources for Indian
tribes in North Carolina
 State Library of North Carolina Government and
Heritage Library. Offers extensive resources onsite and
online. You can get some materials through
interlibrary loan, through your library.
 Public libraries in North Carolina

12. Resources
 NARA National Archives Native American Heritage
http://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/
 Oklahoma Historical Society
http://www.okhistory.org/research/genealogy
 NARA National Archives Native American Heritage
http://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/
 Oklahoma Historical Society
http://www.okhistory.org/research/genealogy
 African-Native American Genealogy – useful
information for tracing Native American and black
ancestry

13. Resources II
 Archive Grid - Access to primary source information,
including birth and death records, ship logs, and
cemetery records.
 Biography Reference Center More than 450
biographies
 Ncpedia- NCpedia is an online encyclopedia. Its
purpose is to highlight North Carolina's unique
resources, people, and culture to enrich, educate, and
inform.

14. Additional Resources
 Account books
 Baby books
 Citizenship papers
 Employment records
 Farm records
 Health or medical records
 Journals and diaries
 Military files, medals
 School records, yearbooks
diplomas, report cards.etc
 Photograph albums
 Scrapbooks
 Family Bibles
 Heirlooms get history
 Letters
 Memorial Cardes
 Oral traditions
 Social Security Cards