Genealogy and Local History Resources

Free record search of censuses and records from Ancestry.com

FamilySearch.org has this guide of African American resources

Enslaved.org is a discovery hub that helps users to search and find information from a large and growing number of datasets and digital projects focused on the historical slave trade

The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience.

Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

10 Million Names is dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated ten million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America (specifically, the territory that would become the United States) between the 1500s and 1865.

DLAS houses tens of thousands of records relating to all 15 slave states and Washington, D.C. as well as a number of northern states.

Features primary source material by, from, and about the African American community spanning the colonial era of the Americas through the 20th Century.

Has records of the largest slave trades in history