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AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESEARCH in Baldwin County

Please share with us any documents that you have regarding African-Americans who lived in Baldwin County. There are multiple sources, i.e. newspaper abstracts, wills, deeds, inventories of estates, which make mention of slaves or freedmen.

FIRST STOP!
Georgia's Slave Population in Legal Records by David E. Paterson

Excellent and very, very thorough intro to Courthouse Records by David Paterson.
This especially applies to Upson County (but would be helpful for ALL Georgia Counties), and he gives many examples including names of slaves so you just might be lucky!!

ARCHIVES-National

Freedman's Bureau Records at National Archives

BOOKS
Methodist Church Record Books, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1811-1876 Harrington, Hugh
Contains membership rolls of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Milledgeville from 1811-1876, including some slaves and lists of "colored" members.

CHURCHES

CEMETERIES
Baldwin County Cemeteries
Memory Hill Cemetery

CITIZENS

FAMILY HISTORY CENTER RECORDS

LINKS
Best Place for Links, Newsletter, Database
This site should be book marked and explored for all the best, and up-to-date material on African American

Research. Afrigeneas.com

Cindy's List of African American Resources

Association of Professional Genealogists - Nat'l & GA Chapters - Johnette Brooks

National Genealogical Society - Organizational Member

HOLLA at ya ANCESTORS.ORG (nonprofit goal stated on website, bylaws and Article of Incorporation Docs: Baldwin Co. Afri-Amer Hx Research)

QUERIES
Placing Your Query

It is helpful to fellow researchers if you mention that you are looking for an African-American ancestor. This points them in the right direction to share information.

Place it on THIS BALDWIN County Brick Walls.

Published Research Resource

The revised edition of "The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy" (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997) includes a very useful chapter entitled "Tracking African American Family History." Includes types of records and what information you might find there and where to locate them. The Bibliography is also excellent.

"African-American Family Research" Part 1

by Roseanne Hogan, Ph.D.

(Ancestry Magazine, Mar/Apr 1996, Vol. 14, No. 2)

http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/afamres1.htm

"African-American Family Research" Part 2
by Roseanne Hogan, Ph.D.
(Ancestry Magazine, Jul/Aug 1996, Vol. 14, No. 4)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/afamres2.htm
"The Challenge of African American Research" (above)
by Curt B. Witcher, FUGA
(Ancestry Magazine, Sep/Oct 1997, Vol. 15, No. 5)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/enjafam.htm

"The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and African American Genealogical
Research" By Reginald Washington (Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives
and Records Administration Summer 1997, vol. 29, no. 2)
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/freedman.html