Last year’s social uprising encouraged conversations about this country’s history of racism, systemic and systematic oppression of Black people in America with many now wanting to know more about ...

LEHI, Utah & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Ancestry ® spotlights an important, yet often overlooked, part of American history by unveiling the world’s largest digitized and searchable ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [The following is reproduced from the ...

New records from the National Archives, digitized by FamilySearch, that document the lives of former slaves in the years following the Civil War have been released in time for today’s celebration of ...

Update: This article has been corrected to specify that the National Archives was not a part of the release of the records. The original records are the property of the National Archives and Records ...

Tammy Ozier knows the story of how one of her ancestors risked his life to rescue his two sisters from enslavement. She just hopes the tale is true. As the family legend has it, Ozier’s ancestor, ...

In August, Ancestry.com shared 3.5 million-plus Freedmen's Bureau records dating back to 1846. The free search tool has helped Black families learn about their ancestors lives after the Civil War. "It ...

This photo represents the type of findings FamilySearch has to offer. This is a historic photo of an African-American Family from Spartanburg County, South Carolina. This photo depicts a page from the ...

Many years ago, I located my maternal great-great-grandparents, Lucy Hoffman and Ben Hoffman, in census records for Mount Sterling, Ky. They are both listed in the 1870 census, with Lucy listed as ...

Records Description These records consist of volumes and unbound records. The volumes reproduced in this publication were originally arranged by the Freedmen's Bureau by type of record and thereunder ...

Ancestry.com recently announced that it now has on its website the largest digitized and searchable collection of the Freedmen’s Bureau records. More than 3.5 ...

Records documenting the successes and struggles and the ordinary and extraordinary lives of as many as 4 million freed slaves have recently been posted online. And with help from an army of volunteers ...