Confederate papers relating to citizens include at least a few free people of color who filed claims.

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Naturalization records are important to understand the lives of our ancestors of any ethnicity. In the example, note the three Africans who applied for citizenship.

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Here is another example of the value of court cases in tracing the lives of our ancestors of any ethnic background.

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Church Records!

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Death certificates and cause of death codes!

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Voter registration records contain valuable genealogical information.

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Railroad records - another source to trace your ancestors!

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County Board of Health minutes may provide health information about your ancestors.

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Hospital Records are a great genealogical source.

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The BIRLS database -- veteran benefit records!

Newspapers: What interesting items have you found in newspapers?

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Congressional Hearings: Another valuable source to trace white or African American ancestors.

Tax Records!

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City Directories -- another valuable resource

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Cohabitation Records are valuable records that can be used to trace the lives of African Americans.

Freedmen's Bureau, part 4, Hospital records

Freedmen's Bureau, part 3, labor contracts.

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Freedmen's Bureau, part 2
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The Freedmen's Bureau records.

Some records do contain the names of slaves, including federal census population schedules. When I was researcing Mobile County free people of color for my doctoral dissertation I discovered several slaves listed by name in the 1840 census for the city of Mobile. See my posts for details.

The 1890 census:

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Tip of the day: Legislative Acts
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