Genealogy: African American Sites

African Ancestored Genealogy.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.

From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the Works Progress Administration.

Home base for African-American Genealogical Research.

This database from the Illinois State Archives includes approximately 3,400 names found in governmental records involving the servitude and emancipation of Africans and, occasionally, Indians in the French and English eras of colonial Illinois (1722–1790) and African-Americans in the American period of Illinois (1790–1863).

Records relating to the freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation and the U.S. Civil War.

Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname matches from 1870.

Antebellum and Reconstruction Era Research.