What Are the Freedmen's Bureau Records?
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What Are the Freedmen's Bureau Records?
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After freedom came, for a brief and precious time, someone wrote our names down. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands kept labor contracts, marriage and cohabitation records, ration rolls, letters, and school registers — and in them, people who had been invisible in the old records appear at last as themselves. In this sitting I show you what the Bureau left behind, where it survives today, and how to read it. These records are uneven, scattered, incomplete — the work of overwhelmed clerks in a hard season. But for many seekers, they are the bridge across 1870, and the first time an ancestor is called by name.
Resources for this episode:
- National Archives (free) — archives.gov — Freedmen's Bureau records, Record Group 105.
- FamilySearch (free) — familysearch.org — digitized and searchable Bureau records.
- Smithsonian NMAAHC — nmaahc.si.edu — the Freedmen's Bureau transcription and search project.
- Ancestry (subscription; often free through your public library) — ancestry.com.
- Tip: search by place, not just name — start with the state and the field office that served your ancestor's county, since much of the Bureau's paper isn't name-indexed.
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