Navigating Freedmen’s Bureau Records – Strategies for Research Success

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Arts, Culture, & Literature

Age Group:

Adult
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Are you struggling trying to find your freedmen ancestors prior to 1870? Learn how to get past those brick walls with an introduction to the Freedmen's Bureau record collection. Learn how to identify and locate Freedmen’s Bureau records that support and advance your genealogy research goal in this program by guest speaker Sharon Batiste Gillins. Discover the organization of the Freedmen’s Bureau, its reporting levels, record-keeping practices, and record types in order to develop an effective research strategy. The Descriptive Pamphlet is demonstrated as the indispensable navigational tool to implementing a focused and efficient research plan regardless of the media or platform used to access the records.

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