African American Heritage

Discover your unique personal history.

Bring to light your family history through census records, vital records, freedman and slave records, church records, legal records and more.

• Meet the family firsthand with millions of unique primary sources.
• Connect to a community of research experts and mentors.
• Tackle the unique challenges of genealogy resulting from slavery and the changing legal status of African Americans.

Discover the history of you. Start searching today. You never know who you'll run into.

What You Get

• Birth, marriage, co-habitation & death records
• Freedman's Bank records
• Military records
• Slave and free(d) persons of color registers
• AfriGeneas website
• Black Genesis (digital, full-text book)
• Family history books
• and more...

What You Need

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