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Who are your ancestors?<\/h1>\n

As an African American, your pedigree may be one of diverse heritage made up of African, European, Native American or \u201cOther\u201d.<\/p>\n

Genealogy the study of family lineage answers the question of who your ancestors were.<\/p>\n

Free Genealogy Sites<\/h2>\n

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LOCAL<\/span><\/h4>\n
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  1. Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board<\/a>: AZGAB<\/li>\n
  2. Ellis Island<\/a>: immigration records, free indexes and original records, fee to download copies<\/li>\n
  3. Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection<\/a>: vast number of archived US newspapers<\/li>\n
  4. Seventh-day Adventist Obituary Database<\/a>: hundreds of thousands of obituary entries<\/li>\n
  5. Viximus<\/a>: member submitted biographical information<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    NATIONAL<\/span><\/h4>\n
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    1. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System<\/a>: Civil War records from the National Park Service<\/li>\n
    2. Chronicling America<\/a>: giant\u00a0database of archived US newspapers from the Library of Congress<\/li>\n
    3. Daughters of the American Revolution<\/a>: military service records and more<\/li>\n
    4. Free Genealogy Search Engine<\/a>: search hundreds of free genealogy resources at one time on Family History Daily<\/li>\n
    5. Fulton History<\/a>: historical newspapers from the US and Canada<\/li>\n
    6. Geneabloggers<\/a>: massive directory of genealogy-related blogs with a huge amount of free information<\/li>\n
    7. Guild of One-Name Studies<\/a>: extensive surname research site<\/li>\n
    8. Internet Archive<\/a>: a large\u00a0amount of information useful to genealogists, but you\u2019ll need to do some digging<\/li>\n
    9. National Genealogical Society<\/a>: NGS<\/li>\n
    10. NativeWeb Genealogy<\/a>: list of Native American genealogy resources and searchable\u00a0databases<\/li>\n
    11. Open Library<\/a>: good place to find family history books, search for surnames or locations<\/li>\n
    12. Patriot and Grave Index<\/a>: revolutionary war graves registry and patriot index from the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution<\/li>\n
    13. SOVA:Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives<\/a>: Access 25102 descriptions of personal papers and other records<\/li>\n
    14. USGenWeb Project<\/a>: massive free genealogy resource directory by US state and county<\/li>\n
    15. US National Archives<\/a>: official US National Archives site, many free genealogy databases, and resources<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      INTERNATIONAL<\/span><\/h4>\n
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      1. Access Genealogy<\/a>: vast family history directories and more, good Native American resources<\/li>\n
      2. Automated Genealogy<\/a>: indexes of the Canadian census<\/li>\n
      3. British Library, India Office<\/a>: records on\u00a0British and European people in India pre-1950<\/li>\n
      4. Cyndi\u2019s List<\/a>: highly respected directory of free genealogy resources and databases online<\/li>\n
      5. Dead Fred<\/a>: genealogy photo archive<\/li>\n
      6. FamilySearch<\/a>: largest collection of free genealogical records in the world<\/li>\n
      7. Find a Grave<\/a>: locate your ancestors\u00a0in cemeteries across the\u00a0globe<\/li>\n
      8. FreeBMD<\/a>: civil registration index of births, marriages, and deaths for England and Wales<\/li>\n
      9. FreeCEN<\/a>: transcribed census records from the UK<\/li>\n
      10. FreeReg<\/a>:\u00a0baptism, marriage, and burial records from parish registers of the\u00a0UK<\/li>\n
      11. GENUKI<\/a>: reference library of genealogical resources for the UK and Ireland<\/li>\n
      12. German Genealogy Server:<\/a> German\u00a0ancestry research (many sections in German<\/li>\n
      13. Google News Archive<\/a>: millions of archived newspaper pages<\/li>\n
      14. Immigrant Ancestors Project<\/a>:\u00a0emigration registers for locating\u00a0birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries<\/li>\n
      15. Italian Genealogical Group<\/a>: Italian American genealogy resources and databases<\/li>\n
      16. JewishGen<\/a>: Jewish ancestry research<\/li>\n
      17. LitvakSIG<\/a>: Lithuanian-Jewish genealogy databases and resources<\/li>\n
      18. RootsWeb<\/a>: world\u2019s largest genealogy community, huge amount\u00a0of free information<\/li>\n
      19. Sl\u00e4ktdata<\/a>: genealogy records for Sweden (in Swedish)<\/li>\n
      20. The National Archives of Ireland<\/a>: official National Archives of Ireland<\/li>\n
      21. WieWasWie<\/a>: for researching ancestors from the Netherlands (in Dutch)<\/li>\n
      22. WikiTree<\/a>: enormous collaborative family tree<\/li>\n
      23. WorldGenWeb Project<\/a>: genealogy resources by country and region, not to miss<\/li>\n
      24. WorldGenWeb Project<\/a>: genealogy resources by country and region, not to miss<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        VIDEO<\/span><\/h4>\n
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        1. https:\/\/youtu.be\/7BOGsXMD_YM<\/a>: Cousins are Stunned to Learn Their Ancestors Owned Land Pre-Emancipation – From Ancestry\u00ae<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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