FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Freedmen's Bureau was established by the government in 1865 to provide assistance to free men and women once slavery ended. Many of the remaining documents from that ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Freedmen's Bureau Personnel in Office of the Adjutant General This list provides the names and dates of service of known Adjutant General's Office ...

Millions of previously hard-to-access records on freed enslaved African Americans collected just after the start of the U.S. Civil War will soon be easily searchable online, likely allowing millions ...

This year marks 160 years since that bureau's creation, which makes this a great time to recognize its legacy, its unfulfilled promises, and what we can learn from it all. Although this agency was ...

Professional genealogist Renate Yarborough Sanders will offer a free talk on Exploring Records of the Freedmen’s Bureau at the next general meeting of the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society, ...

The Hosanna School Museum, a former Freedmen’s Bureau school located in Harford County, recently partnered with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to participate ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Freedmen's Bureau Personnel in Louisiana This list provides the names and dates of services of known Freedmen's Bureau personnel at selected ...

Journalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says some freed men and women were given titles to land following the Civil War -- but after President... Reconstruction-era records reveal how formerly enslaved ...

Preservation of the historic Freedmen's Bureau records got a push by Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert, who has promised an "army of scholars" from the school to assist with the effort.

For more than 100 years, the history and heritage of millions of former slaves sat in a dusty warehouse of federal archives. Their names and the dates that marked their lives were recorded on ...

St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church is hosting a workshop and luncheon for anyone who would like to get involved in The Freedmen Bureau Project, or who is interested in Black family history research.

Record Group 105.2 of the Virginia Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands records lists marriage certificates from 1861 to 1869 in Gloucester County. "Thomas Lemon, 25, single, m. Amanda ...