May 1, 2016 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Bureau labor contracts were some of the earliest records which listed former slaves with newly-chosen surnames. These records, which predate the 1870 census by several years, can provide clues for breaking through the 1870 Brick Wall by connecting...
May 1, 2016 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Bureau labor contracts were some of the earliest records which listed former slaves with newly-chosen surnames. These records, which predate the 1870 census by several years, can provide clues for breaking through the 1870 Brick Wall by connecting...
Apr 30, 2016 | Freedmens Bureau
Freedmen’s Bureau Rations Lists Rations lists, (aka register of destitutes), are among the richest Freedmen’s Bureau resources for locating ancestors in pre-1870 records. In times of crisis, it is often the very old, the very young and the infirm...
Jan 11, 2016 | SC Ancestors, SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: P.M.C....
Mar 22, 2015 | Freedmens Bureau
FamilySearch has digitized all 106 reels of microfilm of the NARA micropublication Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 (NARA Micropublication M1910). We dare say that there is...
Mar 21, 2015 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
FamilySearch has digitized all 106 microfilm reels in the NARA series Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 (NARA Micropublication M1910). This digital collection is titled...
Mar 20, 2015 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
USCT Bounty Claims and the Information They Contain Above: Announcement of Additional Military Bounties, Charleston Daily News, 12 Nov 1866 1 USCT Bounty Claims Bounties were monetary or material incentives paid for enlisting in the military, or rewards for...
Mar 19, 2015 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
A Rich Find for Georgetown Research The FamilySearch collection South Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau Records, 1865-1872 is the digitized version of Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,...
Mar 19, 2015 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Rations Lists (AKA Register of Destitutes): Lists of Elders By Plantation, Before 1870 Rations lists (sometimes labeled “Register of Destitutes,” “Register of Those to Whom Rations Were Issued,” etc.) are among the richest records in...
Dec 29, 2014 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Source: United States, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Marriage and Divorce Records for Charleston, Strawberry Ferry, Johns Island, and Camden, 1865-1866. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Series Number .F601301, Record Group Number...
