Mar 28, 2017 | LCA Main Blog
The estate inventory of John Raven Mathews, filed May 8, 1867, includes a list of more than 170 enslaved people who were freed by the United States government in 1865. Although the enslaved community held by Mathews had been freed two years before Mathews’ death...
Mar 7, 2017 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
In the years between 1865 and 1872, the Freedmen’s Bureau provided inpatient and outpatient medical care to Freedmen and poor whites at hospitals established in the former slaveholding states. The register below, transcribed by Alana Thevenet, records the names...
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 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...
Jan 2, 2014 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
By Toni Carrier no images were found This page contains many photo galleries (we didn’t want to leave anything out!). Please allow a few moments for the galleries to load. The gallery above has 130 pics from this year. Be sure to scroll back up after reading the...
Dec 27, 2013 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
FamilySearch Has Digitized Freedmen’s Bureau Records for South Carolina Social networks are abuzz today with the happy news that FamilySearch has digitized all 106 rolls of the microfilm series Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau...
