ProQuest has just added significant new content to African American Heritage, their digital product devoted to African American family history research. The new content — marriage and cohabitation records and registers of slaves and free persons of color that date from the early 1800’s – makes digitally accessible some of the earliest official records of Africans in the U.S. Heretofore detailed research has been hindered because African American records were rarely included in federal censuses before 1870. This new material should enable African Americans to more easily trace their ancestry.
The records just added to African American Heritage include Marriage Records from Brooke County, West Virginia (1909-1937). North Carolina Cohabitation Records (1820-1868), the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana Registers of Slaves and Free Persons of Color from a variety of counties (1780-1864), and U.S. Colored Troop Records (1861-1865).
Interested? You can try it for free until August 27, 2010 — just click this link.
To get detailed pricing information and to order, get in touch with your ProQuest account rep.
Enjoy! and more as it happens,
Cheryl
