Ancestry has announced the addition of the Freedmen’s Bureau and Freedman Bank Records available for free! This is 3.5 million records that is a huge benefit for those researching their African American and poor or indigent white ancestors in the post Civil War era. The Freedmen’s Bureau created numerous records in many subsets from land, bank, school, pension, correspondence and more records. The cool part is that these records are now searchable and hintable on Ancestry.

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TIMING
0:00 Intro
0:15 FREE Freedmen’s Bureau Records
0:25 About the Freedmen’s Bureau Records
0:55 Where to find the Freedmen’s Bureau Records
1:50 Who Is Nicka SewellSmith?
2:47 Interview Start
3:03 The Historical Importance of Freedmen’s Bureau Records
4:18 What are these records? When are they from?
7:19 The First Social Service Program in America
9:01 What else did the Freedmen’s Bureau do?
9:22 What kinds of records are here?
9:52 Ancestry.com’s digitized and searchable Freedmen’s Bureau Records
10:18 Freedmen’s Bureau States of Operation
11:31 Grand totals of records
13:09 Significance of digitizing these records
13:52 Ancestry Name Search and Index
15:38 Are the records hintable?
17:05 Scope of records
17:49 Are there land records?
19:32 Nicka’s Research pt1
25:50 Tip for finding ancestors in the records
26:25 Nicka’s Research pt2
31:51 Timeline of Slaveholders from Nicka’s Research
32:55 The FAN club and cluster research
33:22 Rare records in the collection
35:25 Bureau of Refugees records
37:02 “Neighborly” records
38:37 Education records
40:12 Contraband and Refugee Camps
42:39 Where to find Nicka Smith
43:42 The National Archives Guides
44:48 Where to get these records on Ancestry?
46:41 Handout Info
47:23 Outro

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