Learn how to get started on a search, where do go for records and documents, or look up directories, vital records, and libraries and archives.

Browse through or join this growing circle of professionals and hobbyists that offer research tools and genealogies on African-American families.

Connect to many helpful resources, including slave records and stories, lynchings, legal complaint books, and African-American genealogy.

Comprehensive list of links to African-American genealogy resources includes Web rings, societies, mailing lists, and publications.

Explore the history, culture, and language of the Gullahs of the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Look up ancestor's surnames by going to the county of their residence and checking the alphabetical index, or submit a surname to the list.

Learn about the best places to find obituaries and how to most successfully use them in researching ones family history and genealogy.

Read some available text taken from this book and published record of a number of Africans that were hired and the years of transaction.