Listed below are links to tools on this web site that promote successful African American research in sources available in our department.

Some of the tools were designed and produced by department staff and volunteers for specific resources in the extensive holdings of the Julius K. Hunter & Friends African American Research Collection.

• National Archives Descriptive Pamphlets for microfilms in Special Collections
  
  
• Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers  for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865 (NARA Microfilm Publication M1894)
  • Descriptive Pamphlet (This is a National Archives publication made available here in PDF format)
  • Online index 
  • Roll list with frame numbers
  • Sample document 
  • Slide Show about this source
    
• Glossary of Terms for Records of the Field Offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
   
• Guide to U.S. Colored Troops Regimental Designations



• Index to Civil War Slave Compensation Claims
  Extracted from Compiled Service Records of U.S. Colored Troops
   
• "List of Colored Persons" in Wesleyan Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 1847–1868  694k PDF
  This copyrighted material is made available through the courtesy of Gloria Dettleff, compiler.
  
  
• Researching Southern Claims Commission Records
  Includes a wide range of material for these records including a step-by-step guide.