African American Research Materials
in Special Collections
Microform, CD, and Electronic Databases
(Rev. 12 Nov 2007)

The majority of the materials listed here are part of the Julius K. Hunter & Friends African American Research Collection.

• Louisiana Vital Records: Orleans Birth Indices, 1790-1899

• Ballwin Missionary Baptist Cemetery [CD-ROM #27A]
• Father Dickson Cemetery [CD-ROM #27A and microfilm]
• Greenwood Cemetery [CD-ROM #27A]
• Hope Cemetery [CD-ROM #27A]
• Mt. Pleasant Cemetery [CD-ROM #27A]
• Quinette Cemetery [CD-ROM #27A]
• Union Baptist Church Cemetery [CD-ROM #27A]
• Washington Park Cemetery [CD-ROM #27A]

• Arkansas: 1830-1880 and 1900-1930 population schedules; 1850 & 1860 slave schedules; 1880, 1900-1930 Soundex/Miracode;1880 defective, dependent, and delinquent schedules; 1850-1880 mortality schedules; 1850-1870 social statistics; 1850-1880 agricultural schedules; printed indexes for 1820-1870 and 1910 population schedules; 1850 & 1860 slave schedules; 1850-1870 mortality schedules
• Louisiana: 1810-1880 and 1900-1930 population schedules; 1850 & 1860 slave schedules; 1880, 1900-1930 Soundex/Miracode; 1850-1880 defective, dependent, and delinquent schedules; 1850-1880 agricultural schedules; 1850-1880 mortality schedules; printed indexes for 1810-1870 and 1910; 1850 & 1860 slave schedules; 1850 & 1860 mortality schedules; 1890 veterans' schedule
• Mississippi: 1820-1880 and 1900-1930 population schedules; 1850 & 1860 slave schedules; 1880, 1900, 1910-1930 Soundex/Miracode; 1850-1880 agricultural schedules; 1850-1880 mortality schedules; printed indexes for 1810-1870 and 1910; 1850 & 1860 slave schedules; 1850-1860 mortality schedules; 1890 veterans' schedule

• African Americans in the 1870 U. S. Federal Census [CD-ROM #M10]
• African Americans in the 1870 U. S. Census [CD-ROM #165]

• St. Louis Catholic Archdiocesan Parish Records*

• New Orleans, 1861-1935 (miscellaneous years)
• Biloxi, Clarksdale, Columbus, Greenville, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Meridian, and Vicksburg, Mississippi (miscellaneous years)
• Chicago (miscellaneous years)
• Kansas City (miscellaneous years)
• St. Louis (miscellaneous years)

• Arkansas Death Record Index, 1914-1949
• Louisiana Vital Records: State Death Indices, 1900-1949
• Louisiana Vital Records: Orleans Death Indices, 1804-1949
• Mississippi Vital Records: Death Certificate Index, 1912-1943

• Arkansas Divorce Index, 1923-1927; 1934-1939

• African American Genealogy, 1850-1880 [CD-ROM #M22]

• African-American History Online (Subscription database available in Special Collections and at all St. Louis County Library branches. Remote access requires a valid St. Louis County Library card and residence within the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area.)
• Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1699-1860 [CD-ROM #M1]
• WPA Source Material for Mississippi History

• Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939
• Louisiana Vital Records: Orleans Marriage Indices, 1831-1949
• Mississippi Vital Records: (Soundex) Index of Marriages Prior to 1926
• Marriage Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861-1869 - M1875
• Missouri Black Marriages – Post-Civil War marriages where the records were kept either in a separate book, or in a separate section of a book and marked “Colored,” “Negro,” or “African Descent.” Many of these marriages were for former slaves and early ones often list the names of their children.
  • Audrain, 1865–1890
  • Boone, 1865–1882
  • Callaway, 1865–1969
  • Carroll, 1865–1881
  • Cedar, 1865–1978
  • Clay, 1865–1891
  • Cooper, 1865–1866
  • Crawford, 1865–1866
  • Daviess, 1866–1904
  • Franklin, 1866–1875
  • Howard, 1865–1879
  • Jackson, 1865–1882
  • Jefferson, 1867–1879
  • Lincoln, 1865–1901
  • Moniteau, 1865–1891
  • Monroe, 1865–1881
  • Montgomery, 1865–1881
  • Pettis, 1865–1874
  • Polk, 1865–1880
  • Randolph, 1865–1898
  • Saint Francois, 1865–1898
  • Saline, 1865–1870
  • Washington, 1865–1875
     
• Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869: Register of Indentures of Colored Orphans, Register of Marriages of Freedmen, Labor Contracts of Freedmen - M826

• African American Newspapers: The 19^th Century (www.accessible.com)
• St. Louis Argus (African American): 1 Jan 1915 – Dec 1942; Jan 1945 – Dec 1962; 1965 – 1966; 1986 – 1997
• St. Louis Palladium (African American): 10 Jan 1903 – 5 Oct 1907

• Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
  • Marriage Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land 1861-1869 - M1875  Also see sample images.
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - M1900  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - M1901  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870 - M1902  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Missouri, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872 - M1908 
  • Records of the Mississippi Freedmen's Department ("Pre-Bureau Records"), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1865 - M1914 
  • Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869 - M1483  
  • Register of Marriages of Freedmen and Indentures of Colored Orphans: Mississippi - M826, Roll 42 
    Labor Contracts of freedmen: Mississippi - M826, Rolls 43-50 
    (These rolls are from the NARA microfilm set Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869, M826) For more info about this source, see Freedmen's Bureau Online: Mississippi Marriages and the main Freedmen's Bureau Online page.
  • Mississippi Freedman's Bureau Labor Contracts Index [microfiche stored in burgundy fiche cabinet]
• Freedmen's Savings & Trust Co.
  • Indexes of Deposit Ledgers in Branches of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Co, 1865-1874 - M817 
  • Registers of Signatures of Depositors: Branches of the Freedman's Saving & Trust Co, 1865-1874 - M816  
• Southern Claims Commission
  • Barred and Disallowed Case Files of the Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880 - M1407 ( fiche)  
  • Records of the Commissioners of Claims (Southern Claims Commission), 1871-1880 - M87
  • Records of the U.S. House of Representatives: Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880 - P2257 
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880: Alabama - M2062
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880: Georgia - M1658  (fiche)
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871–1880: Virginia – M2094
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871–1880: West Virginia – M1762
  • U.S. Court of Claims Docket Cards for Congressional Case Files, 1884-1937 - M2007

• U. S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana: Inward Bound (1807-1860) and Outward Bound (1812-1860) Slave Manifests
  • An index for the Slave Manifests inward bound to New Orleans from Baltimore and other Maryland ports is on pages 132-639 of Cash for Blood by Ralph Clayton.  [R973.711 C622C]
• State Slavery Statutes
• Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series G only.*

* Finding aid available