African American
Research Materials
in Special
Collections
Microform, CD, and
Electronic Databases
(Rev. 12 Nov 2007)
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BIRTHS
- Louisiana Vital
Records: Orleans Birth Indices,
1790-1899
CEMETERIES IN ST.
LOUIS COUNTY
- 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]
CENSUS
- 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]
CHURCH RECORDS
- St. Louis
Catholic Archdiocesan Parish Records*
CITY DIRECTORIES
- 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)
DEATHS
- 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
DIVORCES
- Arkansas Divorce
Index, 1923-1927; 1934-1939
GENEALOGY, GENERAL
- African American
Genealogy, 1850-1880 [CD-ROM #M22]
HISTORY
- 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
MARRIAGES
- 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, 18651890
- Boone, 18651882
- Callaway, 18651969
- Carroll, 18651881
- Cedar, 18651978
- Clay, 18651891
- Cooper, 18651866
- Crawford, 18651866
- Daviess, 18661904
- Franklin, 18661875
- Howard, 18651879
- Jackson, 18651882
- Jefferson, 18671879
- Lincoln, 18651901
- Moniteau, 18651891
- Monroe, 18651881
- Montgomery, 18651881
- Pettis, 18651874
- Polk, 18651880
- Randolph, 18651898
- Saint Francois, 18651898
- Saline, 18651870
- Washington, 18651875
- 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
MILITARY
- Index to Compiled
Service Records of Volunteer Union
Soldiers who Served with U. S. Colored
Troops - M589
- Compiled Military
Service Records of Volunteer Union
Soldiers Who Served with the U. S.
Colored Troops:
- 55th
Massachusetts Infantry (Colored) -
M1801
- 1st
through 5th United States
Colored Cavalry, 5th
Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored)
Company A, 1st U. S.
Colored Infantry (1 year), 6TH
United States Colored Cavalry - M1817
- Artillery Units -
M1818
- Infantry Units -
M1819
- 2nd -
5th U. S. Colored Infantry
and Miscellaneous Service Cards -
M1820
- Infantry
Organizations, 8 th through
13 th, including the 11
th (new) - M1821
- Infantry
Organizations, 14 th
through 19 th - M1822
- 54th
Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
(Colored) - M1898
Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored
Troops for the State of Missouri, 18631865 M1894 (Online
index)
Documents
Relating to the Military and Naval
Service of Blacks Awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor from the
Civil War to the Spanish American War
- M929
Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who
Served Between 1861 and 1900 T289, Rolls 540579 (These films cover the U.S.
Colored Troops.)
Registers of
Enlistments in the U. S. Army,
1798-1914 [SC has rolls 25-81, which
cover 1855-1914]
NEWSPAPERS
- African American
Newspapers: The 19th
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
POST CIVIL WAR RECORDS
- 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.
- Southern
Claims Commission
SLAVERY
- 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
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