JKH Collection | Reference tools for African American genealogy

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The following links lead to African American research in sources available in the History and Genealogy 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.

Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers  for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865 (NARA Microfilm Publication M1894)

Glossary of Terms for Records of the Field Offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

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 

Guide to Researching Southern Claims Commission Records

Guide to African American Genealogy in the History and Genealogy Department (PDF, 53kb)