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Freedmen's Bureau Project (Church-produced): Web archive

Collected by: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Archived since: Mar, 2016

Description:

Web-published content relating to the Freedmen's Bureau, also known as Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land, an agency of the War Department was established in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining fair treatment, relief, land, jobs, and education, in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). The Freedmen’s Bureau Project is a joint effort between the FamilySearch web site, the Smithsonian, and several African-American groups, to digitize the Bureau’s millions of handwritten documents and make them available on the internet.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Society & Culture National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington D.C.) United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Slavery FamilySearch (Church web site)

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Title: Juneteenth: Discover Your Roots Using Freedmen’s Bureau Records — FamilySearch.org

URL: http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/

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Title: The Freedmen’s Bureau Project: Success Stories Are Possible

URL: https://familysearch.org/blog/en/freedmens-bureau-project-success-stories/

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Title: African American Freedmen's Bureau Records Genealogy - FamilySearch Wiki

URL: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/African_American_Freedmen's_Bureau_Records

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Title: African American Freedmen's Bureau Records Genealogy - FamilySearch Wiki

URL: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/African_American_Freedmen's_Bureau_Records#Discover_Freedmen_Project

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Title: African American Accesses Ancestral Records Thanks to Freedmen’s Bureau Initiative - Church News and Events

URL: https://www.lds.org/church/news/african-american-accesses-ancestral-records-thanks-to-freedmens-bureau-initiative?lang=eng

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Title: Completed Freedmen’s Bureau Project Indexed Nearly 2 Million Records of Freed Slaves - Church News and Events

URL: https://www.lds.org/church/news/completed-freedmens-bureau-project-indexed-nearly-2-million-records-of-freed-slaves?lang=eng

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