[Michlib-l] New Freedmen's Bureau Database: Free Access via Ancestry.com

[Jim Flury]

All, 

Please see the below article announcing free access to a newly digitized Freedmen's Bureau records database, via Ancestry.com. This should prove to be of great value for African-American genealogical research: 

[ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/ | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/ ] 
[ https://www.ancestry.com/cs/freedmens?o_iid=116301&o_lid=116301&o_sch=Web+Property | https://www.ancestry.com/cs/freedmens?o_iid=116301&o_lid=116301&o_sch=Web+Property ] 

Jim 

Jim Flury 
Technical Services Manager 
The Library Network 
41365 Vincenti Court 
Novi, MI 48375 
248-536-3100, ext 133 
Fax 248-536-3098 
jflury at tln.lib.mi.us 

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