Talladega County African American Records

African American Genealogy is much more difficult due to the record keeping during the time of the American Civil War.  What I am providing here are the basic sites to aid you in your research.

• National Archives

  • Genealogy Resources at the National Archives

  • African American Research

• Alabama Archives

  • Alabama Historical Commission

  • Alabama Department of Archives and History

• Talladega County African American Cemeteries

• Pine Grove CME Church Cemetery

• 1860 Census Records

• 1860 Slave Census

• 1866 Special Census

• 1866 State Census Colored Population Schedule

• Federal Slave Schedules

  • 1880 Federal Census - Morris

  • 1910 Federal Census - Chandler

• Court Records

  • Hosted at Afrigeneas

    • Marriage Records Index Colored Wilcox County 1873-1877

    • Register of Slaves Brought into Alabama after 16 Jan 1832

• History

  • Alabama Slave Project

  • Sankofa's Slavery Data Collection

  • Stockdale Station

  • Marriages by County

• African American Mailing lists

  • AFRICANAMER-GEN

  • AL-AfricaAmer

  • SLAVEINFO

  • UNDERGROUND-RR

• Military Records

• African-American Civil War Soldiers & Sailors

• African American Books Online

  • Narrative of Lundsford Lane

  • The Fugitive Blacksmith

  • History of Slave Narratives

  • Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point

  • History of the Negro Soldiers in Spanish American War

  • Century of Negro Migration

  • Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18, The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victums

Talladega County