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Fold3 is providing free access to its Black
History Collection of historical and genealogical records for the month of February—Black
History Month in the United States. 

Those records document slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the World Wars and
the Civil Rights Movement. Here’s a sampling of the record sets in the collection

• Court Slave Records for Washington, DC
• South Carolina Estate Inventories and Bills of Sale, 1732–1872
• US Colored Troops Civil War service records
• Southern Claims Commission records
• The Atlanta Constitution newspaper
• WWII “Old Man’s Draft” Registration Cards

Some of the record sets, such as the Southern Claims Commission records (Southerners’
reimbursement claims for property Union troops seized during the Civil War) and WWII
draft cards, also will cover non-African-Americans.

Visit the Fold3.com Black History Collection
home page to see samples of the records and links leading to more information
about each collection.

You’ll need to set up a free registration to access the collections. On the Black
History Collection home page, click on the link in the blue box to get started.

If you’re tracing black ancestors, you’ll find tips and advice in guides at ShopFamilyTree.com,
including:

• A
  Genealogists Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors by Franklin
  Carter Smith and Emily Anne Croom
• Finding
  African-American Ancestors in Newspapers Family Tree University Independent Study
  course
• African-American
  Genealogy Value Pack (combines several of our ancestors research helps for black
  ancestors)

Click
here to see all the African-American genealogy research helps at ShopFamilyTree.com.