Material Acceptable for Publication

Manuscripts/Articles:

• African and African American genealogy, cultural traditions, and philosophy;
• Resources and Methods of research in Africa;
• African Writings;
• Colonial Rule of Africa (17th & 18th Century) and African Resistance;
• African Kingdoms;
• Documentation of African Oral Traditions;
• Documentation of African American families;
• Ancestry charts, Family group record sheets, personal family papers;
• Miscellaneous topics of interest to the African ancestored researcher.

Abstracts:

• Census Transcriptions (federal, state, county and city);
• Church Histories and Membership Records (baptism, burials, marriages, and dismissals)
• City Directory Data;
• Court Records (guardianship, intestate estates, wills, inventories, probate, sales, etc.);
• Deeds or Bills of Sale of Slaves;
• Freedmen’s Cohabitation and Marriage Certificates, Bonds, and Licenses;
• Manumission and Freedom Certificates;
• Missionary and Benevolent Society Records;
• Impressment and Indenture Records;
• Military and Pension Records;
• Newspaper Transcriptions;
• Plantation Family Papers Relating to Slaves;
• Tax Lists Naming Free Blacks or Slaves;
• Voter Registration Lists.

This page updated: 15 Aug 2002