AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESEARCH IN UPSON COUNTY

Help Needed! I would like to create a page specific for research in Upson County. Please share with us any documents that you have regarding African-Americans who lived in Upson County. There are multiple sources, i.e. newspaper abstracts, wills, deeds, inventories of estates, which make mention of slaves or freedmen. I need YOUR help!

FIRST STOP! Georgia's Slave Population in Legal Records by David E. Paterson
Newly revised!

Excellent and very, very thorough intro to courthouse records by David Paterson. This especially applies to Upson County, and he gives many examples including names of slaves so you just might be lucky!!

Ex-Slave Marriages to 1876 David E. Paterson has collected the data from the Courthouse book that recorded the issuing of licenses to ex-slaves. Contains former slave owner when available.

Ex-Slave Marriages 1875-1877 David E. Paterson transcribed this data from a bundle of Form A- Marriage Licenses(used from 1875 to 1877). These contain the parent's name, age of bride and groom, etc. Scroll across the screen to read all 63 records. This is an exciting new addition!

Case Study - Determining Maternity David E. Paterson provides some guide lines for determining maternity through available records. He has done a case study on the Alpheus Beall's slaves showing how to apply the data found on various records.

EARLY COUNTY FREEDMAN'S BUREAU Michael Dennis' Letter to the Freemen's Bureau, November 30, 1865 with Introduction by David E. Paterson .

Although this deals with Early County information, it is helpful as a "how to find information in the Freedman's Bureau Files" document, and also provides insights into Plantation Life.
LDS has published Freedman records on CD-Rom. 1-800-537-5971 and asking for item 50120 $6.50. (12 million black Americans.The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company had offices in Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah, Ga. Established through a congressional charter in 1865 to help former slaves with their new financial responsibilities.

Research by David Paterson

Bunkley, John pt 1
Bunkley pt 2
Bunkley pt 3

Miscellaneous Slave Information by David Paterson

Burial Societies

Best Place for Links, Newsletter, Database

You might enjoy exploring some of the other documents in the Afrigeneas library

Placing Your Query

It is helpful to fellow-researchers if you mention that you are looking for an African-American ancestor. This points them in the right direction to share information.

• Place it on THIS UPSON County Query Page
• Place it on the GAGenWeb African American page (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~georgiaafam) which
• Place it on the Afrigeneas Home Page

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Early Church Membership

Civil War

Sheriff's Sales

KEY

F--female
M--male
N--Negro
Mu-mulatto
Wi--will
Mar--marriage record
B--birth record
C--church record
P--plantation record
E--estate record
S--slave
F--freedman

Published Research Resource

"African-American Family Research" Part 1
by Roseanne Hogan, Ph.D.
(Ancestry Magazine, Mar/Apr 1996, Vol. 14, No. 2)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/afamres1.htm 

"African-American Family Research" Part 2
by Roseanne Hogan, Ph.D.
(Ancestry Magazine, Jul/Aug 1996, Vol. 14, No. 4)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/afamres2.htm 
"The Challenge of African American Research" (above)
by Curt B. Witcher, FUGA
(Ancestry Magazine, Sep/Oct 1997, Vol. 15, No. 5)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/enjafam.htm

"The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and African American Genealogical
Research" By Reginald Washington (Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives
and Records Administration Summer 1997, vol. 29, no. 2)
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/freedman.html