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The categories of films are listed in alphabetical order. When a number follows a film description, it is the National Archives microfilm publication number.

Cemetery Information

• Father Dickson Cemetery Burial Books, 1903-1983 (This 13-acre cemetery, founded in 1903, served African Americans in the towns of Webster Groves and Kirkwood in St. Louis County, Missouri.)
• Washington Park Cemetery
  (Films include listings by alphabetical order, then by section and lot number.)

Census

• Arkansas:  
  • population schedules, 1830-1880, and 1900-1930slave schedules, 1850 & 1860Soundex/Miracode for 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930agricultural schedules, 1850-1880defective, dependent and delinquent schedules, 1880mortality schedules, 1850-1880
  • social statistics, 1850-1870
• Louisiana: 
• population schedules, 1810-1880, and 1900-1930slave schedules, 1850-1860Soundex/Miracode, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930agricultural schedules, 1850-1880defective, dependent and delinquent schedules, 1880mortality schedules and indexes, 1850-1880
• Veteran's schedule, 1890
• Mississippi:  
  • population schedules, 1820-1880, and 1900-1930slave schedules, 1850 & 1860Soundex, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930agricultural schedules, 1850-1880mortality schedules, 1850-1880
  • Veteran's schedule, 1890

City Directories (See complete listing for years available.)

• Louisiana: New Orleans 
• Mississippi: Biloxi, Clarksdale, Columbus, Greenville, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg

Civilian World War I Draft Registration Cards

• Arkansas
• Louisiana
• Mississippi

County Information

• Miss., WPA Source Material for Mississippi History  
  Counties of Adams, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Holmes, Humphrey's, & Panola

Marriage

• Marriage Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 1861-1869 - M1875  Also see sample images.
• Mississippi (Soundex) Index to Marriages prior to 1926 - Set Z11  
• Mississippi (Soundex) Index to Marriages prior to 1926 (White Persons) - Set Z12  
  [Note: If you don't find your person in one of these sets, regardless of race, check the other set.]

Military

• Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925–1941 – M1916
• Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With U.S. Colored Troops - M589
• Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the U.S. Colored Troops (Civil War) : 
  • Artillery
    • Artillery Organizations - M1818 
  • Cavalry
    • 1st through 5th U. S. Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th U. S. Colored Cavalry - M1817
  • Infantry
    • 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored) - M1898 
    • 55th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored) - M1801
    • 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Colored) Company A, 1st U.S. Colored Infantry (1 Year) - M1819
    • 2nd-7th U.S. Colored Infantry including the 3rd Tennessee Volunteers (African Descent), 6th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), 7th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), and Miscellaneous Service Cards  - M1820
    • Infantry Organizations, 8th through 13th, including the 11th (new) - M1821  
    • Infantry Organizations, 14th through 19th - M1822
      (The Index to Civil War Slave Compensation Claims is based on the service records of USCT soldiers whose former owners, usually from a border state, filed a compensation claim for their lost services.)
• Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865  -  M1894    (Online index) 
• Documents Relating to the Military and Naval Service of Blacks Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor From the Civil War to the Spanish American War - M929
• Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900 - T289, Rolls 540-579 (These films cover the U.S. Colored Troops.)
• Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914 - M233  (SC has rolls 25-81 covering 1855-1914) 

Newspapers

The following historical newspapers on microfilm are available on Tier 4 of St. Louis County Library Headquarters.

• St. Louis Argus: 1 Jan 1915 – 13 Dec 1918; 21 Feb 1919 – 1920; Jan 1945 – Dec 1954
• St. Louis Palladium: 10 Jan 1903 - 5 Oct 1907

Plantation Records

• Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series G. Part 5. (Includes Natchez Trace Collection - Other Plantation Collections)  

Post-Civil War Records

• Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
  • Marriage Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land 1861-1869 - M1875  Also see sample images.
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - M1900  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - M1901  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870 - M1902  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870 - M1905 
  • Records of the Field Offices for the States of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - M1906 
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - M1907
  • Records of the Mississippi Freedmen's Department ("Pre-Bureau Records"), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1865 - M1914 
  • Register of Marriages of Freedmen and Indentures of Colored Orphans: Mississippi - M826, Roll 42
  • Labor Contracts of freedmen: Mississippi - M826, Rolls 43-50 
    (These rolls are from the NARA microfilm set Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869, M826) For more info about this source, see Freedmen's Bureau Online: Mississippi Marriages and the main Freedmen's Bureau Online page. Mississippi Freedman's Bureau Labor Contracts Index is available in microfiche stored in burgundy fiche cabinet.
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Missouri, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872 - M1908 
  • Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869 - M1483  
  • Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869 - M999 (SC has Roll 25 only)
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - M1911

• Freedmen's Savings & Trust Co.
  • Indexes of Deposit Ledgers in Branches of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Co, 1865-1874 - M817 
  • Registers of Signatures of Depositors: Branches of the Freedman's Saving & Trust Co, 1865-1874 - M816  
• Southern Claims Commission
  • Barred and Disallowed Case Files of the Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880 - M1407 ( fiche)  
  • Records of the Commissioners of Claims (Southern Claims Commission), 1871-1880 - M87
  • Records of the U.S. House of Representatives: Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880 - P2257 
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880: Alabama - M2062
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880: Georgia - M1658  (fiche)
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871–1880: Virginia - M2094
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871–1880: West Virginia - M1762
  • U.S. Court of Claims Docket Cards for Congressional Case Files, 1884-1937 - M2007

Slavery

• State Slavery Statutes (The index to this microfiche set is State Slavery Statutes: Guide to the Microfiche Collection  R342.73/S797, which is shelved on top of the microfiche cabinet in Special Collections. It indexes the statutes by subjects, names, and geographic locations and includes the names of many slaves.)
• U.S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana:
• Inward Slave Manifests, 1807-1860 
  • Partial transcription of Inward Slave Manifests is available in the Slave Data section on the AfriGeneas website.
  • An index for the Slave Manifests inward bound to New Orleans from Baltimore and other Maryland ports is on pages 132-639 of Cash for Blood by Ralph Clayton.  [R973.711 C622C]
• Outward Slave Manifests, 1812-1860
• Wilbur H. Siebert Collection (Underground Railroad) 
  An online guide is available from the Ohio Historical Society. (PDF format, 4 Mb)

Microfilms & Fiche  |  Databases & CD-ROMS  |  Books

• (The following subscription databases can be used free of charge at all St. Louis County Branches through  www.accessible.com.)
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  Begins with first Black newspaper in America. Includes Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Frederick Douglas Paper, Provincial Freeman, and The Christian Recorder.
• The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
  Contains full text of 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Inquirer published between 1 November 1860 and 30 April 1865

CD-ROMs

• African American Genealogy, 1850-1880 [CD-ROM #M22] Includes birth and death information extracted from the federal census for this time period.
• African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. federal census [CD-ROM #HB1263] 
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860 [CD-ROM #M1]  
• Freedman's Bank records [CD-ROM #M8]