ALLEN COUNTY INDIANA LIBRARY : ACPL GENEALOGY CENTER OFFERINGS : AFRICAN AMERICAN GATEWAY

ALLEN COUNTY GENEALOGY CENTER : AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH 

There is a lot to find here about African Americans in the United States but the list of other countries intrigues me:

Africa Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Brazil British Isles Canada

Caribbean Cuba England Europe France Grenada Haiti

Ireland Jamaica Latin America Liberia Mexico Netherlands Norway

Oceania Philippines Sierra Leone South Africa West Africa West Indies

I clicked on Sierra Leone and discovered that some Black people were loyalists to England and can be linked to Nova Scotia. I went back and clicked on the subject of RECONSTRUCTION. Up comes a list of books that focus on the Freedman's Bureau as well as politics.

Definity explore these offerings!

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ALLEN COUNTY INDIANA LIBRARY : ACPL GENEALOGY CENTER OFFERINGS : OPEN YOUR MIND WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICAN GATEWAY

ACPL GENEALOGY LIBRARY DATABASES

Indigenous Peoples of North America Gateway .... Let's click on that and look at Indigenous Peoples of North America Snapshot

Up will come the list of books this library owns.  Reading it you may find a title that has been digitalized elsewhere or on your local library shelf. 

There are also links to collections which are on microfilm that reside at the library for use there. Once again, look for the title elsewhere. 

Many of us have heard of THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES census roles.  However, other census of Native Americans were made. 

There are also learning links such as to the NATIONAL ARCHIVES on Native Americans on the Federal Census (where they appear as part of the count of the general population rather than tribal focus census) such as this: American Indians in the Federal Decennial Census, 1790-1930

I can say that in looking this over, there are some tribal names I don't think I ever encountered.

Many ancestors await being found!

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PERSI - THE PERIODICAL SOURCE INDEX : IT'S FREE and EXISTS BECAUSE OF THE DEDICATED WORK OF GENEALOGY LIBRARIANS AT ALLEN COUNTY INDIANA LIBRARY

ACPL RESOURCE 

This is a massive database from the Allen County Indiana Public Library. The search feature will bring up SUBJECT INDEX that lead you to Periodicals from Genealogy Societies! You want to search for a topic, which can be the name of a state, town, surname. It will bring up the NAME OF THE ARTICLE, the DATE PUBLISHED, and THE PUBLISHER which could be a Genealogy or Historical Society. Searching through these MAY ALSO LEAD YOU TO THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF GENEALOGY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES YOU NEVER KNEW EXISTED.

Excerpt: PERSI is the premier subject index for genealogy and local history periodicals, and is produced by the staff of The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library. This valuable resource provides more than 3.2 million citations to readily-available periodical sources. 

After finding what interests you, you can order a copy of the publication.  YOU CANNOT READ THE PUBLICATION FOR FREE HERE but YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIND IT ELSWHERE DIGITALIZED NOW THAT YOU HAVE THE TITLE. That said, the fee for them to copy it and send it to you is reasonable. It's $7.50 for them to locate up to six articles and copy fees are per page and paid later.

Let's try it. Click on United States. Then select Florida. Then Bay County.

Listed are publications by Bay County Genealogical Society, Florida Historical Quarterly, Pensacola Historical Society, Museum of Southern Jewish Experience, Florida State Genealogical Society, West Florida Genealogical Society, Tallahassee Genealogical Society, and some others. 

More on this library's offerings in the next post.

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ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT

Our genetic and spiritual ancestors help us with our research quests 

and, while we follow a linear research path, 

amazing dreams and synchronicity abound. 

We explore multicultural ancestry worship 

and the use of genealogy for past-life verification, 

as well as practical ways and means to achieve your research goals.