AMERICAN ANCESTORS GENEALOGY DATABASE : NEW! NORTH AMERICAN - RECORDS OF ENSLAVED PEOPLE FROM PLANTATIONS and ESTATES 1765-1890

You may find that your local library has AMERICAN ANCESTORS GENEALOGY DATABASE.  To begin using this new database: According to my library, this database  includes birth, death, marriage, and census records of those who were enslaved as well as family members.

Go to 10 MILLION NAMES. 

This is a database in progress: CEDAR GROVE PLANTATION, a very large plantation, is the first plantation to be included and IT IS ARRANGED BY PLANTATION or ESTATE.

CEDAR GROVE PLANTATION is currently privately owned historical site in Huntersville, Mecklenburg, county, North Carolina and was built in the early 1830's by James G. Torrance.

There are a good number of posts and links of interest to those who have slavery in their family history here at ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY.  I look forward to using this database and would like to hear from those of you who use it!

You can pull up past posts about topics here by using the search feature to search or by clicking on the tab below the post, which should bring up all posts with that tag!

AMERICAN ANCESTORS DATABASES of THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

I do use other databases besides Ancestry TM and FamilySearch.  One of these is called American Ancestors.  Their website includes links to hire a pro.

Excerpt: We offer more than 470 record-based databases to search, containing data from all over the globe. Unique datasets include the Boston Catholic records, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants Applications, and many more.

According to my library, they have access to over 3000 searchable collections.

What I check them for mostly is Irish research especially as those include Boston Roman Catholics.

Years ago there were various start ups and some of those remain on the Internet or grew via volunteers and it seems that Ancestry TM and FamilySearch are the ones have grown the most.  So sometimes the difference is indexing.

There have been times where I checked more than one of the genealogy databases to find people on the census and indexing made all the difference.