An article (with a complete title list) about the new content from 112 newspapers that GenealogyBank added to its online archives in February 2024... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about some African American women leaders in the women’s suffrage movement... (Read More)
An article about how newly-freed Blacks found missing members of their families after the Civil War using “missing person” ads in newspapers... (Read More)
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about his family history research using GenealogyBank... (Read More)
A look at some of the articles published in the inaugural issue of Freedom’s Journal, the first African American newspaper published in America... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega explores a helpful resource for family history research: an online collection of African American newspapers... (Read More)
An article showing how newspaper articles help document the genealogy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. .. (Read More)
An article about two sources for information about ex-slaves: stories in old newspapers; and Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project... (Read More)
An article about Nicodemus, Kansas, a historic black town settled by African Americans at the end of Civil War Reconstruction... (Read More)