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20 Jun 2015, 11:13 am

KSL.com wrote:
In a Juneteenth announcement Friday in Los Angeles that generated widespread excitement and jubilant parties nationwide, the LDS Church, FamilySearch.org and African-American history organizations announced the joint Freedmen's Bureau Project, an effort to digitize 1.5 million handwritten records about former slaves and make them available for free online at a new website, discoverfreedmen.org....

KSL.com: "LDS Church, FamilySearch to digitize records of 4M former slaves" (June 20, 2015)
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=35157832

This is a huge undertaking. For many black genealogists, even learning the names (let alone the pedigree) of their families is difficult at best. This repository will be a leap in the amount of information made available to online family historians.


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20 Jun 2015, 1:50 pm

I agree. I'm interested in what they find out.


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