Selected (Free) Online Sources Relevant to African American Research

• Afrigeneas (The premier site devoted to African American Genealogy)
• The Beyond Kin Project (This project facilitates "the documentation of enslaved populations, particularly by recruiting the resources and efforts of the descendants of slaveholders."
• USA.gov Family History and Genealogy. 
• Darlington County SC African-American Genealogy Resources
• South Carolina Archives online.
• Family Search wiki on Laurens County.
• Freedmen's Bureau Records on Familysearch
• HeinOnline "brings together . . . all essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world."
• The Dead Librarian: South Carolina Digital Library Links.
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
• Lowcountry Africana, Freedmen's Bureau.
• Allen County Public Library, African American Gateway Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Data Base
• Mapping the Freedmen’s Bureau – An Interactive Guide
• Dr. Neil Frankel's African American Genealogy page.
• “Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery” (This site contains  “Information Wanted” advertisements placed by Freedmen and women who were searching for lost family members.)
• The Slave Name Roll Project
• Jamaican Family Search
• Race and Slavery Petitions Project (This site allows search of data extracted from 18th and 19th century documents)
• South Carolina Secretary of State Abstracts of Voter Registrations, 1868

General information:

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy sites on the internet.
• Ancestry's Free Family Tree Creator
• Digital Public Library of America.
• HathiTrust Digital Library: hathitrust.org
• The Bailey's Free Genealogy Forms.
• Automatically Numbering Your Genealogy in Microsoft (R) Word-a Free E-Book
• Roots And Recall (a site that preserves SC history, historic houses, & family stories)