Dear List,

It has occurred to me that, as a purely bureaucratic matter, each  
County's Freedman's Bureau must have made some sort of list of their  
"client" freed slaves after the War.  If so, it could be  
extraordinarily valuable in African-American research, because it  
would list surnames when they were still "new."  I have recently  
heard that work is being done on pulling together Freedman's Bureau  
information (I may have seen it in a message here), but I do not know  
how comprehensive the work will be.  Does anyone have more specific  
information on this project?

Jack Fallin
Walnut Creek, CA

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