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I believe it was the LDS who did a compilation of Freedman Bank Records.
Check their site www.familysearch.org and look under African American
research and see if it is there. Barbara in Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Fallin" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:36 PM
Subject: Freedman's Bureau Lists
> 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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