Alma Baily

Latter-day Saints Announce Completion of Freedman’s Project

The Freedmen’s Bureau Project will bring a change to family history research for African Americans, according to Dr. Edna Briggs, president of the California African American Genealogical Society. FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world, which is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has announced completion of the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, which indexed the names of millions of African Americans collected directly following emancipation. “Indexing is a transcription effort that makes valuable genealogical records searchable online,” Dr. Briggs said. “By completing this project, African Americans can now digitally search for their ancestors who were previously