Freedmen’s Bureau Project

Latter-day Saints Announce Completion of Freedman’s Project

Kathy Bence, Contributing WriterJuly 7, 2016

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

Religion

Find your roots at Freedmen’s Project & Conference

Kathy Bence (Contributing Writer)March 9, 2016

“Discover Your Roots,” the 14th annual conference focusing on African American genealogy, takes place on Saturday, March 12, in Los Angeles. The conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 1209 S. Manhattan Place in Los Angeles. Registration at the door is $40. For more information visit discoveryourrooots.org or call 1-800-533-2444. Among the more than 20 workshops will be a class on the Freedmen’s Bureau Project presented by Thom Reed, who oversees global communication for the project. Emancipation freed nearly four million slaves and the Freedmen’s Bureau, formerly known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned