Virginia Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, Japanese American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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Virginia Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, index & images (marriage, labor, land, court, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images (medical, African American, cemetery, birth, death, family names), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, labor, bounty, medical, land, personal information), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, employment, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal), at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – USGenWeb Project: African American Archives, at USGWA
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index
US – Jewish – Virginia, Jewish Cemetery Records Index, ca. 1800-1986, index
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index and images
Virginia Minority Records Online at the state level
Virginia – African American – Virginia, Slave Birth Index, 1853-1866
Virginia – African American – Virginia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
Virginia – African American – Virginia, African-American Funeral Programs, 1935-2009
Virginia – African American – TransAtlantic Slave Trade Voyages, index
Virginia – African American – Virginia Slaves Freed after 1782
Virginia – African American – Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names, at VMH&C
Virginia – African American – Patriots of Color, at Arc$
Virginia – African American – Black Loyalists
Virginia – African American – Virginia Cohabitation Records, at FS
Virginia – African American – Slave Data Collection, at AG
Virginia – African American – Virginia Emigrants to Liberia
Virginia – African American – Virginia Untold, at LOV
Virginia – African American – Virginia Obits, at AG
Virginia – African American – Virginia Slavery Project, at BWS
Virginia – African American – Freedmen’s Bureau Records and Labor Contracts, at FBO
Virginia – African American – Virginia Plantations, at S
Virginia – African American – Virginia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872, index and images, at FS
Virginia – African American – Virginia, African-American Funeral Programs, 1935-2009, index and images, at FS
Virginia – African American – Free people of colour : free Negroes, Indians, Portuguese and freed slaves, at FS
Virginia – African American – History of the colored volunteer infantry of Virginia 1871-99, at FS
Virginia – African American – Negro office holders in Virginia, 1865-1895, at HT
Virginia – African American – Princess Anne County guardian accounts: an index to enslaved and free African-Virginians in Princess Anne County (Vol. 1-5), at IA
Virginia – African American – Princess Anne County guardian accounts: an index to enslaved and free African-Virginians in Princess Anne County (Vol. 6-18), at IA
Virginia – African American – Registrations of free negroes commencing September court 1822, book no. 2 & register of free blacks 1835, book 3 : being the full text of the two extant volumes, 1822-1861, of registrations of free blacks now in the county courthouse, Fairfax, Virginia, at FS
Virginia – African American – Something to build on : genealogy of African American families of Henry County, Virginia and surrounding area with surnames A-Z, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – Chinese in Richmond, Virginia, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – Communication from Governor Francis Nicholson of Virginia, to the British lords of trade : concerning the Huguenot settlement with “list of ye refugees”, August 12th, 1700, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – Documents chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia : and to the settlement at Manakin-Town : with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye , Chastain, and other families, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town : with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – The German element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – The German element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – Hebron Lutheran congregation in Madison County, Va, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – History of the German element in Virginia : contributed by the author as a corresponding member of, and pub. by the Society for the history of the Germans in Maryland, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – The new world : the first pictures of America, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – Public claims, slaves and free blacks, 1781-1865, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – Records of the field offices for the state of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands : NARA, RG105, M1913, 1865-1872, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – Records of the superintendent of education for the state of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M1053, at FS
Virginia – Minorities – The road from Monticello : a study of the Virginia slavery debate of 1832, at FS
Virginia – Native American – Government and religion of the Virginia Indians, at FS
Virginia – Native American – Government and religion of the Virginia Indians, at FS
Virginia – Native American – Indians in seventeenth century Virginia, at FS
Virginia – Native American – Pocahontas, at FS
Virginia – Native American – Revaluation of the Eastern Siouan problem with particular emphasis on the Virginia branches – the Occaneechi, the Saponi, and the Tutelo, at FS
Virginia – Native American – The Algonquian names of the Siouan tribes of Virginia, at FS
Virginia – Native American – The Algonquian terms Patawomeke (Potomac) and Massawomeke, at FS
Virginia – Native American – An archeological survey of southwest Virginia, at FS
Virginia – Native American – The Bocootawanaukes : or the fire nation, at FS
Virginia – Native American – Index of History of the old Cheraws, at FS
Virginia – Native American – The names Chickahominy, Pamunkey, and the Kuskarawaokes of Captain John Smith, at FS
Virginia – Native American – Revaluation of the Eastern Siouan problem with particular emphasis on the Virginia branches – the Occaneechi, the Saponi, and the Tutelo, at FS
Virginia Minority Records Online at the local level
Bedford County – Slavery and Bondage – Slave Records, 1853-1866, at FS
Richmond (Independent City) – Jewish Records – Marriage Records, 1856-1880, at FS
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