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Printable cursive handwriting practice sheets to help young researchers read historical documents written in old script.

Records and resources from the Freedmen's Bureau, one of the most important post-Civil War agencies for tracing formerly enslaved ancestors.

Research trails and guides for navigating genealogical records, county histories, and regional archives.

Historical insurance policy records that can document enslaved people by name. An often-overlooked genealogical source.

First-person accounts collected by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s from people who had been enslaved. Invaluable primary sources.