This video covers the US 1866 Cohabitation Records. These records were produced by the Freedmen’s Bureau in many of the pre-Civil War slave owning states. They are an invaluable resource for those tracing their American slave ancestors.
For more information about the 1866 Cohabitation records, please visit: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Cohabitation_Records
Click below to access the registers for a specific state:
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Hello, Thank you for the helpful video! Do you have new links for Georgia and Alabama? Neither seem to be working. I tried going directly to Family Search but the Wiki only listed file numbers for Alabama and had no data for Georgia. I am not sure where to search now for this vital info.