In the Library
African American lives [videorecording] / a film by Kunhardt Productions. Originally broadcast as a four-part television series in 2006. Written by Henry Louis Gates. Jr. ; a production of Kunhardt Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/ WNET New York.
Location: Morris Library – Media | DVD-Limited Circulation DVD 2472
Location: Internet (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/2006/index.html)
Black Family Research: Records Of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives. Compiled by Reginald Washington. Series (Reference information paper; 108) Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 2006.
Location: Morris Library | U.S. Documents-Lower Level AE 1.124:108/2006
Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy. By James M. Rose & Alice Eichholz. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003.
Location: Morris Library | Reference CS21 .R57 2003
Ethnic Genealogy: A Research Guide. Edited by Jessie Carney Smith ; foreword by Alex Haley.
Location: Morris Library | CS49 .E83 1983
A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage. By Franklin Carter Smith, Emily Anne Croom. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2003.
Location: Morris Library | Reference E185.96 .S6514 2003
Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide With Case Studies. By David H. Streets. Bowie, MD : Heritage Books, 1986.
Location: Morris Library | E185.96 .S817 1986
Subject phrases to browse/search in DELCAT/WorldCatLocal:
Freedmen — United States — History
African American families — History
African Americans — Genealogy
Key phrases:
black indians
On the Internet
African American Research (National Archives)
African-American (Cyndi’s List)
See especially, the How To section.
Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865-1872 (National Archives)
Researching Slavery and Freedom 
(Philadelphia Regional National Archives)
The Six Phases of African American Genealogy (Ancestry.com Learning Center)
The Black loyalist directory: African Americans in exile after the American Revolution. Edited with an introduction by Graham Russell Hodges ; transcript and index, Susan Hawkes Cook ; layout and production, Alan Edward Brown. New York : Garland Pub. in association with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.
Location : Morris Library | E277 .B57 1996
Freedman’s Bank records. (Family history resource file) Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc. : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, c2000.
Location: Morris Library | Microforms CD-ROM 1237
List of free Black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790. (Special list / National Archives and Records Service; no. 34) Compiled by Debra L. Newman.Washington: National Archives and Records Service, 1973.
Location: Morris Library | U.S. Documents-Lower Level GS 4.7:34
First American Jewish families: 600 Genealogies, 1654-1977. by Malcolm H Stern. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1978.
Stern’s book contains family trees of Jewish families that arrived in the United States between 1654 and 1838.
- Not at UD
- Last published in 1991 and now out of print
- The American Jewish Archives has posted the entire text online
- Added an index you can browse or search by last name and optional first name
- Click on a name in the search results to see a digital image of the page on which the person appears
Peter Pfister or Pfester or Phister (Feaster) who was traveling with his son Jacob. Arrived in the Port of Philadelphia before the American Revolution. Go to:
- Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (PILI). 3 vols. and supp. Edited by P. William Filby. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1980.
Location: Morris Library – Reference (Ref CS68 .P36 1981 and CS68 .P362)
- The most important source for ship and immigration list information. It is a name index to thousands of passenger lists which have been published in books or articles. Covers passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The cumulated supplements contain thousands of additional records:1982-85 Supplement, 4 vols.; 1986-1990, 3 vols.; 1991-1995, 3 vols.; 1996-2000, 3 vols.; 2001-2005, 3 vols. Use the index and supplements to identify a published source. Then use DELCAT to see if the source is available in this library. Note: the UD Library does not receive the annual supplements.
Vol. 3, in the First edition, found:
- Pfister, Jacob n.a; Philadelphia, Pa, 1754 9041 p611, p613
- Phister, Jacob 22; Philadelphia, Pa, 1754 9041 p609
- Phister, Peter 46; Philadelphia, Pa, 1754 9041 p609
n.a. = no age; Port of arrival; Year of arrival; Number designating published source; Page
Consulting the list of sources, 9041 is
Strassburger, Ralph Beaver. Pennsylvania German Pioneers; A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. By Ralph Beaver Strassburger. Edited by William John Hinke. Norristown, Penn.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934.
Location: Morris Library F 146 .P45 v.42-44
The ship was named Brothers.
In Strassburger, I found 3 different lists for the ship Brothers in 1754.
- List A: kept by the captains of ships;
- List B: signers of the oath of allegiance;
- List C: signers of the oath of abjuration. p. viii.
- Sometimes the captains give the total number of freights, children being counted as “half freights.” p. xxiii
- Ship Brothers lists 7 Roman Catholicks, 23 Mennonites, 250 Souls, 210 Freights. 101 Qualified. [From the] Palatinate & Mentz. p. 612.
- Note: “Qualified” indicates the number of adult males who signed the oaths.
Additionally, I found that someone had transcribed the lists and posted them on the Internet.
3 Lists from Brothers, 1754
Sources for Learning about Immigration Records
“Passenger List Launch—70 Million Names from U.S. Ports Added.” Ancestry Daily News 11/1/2006
“Rediscovering Passenger Lists.” Ancestry Magazine Vol. 19 No. 6, November/December 2001.
The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Company, 1997. Location: Morris Library – Reference (Ref CS49 .S65 1997) See pages 441-519.
Finding Immigration Records
Library Research Guides: Naturalizations and Passenger Lists
- Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (PILI). 3 vols. and supp. Edited by P. William Filby. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1980.
Location: Morris Library – Reference (Ref CS68 .P36 1981 and CS68 .P362)
- The most important source for published ship and immigration list information. It is a name index to thousands of passenger lists which have been published in books or articles. Covers passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The cumulated supplements contain thousands of additional records:1982-85 Supplement, 4 vols.; 1986-1990, 3 vols.; 1991-1995, 3 vols.; 1996-2000, 3 vols.; 2001-2005, 3 vols. Use the index and supplements to identify a published source. Then use DELCAT to see if the source is available in this library. Note: the UD Library does not receive the annual supplements.
Ships & Passenger Lists (Cyndi’s List)
AfriGeneas
African American & African Ancestored Genealogy
Black History (Footnote.com)
Footnote.com has been working with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, D.C., to digitize records that provide a view into the lives of African Americans that few have seen before.
Examples:
American Colonization Society Letters and Records
Service Records for Colored Troops in the Civil War
Southern Claims Commission Petitions for compensation resulting from the Civil War
See announcement.
