NARA releases list of digitized records - African-American research - National African American Genealogy

Over the past few years, the National Archives and Records Administration has formed partnership with three organizations: Ancestry, Footnote, and FamilySearch. Through these partnerships, many NARA microfilm publications have been digitized and made available online, either free, as in the case of FamilySearch, or as part of a subscription service, as with Ancestry and Footnote.

But until now, there was never a comprehensive list of which NARA records were available online.

This changed yesterday, April 19, when the National Archives published the following on its website: “List of NARA Microfilm Publications and Original Records Digitized by Our Digitization Partners.”

This list contains, for each digitized record set, the NARA microfilm publication number, the title of the publication or original record with a link to the online database, the digitization partner, the completion status of the records, and the NARA record group number.

In addition to general record groups such as the federal census enumerations, military service and pension records, and Southern Claims Commission records, the following records specifically relevant to African-Americans research appear on this list:

Microfilm Publication Number	NARA Microform Publication Title	Partner	Status	Record Group
M 433	Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves, 1851-1863	Footnote.com	Completed	21
M 520	Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862-1863	Footnote.com	Completed	217
M 816	Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Saving and Trust Company, 1865-1874.	Ancestry.com	Completed	101
M1440	Correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division Relating to ""Negro Subversion"", 1917-1941.	Footnote.com	Completed	165
M1483	Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869.	Ancestry.com	Completed	105
M160	Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Colonization, 1854-1872.	Footnote.com	Completed	48
M1801	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops: 55th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored).	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1808	Eighth Census of the United States for the Northern District of Halifax County, Virginia, 1860: Schedules of Free Inhabitants, Slave Inhabitants, Mortality, Agriculture, Industry, and Social Statistics, 1860	Ancestry.com	Completed	29
M1817	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union 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	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1818	Compiled Military Service Records Of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With The United States Colored Troops: Artillery Organizations	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1819	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops: 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Colored) Company A, 1st U.S. Colored Infantry (1 Year)	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1820	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops, 2nd through 7th Colored Infantry including 3d Tennessee Volunteers (African Descent), 6th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), and 7th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent).	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1820	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops, 2nd through 7th Colored Infantry including 3d Tennessee Volunteers (African Descent), 6th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), and 7th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent).	Footnote.com	Completed	94
M1821	Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: Infantry Organizations, 8th through 13th, including the 11th	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1821	Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: Infantry Organizations, 8th through 13th, including the 11th	Footnote.com	In progress	94
M1822	Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations.	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1823	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops: Infantry Organizations, 20th through 25th.	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1824	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops: Infantry Organizations, 26th through 30th, Including the 29th Connecticut (Colored).	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1869	Records of the Assistant Commissioner and Subordinate Field Offices for the State of Florida, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872.	Ancestry.com	Completed	105
M1875	Marriage records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861-1869	Ancestry.com	Completed	105
M1895	Slave Manifests of Coastwise Vessels Filed at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1807-1860.	Ancestry.com	Completed	36
M1898	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the U.S. Colored Troops, 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored)	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M1902	Records of the field offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870.	Ancestry.com	Completed	105
M1903	Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872.	Ancestry.com	Completed	105
M1909	Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872	Ancestry.com	Completed	105
M1913	Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872	Ancestry.com	Completed	105
M1919	List of Selected African Americans from the 1890 and 1900 Federal Population Censuses of Delaware	Ancestry.com	Completed	29
M1992	Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops: Infantry Organizations, 31st through 35th.	Ancestry.com	Completed	94
M2012	Appellate Case File No. 2161, United States v. The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 (15 Peters 518), Decided March 9, 1841, and Related Lower Court and Department of Justice Records	Footnote.com	Completed	267
T 142	Selected Records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872	Ancestry.com	Completed	105