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    20 June 2015 | POSTED BY Newsroom Staff

    Freedmen's Bureau Project: Connecting African Americans With Civil War–Era Ancestors

    National volunteer indexing effort launched for 4 million freed slave records

    A national effort in the United States launched Friday will connect African Americans with their Civil War-era ancestors through the release of 1.5 million digitized images containing 4 million names from the Freedman’s Bureau.

    FamilySearch, a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced The Freedmen’s Bureau Project at a news conference held in the California African American Museum in Los Angeles on “Juneteenth,” the celebration of Emancipation Day 150 years ago today.

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