A question on the facebook page of the African American Genealogy & Slave Ancestry Research group (AAGSAR) prompted me to post this information that I complied as a reference source at the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library which houses the Buffalo African-American Funeral Program and Obituary Collection.
African American Funeral Program Collections
A Select List
The Eula M. Ramsey Johnson Memorial Funeral Program Collection of 3,000 programs spans more than thirty years (1933-2017) of African American
funerals in the Augusta area. (Online)
The
collection consists of programs that date from 1935 to present day
and depicts the African American community in Bexar County. (Online)
The
Black Archives Obituary and Funeral Program Collection documents the lives and
deaths of black South Floridians, 1962—2010. (In-house)
The Kelly Bryant Funeral Program Collection, housed in the North Carolina Room, Durham County Library, Durham
NC., is a collection of local newspaper obituaries and funeral service programs.
Brownsville/Haywood County
Funeral Programs collected by individual residents and family
members of Brownsville and Haywood Counties, Tennessee.
Maryland
State Library Resource Center, Enoch Pratt Free Library
Funeral
programs from the 1960s to the present. (On-site collection)
Index of
Funeral Programs, 1800-1965
Compiled by the Indiana African American Genealogy Group,
Indianapolis, IN
Hosted by the Allen County Public Library with obituaries from 1974-2010. (Online)
Middle Peninsula
African-American Genealogical and Historical Society (MPAAGHS)
A collaboration with Family Search to produce a free searchable online database of community funeral programs (FamilySearch account needed to access collection)
The
Chatham County Funeral Programs exhibit documents the lives and deaths of
several generations of African American Chatham County residents.
Geographic focus
of the collection mostly Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma. Name index.
Nice compilation, Sandra!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sonia
DeleteBoth you & the Funeral Programs compilation are AMAZING Sandra! What a blessing to be surrounded by the likes of such resourceful people! Many thanks!:)
ReplyDeleteThanks Luckie. The joke between me & my mother is that information is my life.
DeleteNice! Found one of my friend's grandfather's in the Brownsville TN collection!
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DeleteWhat a great grouping of resources...thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletethank you for guiding us toward these resources!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't keep it to myself : )
DeleteAmazing! many thanks to you Sandra. I already see a found a connection to relatives for Brownsville,TN. My husband's ancestors are from there! This is Awesome!
ReplyDeleteWonderful. So glad I found a forum to share.
DeleteThank you so much for posting these. You are a gem and you put a whole new to the word collaboration. Thank you for compiling this list. I am going through them now.
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome. Hope you can find a connection.
DeleteWhat an awesome resource you are and the resources you have shared. Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Hope it can be helpful to you.
DeleteThis is great! Even though my database is much smaller, I'd love for you to add my site to your list. On my (side) blog, Genea-related, I have a link to a growing database, which lists the names of people for whom I have funeral programs in my possession. Currently, I have about 400 programs. I am slowly, but surely, adding them all to the database. Most of the people either lived, or had roots in Franklin County, NC, but there are a few others in the database from other areas. Please take a look! :)
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Happy to add your database to the list. We must carry the touch and spread the word -- Genealogy junkies.
DeleteIf you find anything on SC specifically Orangeburg that would be helpful. Thanks
ReplyDeleteI'll be on the lookout. Thanks for the suggestion.
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ReplyDeleteI consider it an honor to share this information. Please feel free to pass it on and let me know of other sites I can add.
DeleteSandra thanks for sharing this blog with me. This is a great list. If your list is still active please add the McGowan Funeral Home collection database by the Dallas African American Genealogy Interest Group to your archives. https://dallasgenealogy.org/local-records/mcgowan-funeral-home/
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