I saw mentioned in an article "African-American Marriage Records Before the Emancipation - cohabitat

SRose43

I saw mentioned in an article "African-American Marriage Records Before the Emancipation - cohabitation_records. Has anyone come across these records during your research. It seems that they are a part of the Freedmen Bureau records.

I did check the NARA website and I don't think Familysearch has those records.

SRose43

I did find some of these records: United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872 that are on Familysearch.

LegacyUser

Did you find the records that you were looking for? Or just some of the records?

Can you be specific about a location or time period of records that you are searching for?

FamilySearch has a Wiki that lists other cohabitation records:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Cohabitation_Records

 

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