2013 Genealogy Fair Finding US Colored Troops at the National Archives

This talk will focus on records located at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, relating to soldiers who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. The speaker will walk researchers through records relating to black soldiers and will focus heavily on what to look for that is unique in records that are common to other soldiers and veterans such as compiled military service records and pension files. The records relating to service in the U.S. Colored Troops are a rich resource of information that provide information on not only the soldiers who served but also can lead researchers on the path to finding other family members as well. Please join us on September 4 to learn more about this ground breaking group of soldiers, many of them former slaves, who led the way for black soldiers to serve in the U.S. Army following the Civil War and paved the way for the abolishment of slavery and the right to vote.

Presenter biography:
Trevor K. Plante is the Chief of Reference at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. He is a supervisory archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration who specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century military records. He is an active lecturer at the National Archives and a frequent contributor to Prologue. He compiled Reference Information Paper 109, Military Service Records at the National Archives. His articles have also appeared in America’s Civil War and Social Education Magazine. He has participated as a speaker at national and state genealogical conferences and has spoken at the National Gallery of Art, National Museum of the American Indian, and several Civil War symposiums. He has appeared on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and NPR.

Learn more:
https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair/2013
https://www.archives.gov/calendar/know-your-records

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