<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style=""><div style=""><div style=""><div style=""><div style=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All,</div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please see the below article announcing free access to a newly digitized Freedmen's Bureau records database, via Ancestry.com. This should prove to be of great value for African-American genealogical research:</div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/</a><br></div><div style=""><a href="https://www.ancestry.com/cs/freedmens?o_iid=116301&o_lid=116301&o_sch=Web+Property">https://www.ancestry.com/cs/freedmens?o_iid=116301&o_lid=116301&o_sch=Web+Property</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div style=""><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jim</span><br><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jim Flury<br>Technical Services Manager<br>The Library Network<br>41365 Vincenti Court<br>Novi, MI 48375<br>248-536-3100, ext 133<br>Fax 248-536-3098<br>jflury@tln.lib.mi.us</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>