The museum is an official FamilySearch affiliate library. Sit down with a trained volunteer, open a free account, and start searching millions of records — at no cost.
As an affiliate library, the museum can help you create a free FamilySearch account that opens up records you cannot reach from home.
Open FamilySearchThe account is free, the help is free, and the sessions are free. The program runs during regular museum hours in slots of one to two hours.
Fill out the short appointment form. Tell us roughly what you are hoping to find — a name, a county, a church, anything.
When the request comes in, the museum connects you with a trained family history volunteer and confirms a time.
One to two hours, one-on-one, in the reading room. You leave with an account of your own and somewhere to pick the search back up.
Complete the form and the museum will be in touch to confirm a volunteer and a time. Available during regular museum hours, Wednesday to Saturday.
Open the appointment form
Or scan to open the form
An ongoing list of websites and archives that help with African American family history research in the Brazos Valley and beyond.
