In honor of Black History Month, NEHGS has made the databases Free
Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830
[http://www.newenglandancestors.org/database_search/fnh.asp], and
People of Color in the Massachusetts State Census, 1855-1865
[http://www.newenglandancestors.org/database_search/poc.asp] free and
open to the public for the month of February.