I have no idea how much these costs or where to order them. But, it will be a break through for Black researchers. You may be able to inquire http://www.familysearch.com This information was in the Cleveland Oh Plain Dealer Newspaper. A Mormon Church has CD-ROM packed with thousands of records from the Freedmon's Savings and Trust Co., a post Civil War bank for ex-slaves. It will be unveiled on Monday by the Church of Latter Day Saints at a news conference. There will be more than 70,000 of rare, poorly organized and aging paper files of bank account holders. Slave ships kept no slave identities , and if they were kept it was by the owners and first name only. It has taken the Mormons more than five years to compile the records stored at the National Archives. Along with the names, addresses and employment information , the cards often had children's names and sibblings,service in the Union Army and the client's former owners, along with their former plantations. Milly WARD Piros "I'm up a Tree, out on a Limb, reaching for a Branch, and can only grab a Twig because my Roots are covered".... http://www.geocities.com/millyella/sitemap.html