Preservation of Records of Servitude, Emancipation, and Post-Civil War Reconstruction Act of 2006

This bill requires the National Archives to create a centralized, electronically searchable database of federal records related to slavery, emancipation, and the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. It also authorizes grants for states, universities, and genealogical organizations to preserve local records and build similar digital databases. For the public, this legislation aims to make historical and genealogical research significantly easier by digitizing documents that were previously difficult to access, helping families and historians more accurately trace lineage and study this period of American history.