Keyword Year Type Select Ads Obituaries How to Search Advanced Search Showing 1978 results Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Abilene Weekly Reflector (Abilene, KS)Afro-American (Baltimore, MD)Afro-American Advocate (Coffeyville, KS)Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)American Citizen (Canton, MS)Americus Weekly Recorder (Americus, GA)Anglo-African (New York, NY)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Arkansas Weekly Mansion (Little Rock, AR)Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)Baptist Herald (Paducah, KY)Baton Rouge Tri-weekly Gazette & Comet (Baton Rouge, LA)Beaufort Republican (Beaufort, SC)Bee (Ripley, OH)Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, TN)Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY)Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, NC)Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN)Cleveland Daily Leader (Cleveland, OH)Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Daily 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AL)The New York Age (New York, NY)The New York Freeman (New York, NY)The New York World (New York, NY)The North Carolinian (Elizabeth City, NC)The Northwestern Recorder (Milwaukee, WI)The Pacific Appeal (San Francisco, CA)The Progress-Index (Petersburg, VA)The Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA)The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)The St. Joseph Weekly Gazette (St. Joseph, MO)The St. Louis Argus (St. Louis, MO)The Star and Enterprise (Newville, PA)The Star of Zion (Charlotte, NC)The State Capital (Springfield, IL)The State Journal (Jefferson City, MO)The Tennessean (Nashville, TN)The Washington Bee (Washington, DC)The Weekly Louisianian (New Orleans, LA)The Weekly Pelican (New Orleans, LA)The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, VA)The Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, NC)Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Union Springs Herald (Union Springs, AL) Item Type Ad Tags former enslaverAfrican Methodist Episcopal Churchantebellum adArmy 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Navyuncle(s)Underground Railroadunnamed person searchingveteranwhite fatherwhite newspaperwidow Lucy White (formerly Lucy Hubanks) searching for her mother, mother's husband, brothers and sisters Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 17, 1885 Lucy Banks (formerly Lucy Lee) searching for her mother, father, and eight siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 25, 1885 Lucinda Samuel searching for her mother Phillis, father Blacksmith Ben, four brothers, and two sisters Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 5, 1884 Lucinda McHenry searching for her mother and six siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 17, 1885 Louisa Mitchell searching for her father Frank Walker, mother Harriet Walker, sisters, and brothers Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 24, 1885 Louisa Kelly searching for her mother Nancy West, brother George West, and two sisters Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 16, 1885 Lou Davis searching for their friend Irvin Loveless Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 17, 1884 An unknown person found several relations through the Southwestern Christian Advocate including their Aunt Mary Jackson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 15, 1885 Kizzie Franklin (formerly Kizzi Ortry) searching for her daughter Eliza Ortry's brothers Bob and John Orty and Edy Denson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 19, 1885 Julian Jones searching for his sister Harriet Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 19, 1884 John Alexander (formerly John Leggett) searching for his brothers George and Natha (1 of 2) Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 1, 1885 J. S. Payne searching for his father Solon, mother Wainia, and brother Jefferson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 17, 1884 J. D. Smith searching for the relatives of Mr. Charley Conner Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 24, 1884 J. D. Haskell searching for his mother, father, sisters, and brothers Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 22, 1884 Nancy Williams (formerly Nancy Mosbey) searching for her mother Jennie Moseby as well as her four brothers and her sister Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 29, 1884 J. B. Baker searching for his mother Elizabeth Grirson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 10, 1884 Maria Williams (formerly Sarah Elizabeth) searching for her father Charley Stephen Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 10, 1884 S. Young searching for their father Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 22, 1883 Augustus and Lutitia Bryant searching for their five children The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN) March 24, 1866 Saml. Dove searching for his mother Areno and siblings The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN) August 12, 1865 William Davis and his sister Mary reunited after forty years separation Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN) August 14, 1897 Ellen Warmack searching for her sister Jennie Norman. The Appeal (Chicago, IL) April 25, 1891 Smith Fields searching for his father William Fields The Appeal (Chicago, IL) January 24, 1891 Alonzo Henry searching for his father, Washington Samson, and unnamed mother The Appeal (Chicago, IL) February 7, 1891 Mrs. Sarah Bell searching for her husband Stephen Crab or Phoenix The Appeal (Chicago, IL) June 4, 1892 of 80
