Keyword Year Type Select Ads Obituaries How to Search Advanced Search Showing 710 results Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Afro-American (Baltimore, MD)Afro-American Advocate (Coffeyville, KS)Afro-American Ledger (Baltimore, MD)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)Bee (Ripley, OH)Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY)Daily Newbernian (New Bern, NC)Daily Press and Herald (Knoxville, TN)Iowa State Bystander (Des Moines, IA)Kansas City Sun (Kansas City, MO)Lost Friends AdLoyal Georgian (Augusta, GA)Montgomery Daily Advertiser (Montgomery, AL)Nashville Globe (Nashville, TN)New National Era (Washington, DC)New Orleans Tribune (New Orleans, LA)Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)Southern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southern Republican (Demopolis, AL)Southwestern Christian AdvocateSouthwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Advocate, (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Recorder (New Orleans, LA)St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO)St. Louis Post Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)The Abbeville Press and Banner (Abbeville, SC)The Appeal (Chicago, IL)The Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN)The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)The Boston Daily Globe (Boston, MA)The Buffalo Enquirer (Buffalo, NY)The Buffalo Review (Buffalo, NY)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Colored American (Washington, DC)The Colored Tenessean (Nashville, TN)The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN)The Elevator (San Francisco, CA)The Freedman (Boston, MA)The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)The Georgia Baptist (Augusta, GA)The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)The Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL)The Nationalist (Mobile, AL)The New York World (New York, NY)The Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)The Watchman and Southron (Sumter, SC)The Weekly Clarion (Jackson, MS)The Weekly Louisianian (New Orleans, LA)Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT) [Ad copied from the Zion Church Advocate, published in Washington, DC, with commentary by the editor of the Vermont Phoenix] Item Type Ad Tags family historyAfrican Methodist Episcopal Churchattorneyaunt(s)capturedchanged namechild(ren)Civil WarCivil War battleConfederate States Armycontrabandsconvicteddebtdeceaseddesertion (spousal)dowrydying wishemancipationemigrationenslaver looking for former slaveescapedescaped from jailestateestate divisionExodustersfemale enslaverforced migrationformer enslaverfraternal groupsfree people of colorfreedgrandparent(s)heir(s)hired outIndian Territoryinheritancekidnappingleft with Union Armyliteracylocation knownlynchingmanumittedmaritime workmaster diedmigration (north)migration (post-emancipation)migration (west)ministerministers please readmissing person(s)multiple adsmutual searchNative Americansnewspaper replyniecenorthern slaveryorphan/orphanageparent(s)passingperson with a disabilityphysical descriptionprobatepropertyrailroadrailroad workerReconstructionremarriedresistancereunion successfulrewardrunawaysailorsearching for former enslaverself-emancipationself-injuryself-purchasesibling(s)simultaneous searchskilled tradeslave tradeslave tradersoldsold southsoldierspeculatorspousesteamboatstolensuicideU. 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Jackson looking for Baptist preacher Timins Gray Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 3, 1881 Charles Edward Hudson searching for his father Richard Hudson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 14, 1889 Josephine Gooden (formerly Josephine Porter) searching for her father Daniel Glover, mother Sarah, and siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 24, 1889 Jane Simpson (formerly Jane Jones) searching for her mother Charlotte and her grandmother Tiddia Ann Tucker Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 3, 1889 Eliza Johnson (formerly Ann Eliza Wood) wants to find her mother Susan Wood, father William Wood, and siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 3, 1881 John William Sheppard searching for his mother Millie Sheppard (formerly Millie Chivers) and her relatives Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 19, 1889 Silvia Catchings searching for the family of her mother Sallie Qualls Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 30, 1888 Laura Brown seeking her mother Katie Holmes and siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 30, 1888 Laura Brown searching for her mother Katie Holmes and siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 23, 1888 Avant Silvy searching for Julien Herynes Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 14, 1889 J. W. Lampkin seeking their brother and cousin Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 23, 1888 Jane Darden seeking her siblings, including her brother Jerry Barklin Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 1, 1881 Sylvia Round seeking her daughter Madora Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 25, 1881 Mrs. Cornelia Edwards searching for her father Plenty McKeniers and family Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 16, 1888 Oliver Bradford searching for his brother William Green Bradford Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 26, 1888 H. A. Williams (formerly Simon Williams) searching for his mother Mary Williams, aunt Hannah Brunson, and grandmother Selia Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 23, 1880 William Slaughter searching for his sister Liza Johnson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 21, 1889 Mrs. Mahala Harvey searching for her sister Maria Green Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) January 31, 1889 Alpha Hodges searching for their mother's family Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 18, 1881 W. C. Lewis searching for their relatives, including their grandparents Nancy Pratt and Thomas Saunders Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 9, 1880 L. W. C. Wilson searching for his father's relatives, including his paternal grandmother Henrietta Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 23, 1880 of 29
