Keyword Year Type Select Ads Obituaries How to Search Advanced Search Showing 163 results Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Abilene Weekly Reflector (Abilene, KS)Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, NC)Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)Battle Creek Daily Moon (Battle Creek, MI)Bee (Ripley, OH)Boston Post (Boston, MA)Bucyrus Journal (Bucyrus, OH)Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan, MI)Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (Cincinnati, OH)Clinch Valley News (Tazewell Courthouse, VA)Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY)Daily Republican (Wilmington, DE)Daily State Gazette (Green Bay, WI)Davenport Sunday Democrat (Davenport, IA)Eufala Daily Times (Eufala, AL)Harrisburg Daily Independent (Harrisburg, PA)Indianapolis Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN)Iowa State Bystander (Des Moines, IA)Jersey City News (Jersey City, NJ)Juniata Sentinel and Republican (Mifflintown, PA)Justice (Chattanooga, 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S. ArmyU. S. Colored InfantryU. S. Colored TroopsU.S. Armyuncle(s)Underground Railroadveteranwhite fatherwhite newspaperwidow 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 Response given to Betsy Chatman searching for brother George Chatman or George Chapman Clinch Valley News (Tazewell Courthouse, VA) August 26, 1892 Unidentified person searching for Rev. P.J. Jackson (two items: ad and reply to ad) St. Louis Palladium (St. Louis, MO) August 22, 1903 Valentine Toliver searching for their sister Pinnie and brother-in-law Robert Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 16, 1886 David Young searching for his stepfather's family Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 19, 1883 Elizabeth Jones searching for her people Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA) March 20, 1897 Dock Watson found Alex Wesley Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 24, 1883 E. E Cooper responding to two ads involving Charles Wardles and J. W. Scott The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 8, 1886 William Johnson responding to his father's advertisement Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 29, 1886 S. G. Wilson replying to previous ad placed that he has found his father Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN) October 24, 1891 C. C. Minegan responding to an ad placed on May 4, 1882 by Elmira Brack Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 8, 1882 L. H. Horn announcing that the people Henry Smith inquires for are in Grimes County, TX Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 16, 1880 Naro Gillespie found his relatives (3 of 3 ads) Southwestern Christian Recorder (New Orleans, LA) December 1, 1881 of 7
