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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Wade searching for brothers Calvin, Joseph, and Gabriel Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 7, 1882 Betsy Dod searching for her family members including father Summer Thompson and mother Easter Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 31, 1882 Hattie Strange searching for pastor Dave Slow and her husband Samuel Strange's family Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA) May 21, 1910 Geo. Earley (formerly Phillip Chrisman) searching for his father Geo. Washington Chrisman, mother Judia Chrisman, and siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 24, 1882 Harriet Dupree looking for her father David Brannomn The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 20, 1886 D. J. Price seeking information about his father, William Price's family The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 6, 1886 Sam Bassett searching for his father Sam Bassett The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 22, 1886 C. H. Wyatt looking for their sister Josephine Victoria Scaggs The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 22, 1886 Bettie Chatman (formerly Bettie Moore) searching for her mother Charity Lay and siblings Charlotte, Hannah, and Jim Benny The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 25, 1886 Sarah Slater searching for sister Lucy and brother Joe Dennis The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 25, 1886 Eliza McMillon (formerly Eliza Morgan) seeking information about her mother Harriet Price and siblings The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 18, 1886 Juda Ann Williams (formerly Juda Ann Grear) looking for her father Edmond Alexander The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 25, 1886 Rev. Geo. A. Payne searching for his family including father Walter and mother Sarah Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 10, 1882 Martin Vincent searching for his brother Ned Owens Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 20, 1882 Louisa Gibbs searching for her son Nat Adams Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 13, 1882 Jane Bush (formerly Rachel Parsley) searching for her son George and parents Randy, and Cindia Brown The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 4, 1886 Rev. Bedford Carr seeking Carrie Serreen The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) January 28, 1886 John Bosan looking for his father Abe Bosan The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) January 28, 1886 Amanda Adams (formerly Amanda White) searching for her father John Williams and sister Jane Wallis The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) January 14, 1886 Miss P. L. Foster seeking her father's family including father Joe Foster The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 13, 1881 Maria Freeman searching for her husband William Stokes Dosier and mother Maria Brooks The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 6, 1881 of 29
