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. S. ArmyU. S. Colored Troopsuncle(s)Underground Railroadunnamed person searchingveteranwhite fatherwhite newspaperwidow Morgan and Adeline Cammon searching for Morgan's mother Jennie Bowyer and Adeline's sister Maria Terrel The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 20, 1879 Drusilla Walters (formerly Drusilla Brown) searching for several siblings including brothers Henry Brown and Forbes Brown Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 25, 1882 Pauline Harper (formerly Pauline Mack) looking for her father Henry Mack, mother America Mack and her brothers and sisters The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 20, 1880 Rev. Samuel Blackwell looking for his father-in-law Gilbert Grant The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 25, 1879 George W. Lenox (formerly George Smith) looking for his mother Christenia, sisters, and brothers The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 29, 1881 Madison Moore searching for her mother Charity Smith Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 25, 1882 Bennet H. Forrest searching for his former guardians, and his mother's relatives. Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 4, 1882 Matilda Cox searching for her sister Lottie Hunt Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 4, 1882 L. J. S. Bell searching for their two aunts Leah and Ary Achworth Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 4, 1882 Jas. E. Shackleford (formerly James E. Harper) searching for his sister Julia Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 6, 1882 Richard Taylor searching for his mother Lydia Taylor Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 30, 1882 Robert Ray (formerly Robert Carmichael) searching for his daughters Henrietta and Lucey Jane Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 23, 1882 Caroline Waters searching for her mother Rosetta Waters and grandparents Leah and Isaac Waters Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 16, 1882 Rachel Turner searching for her father William Peoples and brother Dennis Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 16, 1882 G. W. White searching for his mother-in-law Mary Hubanks [Eubanks?] Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 9, 1882 Eliza Yancy searching for her mother Charlotte Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 2, 1882 Emma Spencer searching for her uncles Peter Robert, and Stephen Lockhart and aunt Isoleni Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 2, 1882 Susan Reed searching for her parents Friday and Anna Reed and several siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 2, 1882 Ben Ford searching for his friend Ben Herbert Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 2, 1882 Martha Lott searching for her uncles James Hayward and Moses Molden Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 23, 1882 Tita Hayend searching for her sister Charlotte Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 23, 1882 Mary Jane Buchanan (Mary Jane formerly Thornton) searching for her mother Dasey Thorton Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 23, 1882 Henry Quay searching for his father Henry Quay, mother Susan and several siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 16, 1882 Smith Blackwell searching on behalf of his wife, Rhoda Blackwell, for her parents Molly and Peter Roe and several siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 16, 1882 Martha Rainer (formerly Martha Bolden) searching for her siblings James, William, Ampy, Peter, and Claria Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 9, 1882 of 29