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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West)Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)Public Opinion (Chambersburg, PA)Raleigh Daily News (Raleigh, NC)Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870, Letters Received, A – F, 1867, NMAAHC.FB.M809 Page 1: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426330240-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bwife%2522%26page%3D3 Page 2: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426330240-3?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bwife%2522%26page%3D3Republican Banner (Nashville, TN)Richmond Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA)San Francisco Elevator (San Francisco, CA)South Carolina Leader (Charleston, SC)South Carolina Leader (Charleston)Southern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern 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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 Mary Long searching for her family The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA) April 1, 1874 Marjouri Moxley searching for her family The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA) April 1, 1874 Alexander Pasco searching for his mother The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA) April 1, 1874 Henry Brown searching for his family The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA) April 1, 1874 Fannie Highland searching for her children The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA) April 1, 1874 Simon Culver writing to Freedmen's Bureau Wager Swayne trying to get his wife and children released from indenture Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870, Letters Received, A – F, 1867, NMAAHC.FB.M809 Page 1: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426330240-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bwife%2522%26page%3D3 Page 2: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426330240-3?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bwife%2522%26page%3D3 February 6, 1867 Louis Baskville searching for Milton Baskville The National Baptist Union-Review (Nashville, TN) October 31, 1903 Caroline Edmerson searching for Winnie Ann Johnson The National Baptist Union-Review (Nashville, TN) June 14, 1901 James Edward Johnson searching for his family The New York Age (New York, NY) January 11, 1916 Samuel Jones searching for Dock and George Jones The Colored Tennesean (Nashville, TN) July 18, 1866 Emaline May (Withrow) searches for her family Americus Weekly Recorder (Americus, GA) May 10, 1889 James Edward Johnson searching for his siblings The New York Age (New York, NY) March 28, 1907 Isaac Stewart seeking his brother Robert Lane The Nationalist (Mobile, AL) June 21, 1866 Fanny Cooper searching for her children, Thornton and Jane Page and Lawson Davis Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 Nancy Hall searching for her sisters, Luvenia and Charlotte Perry, and her daughter, Fanny Brown Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 Mother of Haines Devant searching for her son, his family Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 Andrew Jenkins searching for his wife Rosa Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 "Doc" Daniels responding to an ad seeking Absolam Faust The St. Joseph Weekly Gazette (St. Joseph, MO) January 31, 1894 Mrs. Katie Hanson searching for her uncle, Ben Williams [Willis], and other family members The Missionary Search-Light (Selma, AL) March 15, 1900 Mrs. R. M. Sheridan searching for her father, Miles Wilson The Weekly Pelican (New Orleans, LA) February 23, 1889 Annie Hoage Polk searches for her lost relatives The St. Louis Argus (St. Louis, MO) November 07, 1919 Dr. Elwynn and father of Daniel, Tate, Mary, and Susan would thankfully receive any information Pennsylvania Freedmen's Bulletin April 1867 George Godwin searches for his nephew, Samuel Davis The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA) December 01, 1872 Milly Francis Hall searches for her siblings, Amelia F. Hall, Sallie Hall, Elijah Hall, and her half-relations, Lucy Ann Braxton, and Georgianna and Charles Whitess. The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA) March 01, 1872 Unknown person searches for Christiana, Thomas, David, Henry, William, Sallie, and Nellie Howard The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA) July 1, 1873 of 80
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