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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M. Frias seeking their mother's relatives Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 12, 1888 Jennie Crawford (formerly Jane Jones) seeking her relatives, including her parents Joe and Phoebe Jones Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 21, 1888 C. L. Crump searching for his grandparent's relative Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 30, 1881 Julia Cooper searching for her aunt Georgiana and uncles Matthew and Washington Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 2, 1889 John White seeking his mother Leah Willpit Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 9, 1889 Mrs. Charlotte Mitchell searching for her brother Henderson, father Davey Jackson, and mother Maria Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 2, 1889 Bettie Lee seeking her siblings Harriet, Eliza, Bob, Sidney, Aaron, and Sarah Jane Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 7, 1889 C. M. Moore seeking their brother-in-law Hart Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 26, 1888 Reverend Bedford Carr seeking his aunt Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 12, 1888 Mrs. Pumelo M. Carmichael seeking her sisters Celia and Phillis Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 12, 1888 Fannie Wells seeking her mother Fannie Haman and sister Katie Haman Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 12, 1888 J. G. Grant seeking their brother Edward Grant Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 5, 1888 Hannah Rembert (formerly Hannah Sinclair) seeking her mother's relatives, including Nicholls Walters and Henry B. Walters Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 5, 1888 S. D. Mynor Jr. searching for Irvin Lowe (formerly Irvin Martin) Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 15, 1880 of 29
