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 Jim Napier searching for relatives Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 6, 1880 Bennet H. Forrest searching for his guardians George and Salley Hunter Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 29, 1880 Daniel D. Pugh searching for Simon Eaton Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 29, 1880 William Ambrose (formerly Ambrose Brackens) searching for his family New Orleans Tribune (New Orleans, LA) August 30, 1865 B. Rush Plumly is writing of the reunited family of Mr. Ambrose Brackens. New Orleans Tribune (New Orleans, LA) January 1, 1865 J. N. Moon searching for his two cousins Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 18, 1879 Jordan H. Haney searching for his brothers Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 18, 1879 P. S. Golden searching for his wife's mother Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 23, 1879 Sarah Jane Curtley searching for relatives Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 12, 1880 Riley Reed searching for his relatives Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 22, 1880 Eliza Tinner searching for her mother-in-law's relatives Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 4, 1880 Sarah F. Tolbert searching for her relatives, including her father Jordan Wren and mother Cherry Wren Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 18, 1880 Robert F. Sturdivant (formerly Robert Freer) searching for his aunt Henrietta Eaton Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 8, 1880 Rufus Rollings searching for his mother Letty and his siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 15, 1880 Caroline Rodes (formerly Annie Ferrill) searching for father Joseph, mother Milly, sisters Maria and Julia, and brother Anthony Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 4, 1879 L. S. Deckard (formerly Martha Booman) searching for her family, including father Jarrett Booman and mother Leanah Booman Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 13, 1879 Reverend Lymas A. Anders (formerly Lymas Cook) searching for Gideon Cook, Betsy Cook, and their children The Freedman (Boston, MA) February, 1869 Isaac Moore searching for his father Abraham and mother Tomer The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) December 29,1871 Henry Wright searching for his children (1st of 3 ads placed by Wright) Daily Press and Herald (Knoxville, TN) April 2, 1873 Mrs. Amy Frenchy (formerly Amy Morris and Amy Baxter) found her mother Feraby The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory) May 4, 1884 Vina Johnson reunited with her husband George Perry after 43 years The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH) August 14, 1873 Caroline Halloway searching for her sister Frances Austin St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO) August 28, 1884 Arthur Thomas searching for his aunt Delcie Graves, her husband Frederick Graves, and his uncle James Washington Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA) October 10, 1908 Fanny Strong searching for her parents Joe and Sallie and her siblings Sucky, Dollie, Rachel, Joseph, and Green or her former enslaver's family Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) May 13, 1907 Martha searching for her children Montgomery Daily Advertiser (Montgomery, AL) May 24, 1872 of 29
