Where does the Black surname come from?

A documented family surname appearing throughout the public record, traced here through census, vital, and cemetery records.

How far back does the Black family tree go?

The documented line here reaches back to 1764. Most Black lines can be traced to the end of the surviving public record.

Are living Black family members listed here?

No. Deceased ancestors only, from public records. Living people are excluded for privacy.

Is this my Black family?

If a name here matches your family, it may well be. A full documented build confirms exactly how your line connects.

Black Family History, Genealogy & Ancestry

Documented families

Black families we’ve reconstructed

Real Black family groups pieced together from the public record — parents, spouse, and children, each with the source that proves it. Recognize your line? Tap a family and we’ll start your documented tree from it.

Peter Blackd. 1900

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

parentsPeter Black & Mary Hughes

Peter Black ⚭ Catherine Felgar (m. 9 Mar 1850)

childrenSamuel E. Black · Isaac F. Black · Henry E. Black · Jasper A. Black · Peter A. Black · Mary L. Black · Emma Black · Charles B. Black · Cora Black

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T. H. Blackb. 1830

Guernsey County, Ohio

T. H. Black ⚭ Ellen George

childrenMary R. Black · William S. Black · Milton G. Black · Joseph R. Black · Ida E. Black · Alvin G. Black · Jesse S. Black

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Peter Blackdate unknown

Pennsylvania → Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

Peter Black ⚭ Mary Hughes

childrenIsaac Black · Sarah Black · Hannah Black · Lydia Black · Peter Black

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Arthur Blackd. 1891

Lexington, Kentucky → Goshen township, Muscatine County, Iowa

Arthur Black ⚭ Adaline Anderson

childrenMarcellus Black · James C. Black · George W. Black · Margaret J. Black

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Catherine R. Blackd. 1906

Pennsylvania → Dubuque County, Iowa

Catherine R. Black ⚭ William R. Tibbals

childrenWilliam O. Tibbals · Catherine M. Tibbals

History of Dubuque County, Iowa (1911)

Peter Blackb. 1828

Champaign County, Ohio

parentsPeter Black

Peter Black

childrenCharles B. Black

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Eliza Blackdate unknown

Eliza Black ⚭ Joseph Gardner

childrenWilliam B. Gardner

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James Blackb. 1798

Clark County, Kentucky

parentsCaptain Black & Jane Crockett

James Black ⚭ Caroline Culbertson

Samuel E. Blackb. 1851

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

parentsPeter Black & Catherine Felgar

Samuel E. Black ⚭ Laura G. Stokes (m. 8 Sep 1890)

Isaac F. Blackb. 1853

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

parentsPeter Black & Catherine Felgar

Isaac F. Black ⚭ Eliza Corbett (m. 2 Jan 1876)

James C. Blackb. 1855

Goshen township, Muscatine County, Iowa

parentsArthur Black & Adaline Anderson

James C. Black

Henry E. Blackb. 1856

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

parentsPeter Black & Catherine Felgar

Henry E. Black ⚭ Jennie Swisher

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The documented line

Black ancestors in the record

Deceased Black ancestors, earliest first. Living family members are deliberately omitted.

Peter Black was born in 1828 — of fighting age when the Civil War draft came. Did he go? The record can tell you. Trace this line →

Hannah Black

1764 – 1823

Pennsylvania

m. David Mitchell

James Black

b. 1798

Clark County, Kentucky

m. Caroline Culbertson

Peter Black

b. 1828

Champaign County, Ohio

T. H. Black

b. 1830

Guernsey County, Ohio

m. Ellen George

Samuel E. Black

b. 1851

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

m. Laura G. Stokes (m. 8 Sep 1890)

Isaac F. Black

b. 1853

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

m. Eliza Corbett (m. 2 Jan 1876)

James C. Black

b. 1855

Goshen township, Muscatine County, Iowa

Henry E. Black

b. 1856

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

m. Jennie Swisher

Jasper A. Black

1858 – 1864

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

John Ee Black

1859 – 1937

Linn County, Iowa

Peter A. Black

b. 1861

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

m. Elsie Freeman

Bob Black

1862 – 1933

Sioux City

Mary L. Black

b. 1863

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

m. William Berry

Emma Black

1866 – 1891

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

m. Joseph Diltz (m. 1888)

Charles B. Black

b. 1868

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

Samuel Charles Black

1869 – 1921

Monticello

Cora Black

1871 – 1896

Wayne township, Champaign County, Ohio

Frank Black

1873 – 1966

Iowa

Lottie Black

1874 – 1966

Iowa

Susie Black

1874 – 1965

Iowa

Cora Black

1875 – 1965

Iowa

Emaline C Black

1876 – 1966

Iowa

Bessie Black

1877 – 1984

Iowa

Eva Black

1877 – 1966

Iowa

Charles Black

1878 – 1970

Iowa

Margaret T Black

1878 – 1966

Iowa

George Black

1878 – 1967

Iowa

Vernie Black

1879 – 1965

Iowa

Clara J Black

1879 – 1968

Iowa

Ira Black

1880 – 1968

Iowa

Viola Black

1880 – 1978

Iowa

Anna Black

1880 – 1969

Iowa

Annie M Black

1881 – 1969

Iowa

Harry Black

1881 – 1972

Iowa

Roy Black

1882 – 1961

Iowa

Maude Black

1882 – 1972

Iowa

Mary Black

1882 – 1972

Iowa

Fred Black

1882 – 1964

Iowa

William Black

1882 – 1966

Iowa

Mary Black

1882 – 1980

Iowa

John Black

1883 – 1964

Iowa

John Black

1883 – 1968

Iowa

Sylvia Black

1883 – 1962

Iowa

Oscar Black

1883 – 1968

Iowa

Elsie Black

1883 – 1971

Iowa

Clyde Black

1884 – 1982

Iowa

Olive Black

1884 – 1972

Iowa

Newton Black

1884 – 1971

Iowa

Francis Black

1884 – 1963

Iowa

Elmer Black

1884 – 1963

Iowa

Rolla Black

1884 – 1979

Iowa

Charlotte Black

1884 – 1968

Iowa

Sarah A Black

1884 – 1971

Iowa

James Black

1884 – 1965

Iowa

Glenn Black

1885 – 1978

Iowa

Esther Black

1885 – 1982

Iowa

Robert Black

1885 – 1976

Iowa

Charles Black

1885 – 1976

Iowa

Grace Black

1885 – 1981

Iowa

Isabelle Black

1886 – 1978

Iowa

Sam Black

1886 – 1976

Iowa

Bertha Black

1886 – 1975

Iowa

John Black

1886 – 1964

Iowa

Mamie Black

1886 – 1978

Iowa

Nell Black

1886 – 1985

Iowa

Virgil Black

1886 – 1972

Iowa

Myra Black

1886 – 1962

Iowa

Sadie Black

1886 – 1968

Iowa

Maimie Black

1886 – 1976

Iowa

Homer Black

1886 – 1974

Iowa

Myrtle Black

1887 – 1986

Iowa

Carl Black

1887 – 1976

Iowa

Curtis W Black

1887 – 1973

Iowa

Edith Black

1887 – 1972

Iowa

Jess Black

1887 – 1964

Iowa

Charles Black

1887 – 1964

Iowa

Tressa Black

1887 – 1973

Iowa

James Black

1887 – 1970

Iowa

Sarah Black

1887 – 1976

Iowa

Benjamin Black

1887 – 1986

Iowa

John Black

1887 – 1981

Iowa

Bertha Black

1887 – 1967

Iowa

Roy Black

1888 – 1974

Iowa

Earle Black

1888 – 1967

Iowa

Ralph Black

1888 – 1966

Iowa

Elizabeth Black

1888 – 1979

Iowa

Jessie Black

1888 – 1977

Iowa

Ora Black

1889 – 1976

Iowa

Mary Black

1889 – 1983

Iowa

Marie Black

1889 – 1985

Iowa

Louis Black

1889 – 1967

Iowa

James Black

1889 – 1979

Iowa

Virgil Black

1889 – 1969

Iowa

May Black

1889 – 1982

Iowa

Carol Black

1889 – 1981

Iowa

George Black

1889 – 1964

Iowa

Adah Black

1889 – 1988

Iowa

Benjamin Black

1889 – 1976

Iowa

William O Black

1890 – 1988

Iowa

Marcia Black

1890 – 1963

Iowa

Ethel Black

1890 – 1978

Iowa

Irving E Black

1890 – 1988

Iowa

Grace Black

1890 – 1979

Iowa

Jeanette Black

1890 – 1975

Iowa

Arthur Black

d. 1891

Lexington, Kentucky

m. Adaline Anderson

Wilmer Black

1891 – 1974

Iowa

Edna Black

1891 – 1975

Iowa

Robert Black

1891 – 1973

Iowa

George Black

1891 – 1973

Iowa

Clara Black

1891 – 1974

Iowa

Myrtle Black

1891 – 1975

Iowa

William Black

1891 – 1986

Iowa

Roy Black

1891 – 1965

Iowa

Grace I Black

1891 – 1990

Iowa

Edward Black

1891 – 1973

Iowa

Johnie Black

1891 – 1968

Iowa

Laura Black

1891 – 1986

Iowa

Mae Black

1891 – 1981

Iowa

Melissa R Black

1891 – 1973

Iowa

Floyd Black

1891 – 1978

Iowa

Eva Black

1891 – 1975

Iowa

Catherine Black

1892 – 1966

Iowa

Ralph Black

1892 – 1962

Iowa

Floyd Black

1892 – 1965

Iowa

Garry Black

1892 – 1969

Iowa

Effie Black

1892 – 1983

Iowa

James Black

1892 – 1976

Iowa

George Black

1892 – 1967

Iowa

Veda Black

1892 – 1977

Iowa

Homer Black

1892 – 1972

Iowa

Jannie Black

1892 – 1994

Iowa

Hazel Black

1892 – 1977

Iowa

Henry Black

1892 – 1969

Iowa

Guy Black

1892 – 1977

Iowa

Elmo Black

1892 – 1979

Iowa

Clara Black

1893 – 1973

Iowa

Mae Black

1893 – 1996

Iowa

Guy Black

1893 – 1963

Iowa

Mary Black

1893 – 1981

Iowa

Minnie Black

1893 – 1976

Iowa

Roy Black

1893 – 1968

Iowa

H Black

1893 – 1965

Iowa

Clyde Black

1893 – 1971

Iowa

Ora Black

1893 – 1980

Iowa

Ethel Black

1893 – 1977

Iowa

Ethel Black

1893 – 1978

Iowa

Myrtle Black

1893 – 1985

Iowa

Homer Black

1893 – 1989

Iowa

Nan Black

1893 – 1969

Iowa

William Black

1894 – 1976

Iowa

Perry Black

1894 – 1976

Iowa

Hazel Black

1894 – 1966

Iowa

Andrew Black

1894 – 1986

Iowa

Frank Black

1894 – 1967

Iowa

Sarah Black

1894 – 1979

Iowa

John Black

1894 – 1977

Iowa

Thomasetta Black

1894 – 1993

Iowa

Mabel E Black

1894 – 1996

Iowa

Carl Black

1894 – 1976

Iowa

Oscar Black

1894 – 1965

Iowa

Grace Black

1894 – 1976

Iowa

Fred Black

1894 – 1978

Iowa

Earl Black

1894 – 1982

Iowa

Mattie M Black

1894 – 1990

Iowa

Mary Black

1894 – 1980

Iowa

Arthur Black

1895 – 1985

Iowa

Elvin J Black

1895 – 1988

Iowa

Gracie Black

1895 – 1972

Iowa

Marie Black

1895 – 1990

Iowa

Samuel Black

1895 – 1968

Iowa

Gladys Black

1895 – 1982

Iowa

Alma K Black

1895 – 1989

Iowa

Eva Black

1895 – 1979

Iowa

Goldie Black

1895 – 1980

Iowa

Harry Black

1895 – 1981

Iowa

Kathryn B Black

1895 – 1990

Iowa

Merritt Black

1895 – 1967

Iowa

Clarice Black

1895 – 1968

Iowa

Lyle Black

1895 – 1974

Iowa

Verne R Black

1895 – 1995

Iowa

Clarence Black

1896 – 1975

Iowa

Hazel M Black

1896 – 1993

Iowa

Floyd Black

1896 – 1975

Iowa

Minnie Black

1896 – 1966

Iowa

Guy Black

1896 – 1982

Iowa

Gladys Black

1896 – 1987

Iowa

Golda Black

1896 – 1986

Iowa

John Black

1896 – 1985

Iowa

Ernest Black

1896 – 1964

Iowa

John Black

1896 – 1979

Iowa

Bert Black

1896 – 1980

Iowa

John Black

1896 – 1967

Iowa

Roy Black

1896 – 1985

Iowa

Irene Black

1896 – 1979

Iowa

John Black

1896 – 1975

Iowa

Eugene Black

1896 – 1977

Iowa

Maude Black

1896 – 1984

Iowa

Charles Black

1896 – 1980

Iowa

Floyd Black

1896 – 1987

Iowa

Clarence Black

1896 – 1983

Iowa

Etta L Black

1896 – 1992

Iowa

Cecile Black

1896 – 1983

Iowa

Adeneau Black

1897 – 1970

Iowa

Raymond Black

1897 – 1979

Iowa

Anna F Black

1897 – 1990

Iowa

Ella M Black

1897 – 1966

Iowa

Oscar Black

1897 – 1964

Iowa

Claude Black

1897 – 1981

Iowa

Bonnie Black

1897 – 1984

Iowa

Margaret J Black

1897 – 1993

Iowa

Joshua Black

1897 – 1975

Iowa

Malcolm Black

1897 – 1971

Iowa

Gertrude W Black

1897 – 1988

Iowa

Frieda Black

1897 – 1970

Iowa

George Black

1897 – 1971

Iowa

Carl Black

1897 – 1967

Iowa

Raymond Black

1897 – 1973

Iowa

Nettie Black

1897 – 1990

Iowa

Lloyd Black

1898 – 1966

Iowa

Oscar Black

1898 – 1984

Iowa

Cecil Black

1898 – 1976

Iowa

Lelah Black

1898 – 1981

Iowa

Florence Black

1898 – 1972

Iowa

Gertrude Black

1898 – 1978

Iowa

Ann Black

1898 – 1990

Iowa

Vera Black

1898 – 1977

Iowa

Cecil Black

1898 – 1975

Iowa

Pearl Black

1898 – 1974

Iowa

Warren Black

1898 – 1986

Iowa

Theodore Black

1898 – 1973

Iowa

Earl Black

1898 – 1972

Iowa

Rufer Black

1898 – 1980

Iowa

Mable F Black

1898 – 1995

Iowa

Sadie Black

1898 – 1976

Iowa

Thurman Black

1898 – 1972

Iowa

Carl Black

1898 – 1980

Iowa

Harold Black

1899 – 1967

Iowa

Teressa Black

1899 – 1975

Iowa

Heman Black

1899 – 1981

Iowa

Harriet M Black

1899 – 1988

Iowa

Lena Black

1899 – 1970

Iowa

Ray Black

1899 – 1964

Iowa

Edwin Black

1899 – 1971

Iowa

Lillian A Black

1899 – 1968

Iowa

Jay L Black

1899 – 1996

Iowa

Jessa Black

1899 – 1985

Iowa

Yvetta Black

1899 – 1990

Iowa

Lester Black

1899 – 1989

Iowa

Louise L Black

1899 – 1994

Iowa

Alice Black

1899 – 1980

Iowa

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