You can find the slave owner from researching the slave schedules . . Slave schedules do not prove slave owner . Many small farm owners never owned slaves . . They rented or leased slaves when they needed them, such as at harvest time. The slave schedules listed where the slave resided, not the owner.
Slave schedules are highly over-rated.
Where ancestor s name came from . . Most slaves did not take the surname of the last slaveowner. County history see if the ancestor is mentioned 2. 3,500 interviews with former slaves . . Savings Co . .