It would be nice to know what the questions are to the answers that are being posted without going on a search mission.

I agree Marvalene, knowing the question might make the answer more understandable. Connie Marvalene wrote: > It would be nice to know what the questions are to the answers that are being posted without going on a search mission. > > ==== RUSSELL Mailing List ==== > CHECK OUT THIS RUSSELL RESEARCH PAGE: > Russell Message Boards--------- > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/rus/Russell > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL, PELTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/76.79.89.106.1 Message Board Post: I have an Ernest B. Russell, but he was born in 1875 in New York state. I do know that some family members came to CA.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/2986.1 Message Board Post: then what?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/246.898.1 Message Board Post: william russell 1848 -1926

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/76.79.89.106 Message Board Post: i have a great grandfather ernest b. russell in ohio b.1884

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/450.749.757.958.978.980 Message Board Post: i have a william russell came from egland in 1716 and married mary hebley in 1730

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell, Pugh Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3803 Message Board Post: Looking for information on John Sherman Russell & Mary Caroline (Molly) Pugh, married in Covington, Ind. on Aug. 24, 1890. Three children: Rolland, Chauncey, female. Moved to West Virginia in the 1900's. Any known relatives would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL, BONE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3802 Message Board Post: I am seeking any information in the following family. Burly John Bone, b: 1880-1890 Mildred Russell, b: 1880-1890 Children: 1. Bessie Bone, married a Colburn 2. Fern Bone, married a Smith 3. Lois Bone, married a Alton 4. Edith Bone, married a Cripe 5. Orville Russell Bone, married Elva Cleo Stone They lived in Fayette County, Illinois. Burly and Mildred are buried there in the McInturff Cemetery. Your help is very appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3801 Message Board Post: Scott D. Russell lived in Ohio County WV in 1900 to 1935? Married 1) Caroline then 2) Mary Getsinger. Moved to New Rochelle NY in 1940's and until his death sometime in the 1960's.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL, BRILEY, DRENNON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3800 Message Board Post: Robert RUSSELL married Nancy DRENNON BRILEY in 1899, at Perry County, Tennessee. They had no children. Any information on this couple would be greatly appreciated!

I hope users of this list realize that queries to this list are filed and archived and will be used for years to come. Therefore: It is important to have future researchers in mind when you write. If you want a reply years later, you might want to include an address or be sure to keep the same email address or keep your data on World Connect at Rootsweb with current email address. Include dates or approximate dates and locations whenever possible--without that everything is almost useless. Russell is a HUGE surname. Not all Russells are related or even come from the same country. There are French and German and Caribbean Russells etc. Some write as if we should all know a fellow Russell just by their first name. Good luck. There are literally millions of John, William, and Mary Russells. You MUST have approximate date and location to have any hope of making contact. Attach the spouse and any children's names to anything you send--anything to add a uniqueness to your Russell. Dead people fade into history. Birth, death, marriage date, offspring and LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION become all that remains of them. With dates and location, one has hope of finding them in RECORDS. Genealogy is not a hobby of just getting information from willing strangers. That method can only be a start a helpful hint, after that it is RECORDS, PROOFS, RESEARCH, DOCUMENTATION. I really question attaching the very informal Genforum entries to this list. Do we really want to archive for posterity, "Hi, I think you are right." "My grandmother has a cousin named John Russell. Do you know a John Russell." I hang onto to this list and try to add information as I have it especially for the Archives, but I go weeks just deleting conversations with no specifics. Maybe I am exaggerating but you get the point. The more we use the net for genealogy, the more lazy it all seems. People looking for information--not having done even the most basic things like census lookups to try to pin point their families. People with no idea about estimating the birthdates of their grandparents and grandparents. These types of users are cluttering up the various lists with very little useful information. I don't mean to sound snobby, but as far as I am concerned genealogy is a detail oriented hobby that takes serious thoughtfulness and planning. One digs and documents and tries to prove and solve a never ending chain of riddles. I love helping people and I have certainly been helped, but I don't want to be involved with just lackadaisical types who do not seem to really understand research methods at all or at least want to learn them. I have given information I had worked hard on and spent money on only to later find it written up on the net by the receiver as their heroic work, with errors I might add. One way to honor another's work is to include the donor's name in your footnotes and sources. You do know what those are, don't you? I don't mean to sound grumpy. But I do get frustrated and more and more I find the various family list I use to be time wasters. I have unsubscribed to many as a waste of my time. I find everywhere that the original serious genealogists contributors are more and more silent on most of the lists. People used to send in lots of wills, and data to lists. Now is it more and more just queries, many of which lack enough basics to be very helpful. Besides just queries I think we could share methods and approaches and how to's on these lists. Instead of just asking for your great grandmother, Mary Russell, you might tell us all that you have done to find her. I may not know any data on her, but I would certainly be willing to make suggestions on what else you could do. So please ask how to questions. Please input known data for the idea that this list becomes an archive for future researchers. Please make a point of pausing and including HOW you know a thing too. Every time you input a date or fact into your data, stop and put HOW you know that or at least the fact that you have no source and it is just undocumented stuff you got off the net. Also we are getting more and more queries from the UK and Australia. This is great, but we need now to put USA or UK or AUS in front of a query. I need the UK people to add UK to their entries because I often do not at first recognize the counties and locations in Great Britain and I am sure the Brits and Australians would appreciate us using USA too. We are all receiving a lot of things to read and any help in eliminating reading things that can have no relevance to each other helps to cut down what we have to peruse. Anyway my thoughts. Sorry for any offense taken, but not for trying to improve these lists.. Tom --

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3799 Message Board Post: My gr. gr. grandfather Ira Russell was born in Vt. Birth date is unknown. He was married to "Anstridt" or "Anstrill". Together they had six children: Ira, Solomon, Archilles (sp?), Sylvester, Mersel (sp?) and Cynthia. Ira (the son) went on to marry Francis Millard. Together they had six children: Nellie, Laura, Charles, Cortes, Lottie and Ernest. Ernest was my grandfather. If anyone out there has any connection to any of these RUSSELLs I'd love to hear from you. I'd like to know how to REALLY spell those names! And I'd love to know more about Ira (Sr.). Willing to share what I have so far.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3549.5.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes That's The Place!!!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/1757.1.1 Message Board Post: What does this family named Wright have to do with the Russells?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell/Rousell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3549.5.1 Message Board Post: I have Russells in Pontypool, Wales, is that the town you are looking for?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rousell/Russell/Harvey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3177.3450.3437.2 Message Board Post: Looking for information on Russell/Rousell/Rouzel family from Pontypool, Monmouthshire. I have Thomas born about 1882 father Edward, mother Caroline. Thomas married an Amelia Harvey. Anyone come across them in their research?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3798 Message Board Post: Russell, Virginia Joy, daughter of Don R. and Willie (Camp) Russell,b.7-2-1917, probably in Ardmore, Okla., Seeking info on her or any of her family. Sue Teeter

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/1757.1 Message Board Post: I have an Absalom Wright, probably born in VA around 1795. He moved to the Atlanta, GA area in 1825, from Spartanburg, SC. He then moved to Miss, and probably died somewhere in GA. His son, William Washington Wright is my ggggrfa. If you have any info on Absalom, please share it.Thanks. Jerry Wright

Hi Tom, I'm looking or information about my gggrandfather, Joseph K. Russell. He resided in Johnson County Ill., also in southern Illinois. He served in the Civil War. He was married to Amanda Felt. Their daughter, Mary Caroline Russell was my great grandmother. Any information you find about them would be greatly appreciated. I have had no luck in determining Joseph's birth date or parents names. Thanks so much, Jennifer Roberts ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Rea" <tomikin@earthlink.net> To: <RUSSELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 3:51 PM Subject: [RUSSELL-L] Russells, Madison Co., IL > My research for my elusive ancestor, Andrew Russell, b. KY about > 1795, father of my great grandmother, Mary Ann Russell, b. 1832, St. > Louis, MO has taken me to Andrew Russell died 1835, Madison Co., MO, > guardianship files for daughter born between 1832 and 1837, Mary A. > I am awaiting copies of the probate files. This Andrew bought 40 > acres in Madison Co., IL and it is adjoined by 40 acres of Jane > Russell. > > St. Louis and Madison Co., IL seem to have very fluid borders in that > Madison Co. is just across the river to St. Louis, etc. There were > numerous Russells in both locations. Many of the land purchases in > Madison Co. were made from people described in the records as living > in St. Louis. > > I am interested in any and all Russells in St. Louis and Madison Co., > IL. Anyone else out there searching Russells in this area? > > I am doing a thorough census search of the area and will begin > posting census data to this list. I post data to this list because > it will then be stored and searchable later to others. Good idea to > all who are holding data. Please share with list. > > Russells, being very numerous and from diverse origins, can be a very > difficult surname to deal with. Sharing data helps to untangle the > enormous mess. > > One practice I have in research is that I create a file just for a > certain surname I am working on in my genealogical program. I put in > everybody and every scrap of information I find on a surname in a > location I am researching. Later on I can often find relationships > and with a few key strokes individuals and couples are directed to > families. This blanket approach has proven very useful. > > When I first began genealogy years ago I doggedly searched and > recorded only direct ancestors only to realize in time the importance > of searching all the lines and connections. Often the collateral > lines will have data one needs for figuring out the ancestor line. > Tom > -- > > > ==== RUSSELL Mailing List ==== > There is also a Russell-UK-List for finding your ancestors in the UK > to subscribe send an email to Russell-UK-L-request@rootsweb.com > Put Subscribe in the subject line and Subscribe in the message > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >