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/3821.2.1 Message Board Post: Mindy, Thank you so much for your reply. Hopefully something may click. Our William Russell would be my gggrandfather. We found his name in an 1880 census in MI, he was listed as 36, b. PA, father PA, mother NJ. He wasn't there in 1870, so not sure where he was. 1890, the records are gone, by 1900 the wife (Sarah) is a widow. We have tried to get death records...but none are listed - county or state! It's like he just appeared, then is gone! I am waiting for Ancestry.com to finish indexing the 1860 and 1870 census's then maybe he will turn up on a search. That's about all we know about him.- nothing on parents or siblings... Thanks again! Ruth :)