Records of Daniel Russell on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Daniel Russell in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

A Moment of your Time Please...

In order to try and help fund this website, I've tried producing some music. Click the banner below to listen to my latest album on your favourite streaming service. If you like it, please consider adding your favourite songs to a playlist!

Play music by Gracie James
Country Collection
Globe Ancestry.com Global records search results for Daniel Russell.
USA Ancestry.com US records search results for Daniel Russell.
UK Ancestry.co.uk UK records search results for Daniel Russell.
Canada Ancestry.ca Canadian records search results for Daniel Russell.
Australia Ancestry.com.au Australian records search results for Daniel Russell.

DNA

Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Russell ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!

Unlock your DNAHave you reached a brick wall in your Russell Tree?

Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Daniel Russell and the Russell Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Russell Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Russell family tree.

Study Parish Records for Daniel Russell at Find My Past.

Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Daniel Russell using the FreeBMD database.

Look at Genealogy BankGenealogy Bank for Daniel Russell records.

Investigate MyHeritage for Daniel Russell information.

Explore the LDS Database for records about Daniel Russell.

Research the Russell surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Russell Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 52348 people with the Russell surname in the UK? Russell is now ranked number 77 for popularity in the UK.

Russell Family History Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Daniel Russell.

Study MyTrees for information on the Russell family and people looking to contact living Russell relations.

Investigate One Great Family for Russell records submitted by people who are already researching the Russell Family Tree.

Find Daniel Russell from Ireland on findmypast.ie

Russell Forums

There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.

Research the Russell surname using Genealogy.com forums .

ukDid you know that there are currently 258251 people with the Russell surname in the USA? Russell is ranked number 74 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Russell Databases

Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Daniel Russell. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

Comments

Looking for information on a Daniel Russell in your family tree? Why not post a question here -

Some Famous People called Daniel Russell

Daniel Lindsay Russell

Daniel Lindsay Russell Jr. (August 7, 1845 – May 14, 1908) was the 49th Governor of North Carolina, serving from 1897 to 1901. An attorney, judge, and politician, he had also been elected as state representative and to the United States Congress, serving 1879–1881. Although he fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Russell and his father were both Unionists. After the war, Russell joined the Republican Party in North Carolina, which was an unusual affiliation for one of the planter class. In the postwar period he served as a state judge, as well as in the state and national legislatures.

Elected on a fusionist ticket in 1896, a collaboration between Republicans and Populists that was victorious over the Democrats, Russell was the first Republican elected as governor in North Carolina since the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877. During his term, he approved legislation to extend the franchise by reducing the property requirement; it benefited the white majority in the state as well as blacks.

To prevent such a political coalition from being successful again, in the 1898 elections Democrats conducted a campaign of fear, stressing white supremacy, and regained power in the state legislature. Democrats in the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, which took place in the largest city, overthrew the elected, biracial government headed by a white mayor and majority white council, beginning two days after the election. Russell's efforts to suppress the white riot were unsuccessful, and mobs attacked black neighborhoods, driving so many blacks permanently from the city that it became majority white.

The following year Democrats in the state legislature passed a new constitution over Russell's opposition and without submitting it to voters. It disfranchised nearly all blacks and many poor whites. As a result, Russell was the last Republican elected as governor in this state until 1973.

Source: Daniel Lindsay Russell, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia