Records of James Donn on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of James Donn 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.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Donn and the Donn Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Donn 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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 Donn family tree.

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Donn Family Tree 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.

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Donn 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.

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Miscellaneous Donn Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on James Donn. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called James Donn

James Donn

James Donn (1758–1813) was an English botanist and gardener. He was trained by William Aiton, a protege of Sir Joseph Banks and was Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, from 1790 until his death. His most important work was Hortus Cantabrigiensis, first published in 1796 but with several later, much expanded, editions. It carried on past his death until 1845.

A copy was given to the Library of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University in 1895.

He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1812.

A memorial to James Donn, exists on St Edward the Martyr's church in Cambridge. A grandson was the English composer William Sterndale Bennett.

Source: James Donn, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Donn

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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