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Anyone into this? What is the name of the organization in the UK that keeps track of everything and produces family trees?
 
So I am back to about 1710 on my side and the 1780s on my wife's. She is 6th generation Canadian on her father's side which is rare.
 
I went into my family tree, they gave me a bunch of bananas.

The answer (I think) you are looking for is:

Ancestry.com

There are several other sources of info for family lineage etc. Some deal with census reports in the UK and similar documents and these generally (I think) go back to around 1800 when the first census's took place. I was once told that if you can go back before 1800 with you family name, then you have a good chance of going much further. Somerset House is a good source of data. http://www.vitalcertificates.co.uk/

The main problems for certain families are that if you have a Jewish background, then because of the problems in Europe during the 2nd world war, many Jewish people changed their names for obvious reasons. If otherwise (for example) you belonged to a family in Wales, your family may have objected to an English imposed census and many changed their names to a Welsh version of 'Joe Bloggs' which was the name 'Jenkins' and if you have that name, it may be impossible to trace your geneaology.

My daughter has drawn up our family tree and has been the one in our family who has the most interest but I've only got involved on the fringes of it. She used Ancestry.com mainly plus info from older members of the family.
 
my wife is an ancestor of the Virginia Dare - the first "white" person to be born to english parents on american soil. Love stuff like this.
 
My mum did some research once upon a time about her side of the family. I can't think anything off the top of my head that she found out that was too interesting/shocking that we didn't already know. She found out some stuff about her uncle who died in WWII, but we obviously already knew about him through her dad and other uncle. His name is on our local war memorial which I think is pretty interesting.
 
My father was born in Neath. Had a really larcenous Uncle that made some headlines. There aren't that many surnames that were prevalent in Wales prior to 1850 and it makes tracing extremely hard.

My mother's father was with the BEF and lucky enough to be on one of the last boats out of Dunkirk during WWII. Went back over on D-Day +6.

I am using Ancestry.ca and it is a family group effort that I am organizing. My maternal grandfather had a tree produced around 1980. We can't find it anywhere. We know he paid quite a bit to have it put together and it went back to the early 1400s.

Interesting challenge and I am still trying to figure out the best approach to the research.
 
Hi '80'. Just been speaking to my sister in law, who worked in West Glamorgan CC, in Neath. She says that she had friends who tried to trace their lineage and used records from the County Records office based in Swansea as Neath comes under the City of Swansea Records Office. It may also be useful to to consult the 'Cambrian Newspaper' which was a Swansea based newspaper and back issues are now held in Cardiff Library. It may be possible to examine newspaper records and trawl them electronically. We found out a lot about our house in Caerphilly, which was built back in the 1740's from, 'The Cambrian'. Births, marriages, deaths etc may turn up something too.
 
Thank you very much Welsh. :14: That is very useful.

One of the dead ends I hit was someone born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1866. Any idea if that falls under the same jurisdiction?
 
80deg16minW - 17/4/2014 18:36

Thank you very much Welsh. :14: That is very useful.

One of the dead ends I hit was someone born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1866. Any idea if that falls under the same jurisdiction?
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Just checked again with my sister in law who now lives in Llanelli and she says Carmarthen County Council is the records office that you need for Llanelli.

You're welcome!

 
This is all VERY international and cosmopolitan. I'm sending stuff to '80' who's in Canada about his Welsh forebears and at the moment I'm in Maryland, USA, but I'm from Caerphilly, near Cardiff. I'm off, I'm getting giddy!

Anyway, the cheeky sods told me I had four fathers!
 
Hey Welshtel. Thank you very much for your help. I just tracked down my great great grandfather's birth certificate..

Your direction is very much appreciated.
 
Hey WelshtTel....any idea how I could find a copy of this?

Hanes Eglwys y Methodistiad Calfiniaidd yn Hermon, Dowlais
 
80deg16minW - 3/7/2014 19:39

Hey WelshtTel....any idea how I could find a copy of this?

Hanes Eglwys y Methodistiad Calfiniaidd yn Hermon, Dowlais
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Sorry '80' haven't been looking at this thread for a while. Eglwys y Methostiad Calfiniadd, is, I think you will find, a Calvinistic Methodist Church and is in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. I'm not aware of another 'Dowlais'. If you e'mail the town council at Merthyr and explain your situation, they might well be able to help put you in touch with the Minister etc, who will no doubt help you. 'Hanes' is 'history' and they may well have a local history document of, I think, 'Hermon Chapel'.

Sorry for the delay mate, just seen this post.
 
I think I am related to Ben Davies. I wonder if he could get me some decent tickets?
 
Using the old nepotism already? WHY NOT? It's what family's for.
Can he get me any tickets? I'm Welsh with an Irish name.
 
Anyone live in Wisbech? I was wondering if there is a source for birth, marriage, death documents prior to 1837?
 
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