Genealogy Chat

Oh I do feel for you!!! I have Williams, Evans, Hughes and Ellis - how do you decide WHICH one is yours?!! I've managed to locate most of them but I still have lots of question marks further back when it is not clear whether the Birth was in Llandrillo or Llandrillo yn Rhos - two distinct places, one near to where they lived and one much further away. Of course one chooses the nearer one,only to find another branch lived nearer the other place! Has anyone actually invented a Time Machine yet?! If you hear of it, do let me know!!!!!!! Hazel

No Michael - That's only 'Joan's advice ' (Joan's = Jones ???)- Pardon the pun - I'm feeling really hot and frazzled.!!! The advice though, stands - I recently found a John Roberts in Wales!!! - There are millions of them and I had literally been in and out of the houses of every one on every census - I eventually found him under 'KOBERTS' SSSooo, - there is ALWAYS hope. Dea x

Well, I understand. My husband's Welsh side has half the surnames my English lot has. Not content with limiting their surnames, they like to choose the same names as first names, so we have Evan Evans, Thomas Thomas and William Williams, as well as Evan Williams, William Evans, Thomas Evans, Thomas Williams and William Thomas. All the women are either Mary or Margaret or Jennet, which is invariably transcribed as Janet. I've actually found a whole street of Thomas families in Maesteg on the census with no idea whether any or all of them are related! nell

... and Jones. With the arrival of the latest cert (thanks Carmarthen RO for succeeding where the GRO failed, and taking about a quarter of the time, and to OC for the tip of using local ROs), I have just unearthed my fourth bunch of Joneses. Is it any wonder my lot are difficult to trace? My gg-grandfather was a Jones, his mother's maiden name was Jones, he married a Jones and their son married someone whose mother's maiden name was Jones. Then, just for variety, there's the Evanses...