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Thank you once again! I always thought that Owain became Owen, which is a frequent name in my collateral line, as is Johns (I'm from VA). My husband's dark coloring comes from his mother, who was a Dine, a name so far associated with the English. I have set aside the genealogy for awhile so that I can finish school, but I look forward to going back to it. My dear husband points out that I have a very bland genealogy (all A/S) but he obviously has interesting genes from somewhere!

Do you live in Wales now? My former finance was from Cardiff and he was still continuing to have difficulties because the building housing his birth certificate burned down years ago.

I'm in Idaho right now. I paid the cost of moving my family from San Diego, CA to Chubbuck, ID in December 2000. That pretty much drained my resources for vacation time in Wales for a bit. My customer in San Diego closed the business yesterday, so my job right now is lining up more work to keep the bills paid.

The vacations I've taken to Wales and contacts made have greatly improved my ability to find the right information with minimal effort. My two oldest sons will be headed back to college in the fall, so they have eliminated any financial resources for a vacation this year too.

If you can't afford to make the trip to the National Library in Aberyswyth, there are many reputable geneologists who can perform specific research on your behalf at the library. My friends in Cwmystwyth arranged quite a nice surprise on one of our visits. They located the actual paper document that transferred parental custody of my great grandfather and his two sisters to their uncle in Llanfihangel y Creuddyn in 1851. That document became a lead that showed that most of the family had come from that village. I had been on a few "wild goose chases" in adjacent villages with no prior success. Many of the original documents are archived in Aberystwyth. The many chapels around the country have consolidated their individual records at the national archive.