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Thanks for the reference. I do most of my research in person. I can read and speak Welsh sufficiently to read the headstones and the old church records. American Airlines lost my luggage on the last trip in April 1999. That delayed and derailed the whole point of the trip. My wife and I arrived at Heathrow at 9:30 AM Saturday morning and didn't see our luggage until the following Tuesday at 5:30 PM. We had to be back in London at the airport Thursday night.

One of my dreams is to visit Wales and do my research there. When I began researching my Grandmother's early years in Wales, I was told that Welsh genealogy is the hardest to trace.

However, I have been relatively successful, at least in filling in many details of my family's Welsh heritage to around 1810. Before that date, I either have to pay someone, spend a lot of time at an LDS Family History library or fly over there myself.

Still it has been a challenging search because I'm researching one of the most common Welsh family surnames.

"American Airlines lost my luggage on the last trip in April 1999. That delayed and derailed the whole point of the trip. My wife and I arrived at Heathrow at 9:30 AM Saturday morning and didn't see our luggage until the following Tuesday at 5:30 PM. We had to be back in London at the airport Thursday night."

Oh that is terrible! I can only dream of what it would be like to visit. I have at least one living cousin by marriage still in Wales. I'm sure there are many more, because my Grandmother was third oldest from a very large family. She and her younger sister were the only ones from that branch of my family to move to the United States.

By the way, I found Welsh Family History Archives recommended on one of the legitimate Welsh historian sites. The owner of WFHA charges nothing for people to list on his site. He supports himself as a photographer and said that he wanted to do something nice for his adopted homeland Wales. His site is a rarity in the genealogy circles.