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"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.

I found a couple cousins still living around Pontrhydygroes. One runs a garage and hauling business. The other is retired and lives a short distance away. We have a common ancestor in a home built in 1777. That's my starting point to resume the search backwards on the next trip.