Find Ancestors

I believe you did some searching in this early thread of mine - http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1277590

I will provide a marriage which will possibly create leads - Thomas Llewellyn married Catherine Jenkin on 28 March 1818 in Neath, Wales.

care to give more details - we might strike lucky for you :-)

I have already created a thread about a certain lineage already but never had much confirmation from it. Especially how the names were so common "JENKIN"

I'm Welsh, paternal line Williams, but with the help of other family members have got back to the late 1700s - care to say who you are looking for in case we are able to find something?

Hi Owen, I have recently found these sites helpful, there is another thread on here somewhere with a whole page of Irish genealogy links, some free, some pay - I know from experience how difficult Ireland is to research into, but every little bit helps ;)

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

Tracing Welsh ancestry would be much easier than for us with Northern Ireland.
Even being in United Kingdom and Ireland there is little information to assist in our efforts to trace back.ancestry. There is even less in GR. :-( :-( :-(

Welsh lineage has been a brick wall for my research for many years, until someone pointed out that they often inverted surnames and first names - my gg grandfather was an Owen Pierce, but it turns out his father was one Pierce Owen - this makes tracing lineage as difficult as doing it in place like Sweden, where they used the father's first name as a surname by adding 'son' to the end of it, so John Peterson, would have a son with a surname of Johnson. Trying looking at the first names you know to see if they could conceivably have been used as surnames, then try searching those. Hope it helps ;)

Do you think it is more difficult when tracing Welsh Genealogy past 1800?
Another researcher, researched the Welsh lineage of my family back to 1760s but it is hard to go further because their are people with the same names born in the same years. I would like to go as far as I have with my English side but being that I am Welsh and born in Wales then I would really want to get into my Welsh Lineage more.. Does anyone else find it difficult?