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Guestbook Entries - Volume 4 (2000)


Read what people were saying about my website in 2000.

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This volume is complete only up to 3 Mar 2000; the remaining entries for 2000 have sadly been lost.


Name: Hayley Newman
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Basildon, Essex
Time: 2000-03-03 14:18:00
Comments: Thought I would try and find out about my family history
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Name: David J Harris
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Ontario,Canada
Time: 2000-03-03 04:43:43
Comments: Have enjoyed browsing your website on several occasions. I have been an amateur genealogist for 40yrs (Glam FHS etc). My grandfather John Harris PhC, MPS 1874-1964 was pharmaceutical chemist in Ystradgynlais. The Valley paintings brought back happy memories of walking up the Varteg. Also enjoyed the French scenes.
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Name: Michael J. Morgan
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: USA
Time: 2000-03-03 00:52:01
Comments: Looking for any ancestors of Dr. Alfred C. Morgan, New Hartford, NY. served as an Officer 1862 U.S. Civil War.
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Name: Laurence W. Price
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Bremerton, WA USA
Time: 2000-02-29 04:44:15
Comments: The Price Family Genealogy is made up of five basic ancestors--all from Wales. Glynns, Jones's, Pittsfords, Prices and Powells. Thomas Price came to USA in 1821 from Hay (Hay-on-Wye) .
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Name: David Owen
Website:
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Louisville Kentucky
Time: 2000-02-29 01:14:38
Comments: The friend is my brother Ernest Owen of Annandale VA, who is the true family historian. Just laid our mother to rest in Welsh Hills Cemetery, Granville Ohio, The Rev. Gwyneth Jones Mudd officiating. Lots of Owens in KY, Owensboro, Owenton and Owen County. I think it hard to research family in Wales, there seem to be so few names shared by so many people!
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Name: Barbara Phillips Ellis
Website:
Referred by: AOL
From: Greeley, Colorado USA
Time: 2000-02-28 17:32:35
Comments: Thanks--your help to all through the CMN-FHS is great.
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Name: L. MORRIS JORDAN
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: WASHINGTON STATE
Time: 2000-02-26 18:48:35
Comments: I AM SEARCHING FOR WILLIAM MORRIS BORN ABT 1600 IN WALES AND DIED ABT 1649/50. ANY INFO WOULD BE APPRECIATED. WARMEST REGARDS, L. MORRIS JORDAN
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Name: Alfred Wayne Vaughan
Website:
Referred by: Lycos
From: Dallas, Texas U.S.A.
Time: 2000-02-25 22:17:04
Comments: tying to find information about family history, I know the Vaughan's come from Wales to America, just not sure of when and where.
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Name: Lynn Neill
Website:
Referred by: NewsGroups
From: Salem, Oregon, USA
Time: 2000-02-25 20:32:41
Comments: Love this site. Found you through a message on the Glamorgan rootsweb list.
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Name: George Powell
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: USA
Time: 2000-02-24 00:16:21
Comments: Just dropped in looking for some of my ancestors. It seems to be of some unusual importance to me. Have a good evening George Powell
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Name: Jackie
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From:
Time: 2000-02-23 15:10:49
Comments: Some of your pictures on the "images of wales" are not working
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Name: Dan Black
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
Time: 2000-02-22 16:56:45
Comments: Very pleasant web site format I enjoyed it and will return. Dan Black
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Name: Don Hughes
Website: Don Hughes
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Sarasota Florida by way of Cwm and Tredegar
Time: 2000-02-22 14:20:44
Comments: What a WONDERFUL site!! Welsh of the world should ALL find this site!! Now if a long lost relative appears it would be perfect....Diolch Ynfawr for you work John!!!
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Name: John D. Johnson
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Charlestown, RI, USA
Time: 2000-02-21 17:11:52
Comments: The politics and religous views and actions of early RI are comparable to today's questions. John Vaughn (1612-1687) could shed some light.
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Name: Catherine
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: new york
Time: 2000-02-21 03:28:02
Comments: trying to find more info. on my father's family, davies. also, can not make out writing on old paper. is there a town in Wales "ystradryfoding"? anything like this? help?
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Name: d nelson
Referred by: AOL
From: St. Louis, MO
Time: 2000-02-17 23:14:15
Comments: I am trying to find out more about my mother's history. I have a lot of records regarding my mother's family line, but I do not know anything about Wales. Where would I go for help? Please e-mail me direct. Thank you very much.
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Name: chad michael roberts
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: kansas city, kansas
Time: 2000-02-17 07:29:20
Comments: i am finding it very hard to find the origin of my surname Roberts. i am assuming it is of welsh or scottish origin. any advice you all have on web sites that could help would be nice. thanks!!
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Name: Carolyn Wager
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Havertown, Pennsylvania
Time: 2000-02-17 03:42:43
Comments: I wish it were a bit easier to find out the origin of my last name...you've seemed to have found the best way to collect and ditribute this kind of info.
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Name: James Davis
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Hamilton, Indiana, USA
Time: 2000-02-15 23:53:53
Comments: I like the site very much. It has alot of info about Wales. I really like the weather reports, I have shared them with the rest of my family who don't have computers. Keep up the good work. Also this is my third trip to the site.
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Name: Carolynne Babin (Lloyd)
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: New Brunswick, Canada
Time: 2000-02-15 23:36:38
Comments: Just looking for information regarding my family tree - I was born in Glamorgan, South Wales
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Name: Paul Harney of Anwyll
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Bermuda
Time: 2000-02-15 01:19:54
Comments: This looks great and i hope that you can help me...! Vivre la Wales!!!
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Name: Robert G Lewis
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Regina, Saskatchewan,Canda
Time: 2000-02-14 04:38:17
Comments: Very good site, but am looking for more info. Tanks very much.
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Name: Sydney Snow
Website:
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Utah
Time: 2000-02-14 04:11:16
Comments: Hi Jon I am Venita's oldest child. Just wanted to say HI. I visit here a lot and never signed in. Take care. Sydney
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Name: Mary Peterson
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Missouri USA
Time: 2000-02-13 20:55:11
Comments: It is great to be able to visit Wales at last
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Name: Arlene Harker
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Plano, Tx (suburb Dallas)
Time: 2000-02-12 17:52:51
Comments: One more connection to my Welsh history!
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Name: Delyth Amos
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Time: 2000-02-11 16:29:01
Comments: I am interested in locating my birth family who were Pughs from the Dogelley area I believe I was just surfing your pages to see if anything would catch my eye. My birth mother's name is Gwen Ann Morris nee Pugh, and she has a sister Beryl. I am able to get more information and will do so to aid my search.
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Name: Mark Thomas
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Luton, Bedfordshire
Time: 2000-02-10 23:01:47
Comments: Just passing through looking for photo's of Tenby. We used to holiday there quite a bit as a kid! BYE!
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Name: Dick Roberts
Website:
Referred by: NewsGroups
From: Upland, California, USA
Time: 2000-02-10 18:32:36
Comments: I am impressed with your web site.
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Name: Diana Thomas Knowles
Website:
Referred by: From a Friend
From: United States
Time: 2000-02-10 02:20:00
Comments: I am not sure I am in the right place to post this message, but I just found out that my "Thomas" family of Wales came from Welshpool and I don't know where that is. I have to try to find a map of Wales. The last known relatives living in Wales were Alfred Earnest Thomas and his mother Mary Ann Thomas who received a commendation from Queen Victoria. HELP! Someone point me in the right direction, please. Thank You. Diana
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Name: Mark Howell Williams
Website: The Williams Family Web Pages
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Alabama, USA
Time: 2000-02-10 01:52:50
Comments: I belive that this site has grown into a very good reserch site,and I will be useing it more and more as I serch for my Roots. Your Picture libery is great it lives me wanting more. Thanks for a look in to my pasted and I hope to visit your contrey soon. You have a freind in Alabama, USA
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Name: Peg Horn
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Toronto, Canada
Time: 2000-02-09 20:25:04
Comments: I often look at your webpage John. The pictures of Llansamlet were wonderful. I made some copies for Diana Davies as she told me she isn't able to get into your site for some reason.
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Name: Susan Southcombe
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Rhondda Cynon Taff,South Wales
Time: 2000-02-08 23:54:03
Comments: I'm so glad to have found a page with so much information to help search for Welsh ancestors.I'm an amateur at this and I hope to be able to find out more about my family history by using the info I have found here.
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Name: Roy Underwood
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Aberdare South Wales
Time: 2000-02-08 17:53:24
Comments: Picked up your site from the MIDMARCH roots web group
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Name: Duane Sheppard
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Brockville, Ont. Canada
Time: 2000-02-08 17:32:13
Comments: Keep up the good work - we need sites like this.
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Name: Clive Mordecai
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: aberdare
Time: 2000-02-05 20:46:45
Comments: will be back thank you
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Name: mark havard
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: basingstoke,hampshire.
Time: 2000-02-05 20:44:58
Comments: thanks for answering my mail so quickly. great site.
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Name: Gregory Franklin Pressey
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada
Time: 2000-02-05 18:08:21
Comments: Thank you for what is obviously a labour of love.
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Name: Marlene
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Cambridgeshire
Time: 2000-02-05 15:38:29
Comments: Your site is absolutely brilliant not only for Welsh information but all other aspects of family history also. For a beginner it has all kinds of help and assistance. It is a site which I will recommend to others and one that I have stored in my Favorites. Well done. PS reply will always be welcome from Guest book owner!
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Name: June Conway
Website:
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Dartford, Kent
Time: 2000-02-05 15:45:57
Comments: Thank you for the images of Llansamlet. Henry Bodycomb fell off his horse one Sunday whilst on his way to church. Subsequently he died.
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Name: Kathleen Casey Ryan
Website:
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Born in Ft. Lauderdale, FL;currently in Flagler Bch, FL
Time: 2000-02-04 23:09:02
Comments: I recieved this address on one of Linda Wright's notes to me. We have been reseaching our family's roots. Thanks for all your help
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Name: Denny Evans
Website:
Referred by: SimpleNet
From: Louisville, Ohio USA
Time: 2000-02-04 22:43:24
Comments: I have Welsh ancestry, and would like to meet someone from Wales by mail. I do not always have access to the Web. My address is Louisville Fire Dept. Attn. D. Evans 215 S. Mill St. Louisville, Ohio 44641 USA
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Name: Margaret Mansell
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: King's Lynn
Time: 2000-02-04 18:13:06
Comments: Liked the website, joined the archive list, hope it helps to make family connections, very user friendly, well done.
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Name: Joyce Hopkins
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Manchester
Time: 2000-02-02 21:36:44
Comments: I have just started to research my husbands late family and having great difficulty in finding my way round the web sites to research. Can you help. They were from Ton Pentre
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Name: Ashley powell
Website: Whitfields of Usworth
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Washington Tyne Wear
Time: 2000-02-01 14:33:52
Comments: Great site wish you all the best and hope I find my ggrandfathers home town. Ashley
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Name: patricia (Lewis)thomas
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: parents-Anglesy & Rhonda Valley
Time: 2000-01-31 01:48:59
Comments: Hi & Thankyou for your page. I,m doing some research on the family and hopefully traveling to Wales soon. Regards Penny
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Name: Vanessa Rosemary Leonard Drummond
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Brazil-Rio de Janeiro
Time: 2000-01-29 17:23:44
Comments: Happy to have found you.Wonderful page
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Name: Deborah Williams Place
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Higjlands Ranch, Colorado USA
Time: 2000-01-28 20:48:28
Comments: The photographs and stories are wonderful, thanks for sharing your life and time with the WORLD!
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Name: Ron Marlow
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Fish Hoekn near Cape Town, South Africa.
Time: 2000-01-26 23:05:17
Comments: Hello John, I received your answering mail to my request for subscription to the Welsh List I am most gratefull. Yes you are right, I misspelt Llanelli. Thanks for correcting me. Your site is very interesting and I am, right this moment enjoying browsing through it. Am also going to have a look at the Names List. Warm regards from Cape Town. Ron Marlow.
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Name: Elaine Edney
Website:
Referred by: NewsGroups
From:
Time: 2000-01-25 11:40:18
Comments: I really enjoy your pages John & want to thank you for all you do. It certainly helps people like me living on the other side of the world. I was especially thrilled to see the photos of St. George's Tredegar where my g g grandparents married in 1843 & would love to see any further scenes of Tredegar & Rhymney where my ancestors lived & worked. Keep up the good work & good luck in your searches.
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Name: Pat Buttars
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Roy, Utah, USA
Time: 2000-01-25 02:09:01
Comments: This is great for those of us, that have never been able to see Wales and are doing genealogical research in the area. Thanks Much
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Name: Doug Freimark
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Toledo,Ohio
Time: 2000-01-24 01:44:32
Comments: My mom was from wales and was just searching and found your site.very nice
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Name: Selwyn George Jones
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Llangollen
Time: 2000-01-22 19:48:50
Comments: An interesting idea. Need to start one like this for North Wales!
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Name: Sharon Hughes
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Llanharan
Time: 2000-01-22 14:13:03
Comments: A pleasure just as I am about to give up as I simply cannot find the amount of time it takes and with so many relatives deceased.I come across your site and am inspired once again many thanks
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Name: Jannette ROE(Nee THOMAS)
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: 11/22-24 Elizabeth St PARRAMATTA 2150 N.S.W. AUSTRALIA.
Time: 2000-01-22 11:16:40
Comments: I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR MONTH ., TO THINK I HAVE JUST HAPPEN ACROSS YOU. TO ALSO THINK YOUR ARE A THOMAS "WELL DONE TO YOUR WEB SIGHT" PLEASE DON'T LOOSE MY ADDRESS AS I HAVE A NEW COMPUTER AND I'M NOT REAL GOOD AS YET BUT THEN I'M A THOMAS AND I AM GOOD 'RIGHT'
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Name: Herbert Morgan
Website:
Referred by: AOL
From: Scotia, New York, USA, 12302
Time: 2000-01-21 13:51:02
Comments: I have some inquiries about my Grandfather and will be touching base with someone later on. Thanks for the opportunity to sign your guestbook.
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Name: Royston Richards
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Milan, but born in Ystradgynlais
Time: 2000-01-21 07:17:08
Comments: I found the site very interesting and may well use it again in the near future as I continue to research my Welsh family history
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Name: Pat Marsh
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Westmorland & Cambridgeshire
Time: 2000-01-20 18:13:57
Comments: New to all this , found your page at last through Powys FHS & found it very interesting, thanks.
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Name: alan williams
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: living in christchurch. dorset
Time: 2000-01-17 21:28:16
Comments: valuable info. keep up good work. hope you may be able to assist me with my family history. thanks
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Name: Neil & Kathleen Tomkins
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Adelaide South Australia
Time: 2000-01-17 11:50:20
Comments: Hi John, you have a wonderful site which has proved to be very useful, it's well set out, very informative and I would to thank you for your assistance in obtaining information on my ancestors which I will now be able to update now on our page and database.

The images of Wales are wonderful we can't wait to experience it again in September this year, who knows we may even get to meet face to face. Regards from "Down Under".
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Name: Lynn Howells-John
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Cardiff
Time: 2000-01-15 11:33:27
Comments: Thank you for a great site. Checking the photographs and found them excellent.I must pick some of mine to send.
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Name: Scott Reece
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Orange CA
Time: 2000-01-15 10:23:51
Comments: I'm looking for a suitible naame for my female Pembroke Corgi. I thought I'd start here.
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Name: David James Evans
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Kamloops, B.C Canada
Time: 2000-01-13 18:10:01
Comments: Very informative
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Name: Kelly Guest
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: California
Time: 2000-01-13 04:00:15
Comments: Great site - thanks for all the hard work that allowed me to peruse this info! -KG
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Name: joy waterhouse
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: sydney australia
Time: 2000-01-13 04:06:57
Comments: really enjoyed my afternoon ,looking for grandma really but got carried away.So good excuse to come back, thank you.
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Name: Hosmer Caradoc Jones
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Lynbrook, Long Island, NY, USA
Time: 2000-01-13 02:46:48
Comments: I have been looking for Welsh geneology sites trying to find ancestors. Your site is one of the best I've seen.
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Name: Clarence e. Reese
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Fort Worth, Texas
Time: 2000-01-12 20:57:11
Comments: I really enjoyed your Homepage. It was very interesting especially the pictures. Thank you C. E. Reese
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Name: Jill Cummins
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: West Chester, Ohio USA
Time: 2000-01-12 18:47:06
Comments: I love this website. It makes me want to take another shot at researching my Welsh lines.
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Name: Linda Goodland
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Pontypridd
Time: 2000-01-11 23:48:57
Comments: Mum is following our family tree, I'm sure she will come and visit and add to your site. So far.......traced great great grandfather, name ROWLANDS to Llanelli.
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Name: Thomas Graham Williams
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Mifflinburg. PA, USA
Time: 2000-01-11 03:24:28
Comments: I have spent alot of hours researching your page and data, I think it is outstanding and would like to communicate with you, it's unbelievable how you can up date this page every day, I hope you can help me, and I look forward to corresponding with you. Thank you, very much for your dedication to your family and to helping others like myself. Happy New Year, Tom Williams (tgwilliams@snap.com)
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Name: Vernon Welch
Website:
Referred by: Yahoo!
From: Kentucky
Time: 2000-01-08 19:27:54
Comments: How do I find my Grandfathers family ancestry if he was a Welshman? He was born in Louisiana and with a name of Vennie Welch?
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Name: Tanya Francis Dunn
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: U.S.A.
Time: 2000-01-08 14:24:24
Comments: I just happened upon you in a Net-search for Wales and family history. What a composite and wonderful place you have here-so full of information and links and help!
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Name: Dai Boswell
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Pembroke, Wales
Time: 2000-01-07 23:10:01
Comments: Very informative pages, was busy looking for family links to the Boswell family and come across your webpages. It's nice to see interest in the Welsh!!
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Name: A.C.
Website: Ballykissangel The Glory Days
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Ohio
Time: 2000-01-07 18:48:31
Comments: I have been visiting this page off and on since last spring when I starting looking up info on Welsh family history and Wales in general on the web. (btw, my Welsh family settled in Aliance OH in the mid 19th c. if anyone wants to correspond re/Welsh in that area) This page is always interesting and helpful. I enjoy it a lot!
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Name: dm
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Missouri
Time: 2000-01-04 20:59:51
Comments: Very interesting!!!
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Name: Julie Williams
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Lake Cowichan, BC, Canada
Time: 2000-01-03 20:26:04
Comments: Great website! I have been looking for something like this for a long time as I am from Wales and I am always interested in our past. Congratulations on such a great website and all the best!
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Name: Marilyn Edwards
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Woy Woy, NSW, Australia
Time: 2000-01-03 00:42:08
Comments: Congratulations on a wonderful and informative site. I am very interested in anything welsh as my father was born in Ystrad Mynach and I still have family living there. Please keep me informed re any changes that you make to your site. Keep up the good work. Marilyn
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Name: Anthony James Woods (Tony)
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Cardiff
Time: 2000-01-02 12:36:13
Comments: An extremely well designed web site, informative and interesting - but no Woods on record nor my Mother's family Jacket (Jaquet).
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Name: Dean Jones
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: West Virginia, USA
Time: 2000-01-02 02:32:07
Comments: Have been looking for my GGG Grandfather's birthplace and parents name for sometime now. David D. Jones, 1817 and a brother Evan N. Jones, 1813. I have visited Wales and think that is is beautiful, wish I could speak the language.
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