Guestbook Entries - Volume 5 (2002)
Read what people were saying about my website in 2002.
Click here for the Guestbook menu page.
This volume is incomplete; guestbook entries prior to 16th May have been lost.
Name: Gwenllian O'Neill
E-mail: gwenoneill@justinternet.com.au
Website:
From: Queensland, Australia
Date/Time: Tuesday, 31 December 2002 17:11
Comments: best wish for 2003 , keep up the good work . your contribution is priceless.
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Name: Lynette Frances
E-mail: pfrances@austarnet.com.au
Website:
From: Port Macquarie NSW Australia
Date/Time: Sunday, 29 December 2002 04:10
Comments: Enjoyed your site, searching my Grandfathers family (from Glamorgan Sth Wales)
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Name: Ray Jones
E-mail: wales555@optusnet.com.au
Website:
From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date/Time: Tuesday, 24 December 2002 04:33
Comments: John,
I am a Welshman by birth originally from Merthyr Tydfil, however I have spent the majority of my adult life living abroad. I have recently decided to investigate the possibility of finding out about my family history and have found your website to be very informative. I congratulate you on the amount of work and effort that has gone into your site and urge you to keep up the good work.
Regards,
Ray
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Name: Jan Poot
E-mail: info@janpoot.nl
Website:
From: Netherlands
Date/Time: Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:25
Comments: Hi John,
I was routed to your website when I was looking for information on Llanfair PG. Great and clear information.
Browsing further, I detected Dave's paintings. I am a admirer of British watercolour landscapes. Is Dave's gallery up to date? I would really like to have one or two of the paintings hanging in my living room
Response: David has not added any more work to the gallery for about three years. At present, he is concentrating on installations and video art. You can check out some of his more recent work on the DISCO Artists' Collective website at http://www.discogroup.co.uk/ - John Ball (12 Dec 2002)
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Name: Shakira
E-mail: shakira@shakirasky.co.uk
Website:
From: Liverpool
Date/Time: Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:38
Comments: Your site is one of the best I could find after searching through many search engines. Well done! Please update it more often.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Shakira
Response: I update my website every day - How often do you want me to update it?? - John Ball (10 Dec 2002)
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Name: David & Betty Evans
E-mail: devans@telus.net
Website:
From: Kamloops B.C. Canada
Date/Time: Friday, 6 December 2002 05:59
Comments: We enjoyed your site and will be back. Thanks Dae & Betty Evans.
Parts of this guestbook entry rejected because they were not about my website - John Ball (6 Dec 2002)
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Name: Mark Nordhoff
E-mail: taffster@osb.uk.net
Website:
From: Norfolk
Date/Time: Friday, 29 November 2002 22:33
Comments: As a swansea Jack living in exile it is good to see an excellent site about Wales!!!
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Name: Lauri (Potter) Quigley
E-mail: DukeBrandyBud@aol.com
Website:
From: USA, Hannibal, NY 13074
Date/Time: Friday, 15 November 2002 17:06
Comments: I have a grat time on your web age every time I visit.
Thank you
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Name: Lois Carrington
E-mail: carrington@netspeed.com.au
Website:
From: Canberra, Australia
Date/Time: Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:08
Comments: To someone with Welsh forebears, who lives on the other side of the world, John’s photographs — and other features — are wonderful — I learn something, every week. And I can say Llanddewi Ystradenny quite passably!
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Name: Webmaestro
E-mail: global2000@theglobe.com
Website:
From: Adelaide,South Australia
Date/Time: Friday, 8 November 2002 00:32
Comments: Very nice website.
Parts of this guestbook entry rejected because they were of a commercial nature - John Ball (8 Nov 2002).
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Name: Brandi
E-mail: brandi10@telus.net
Website:
From: beautiful British Columbia, Canada
Date/Time: Thursday, 7 November 2002 22:57
Comments: What a superb site - truly a labor of love...was {somewhat helplessly} researching the RAINS family, found your site and became lost in it for hours...
you have given me much to go on, great links, wonderful maps, lots of explanations/resources... absolutely wonderful photography!!!
keep up the grand work... u make us realize that it's worthwhile to keep plugging along...
regards, Brandi
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Name: Sharol Fletcher
E-mail: sfs@snowcrest.net
Website:
From: Sugarloaf, Lakehead, Shasta County, California, United States
Date/Time: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 18:35
Comments: Simply Wonderful! I have learned so very much from wandering around your web pages. I especially enjoyed The Sounds of Wales and all of your photographs. Really makes me want to visit your homeland.
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Name: Aaliyah Moore
E-mail: jerusiam@aol.com
Website:
From: Riverside, California
Date/Time: Monday, 28 October 2002 10:55
Comments: Aaliyah Moore's comments rejected because they were not about my website - John Ball (28 Oct 2002)
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Name: Glan Phillips
E-mail: glan@gowebco.com
Website:
From: Floral City,
Florida,
USA
Date/Time: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 03:27
Comments: Wonderful web site, especially for someone like myself, originally from the Clydach, Ynystawe, Morriston areas and many years ago worked in Ystalyfera.
Keep up the good work and also many thanks for replying to my e-mail John.
Very Best Wishes,
Glan Phillips
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Name: Eric Williams
E-mail: ericw@onetel.net.uk
Website:
From: Cwmann
Llanbedr Pont Steffan
Ceredigion
Date/Time: Saturday, 12 October 2002 08:37
Comments: Diolch yn fawr am yr holl wybodaeth.
Thanks for all the info on your site.
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Name: Shelli
E-mail: SBeow@aol.com
Website:
From: Clermont, Florida
Date/Time: Friday, 11 October 2002 05:04
Comments: I've enjoyed reading all that you have on Wales...I've learned a lot of my ancestors were also from England,through your website. Thank You!
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Name: marilyn
E-mail: mjcaru@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Lake Illawarra ,NSW Australia
Date/Time: Monday, 7 October 2002 02:22
Comments: I have enjoyed looking and reading some of he comments, keep up the good work. (from Llanelli, S Wales) now live in the New South Wales.
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Name: jean finney colbaugh
E-mail: colbaugh@erols.com
Website:
From: Maryland U.S.A.
Date/Time: Monday, 7 October 2002 01:08
Comments: Just discovered your website. Looking forward to more photos - especially Breconshire area and South Wales. Appreciate the service you are providing to the descendants of Welsh ancestry. Thank you.
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Name: Douglas Publack
E-mail: nature2@telusplanet.net
Website:
From: Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada
Date/Time: Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:01
Comments: The information you have provided on your web page will help me in my trip next year. Thanks again, for you web page.
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Name: Jimmy Hemphill IV
E-mail: hemphilliv@aol.com
Website: www.HomeTown.aol.com/hemphilliv
From: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
near SouthPark Mall
Date/Time: Thursday, 3 October 2002 02:54
Comments: My mother's family came over from Wales.
I am really enjoying seeing the pictures of Wales.
I hope to visit some day.
Jimmy
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Name: gwenllian oneill
E-mail: gwenoneill@justinternet.com.au
Website:
From: Australia
Date/Time: Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:04
Comments: I would like to see some photos of some of the villages in Gwent from Risca up to Brynmawr .
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Name: Edna Marlow
E-mail: ekbrits@sympatico.ca
Website:
From: Ottawa, Canada
Date/Time: Monday, 30 September 2002 23:45
Comments: Truly loved your photographs.
Keep up the good work.
Kindest regards.
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Name: Patricia Golden
E-mail: goldsky@adelphia.net
Website:
From: Brookfield, NH, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 28 September 2002 14:53
Comments: Thank You for a lovely site. Whenever I am discouraged with my search for family information, I view your pictures of Wales and am cheered up and encouraged to keep searching.
Kind Regards, Patricia Golden
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Name: Patricia Peters (née Morgan)
E-mail: peterssussex@bcinternet.net
Website:
From: 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada
Date/Time: Wednesday, 25 September 2002 00:39
Comments: Came upon your website while searching for burial site of Gt.Gt.Grandfather. So glad I tuned in, I'll be back regularly until I've been through it thoroughly. Really appreciate all the hard work you have done putting it together. Will tell all my displaced Welsh friends over here. Thank you. Pat Peters (née Morgan) W. Canada.
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Name: Alice Helmey
E-mail: gg1531@aol.com
Website:
From: California
Date/Time: Monday, 23 September 2002 07:35
Comments: The pictures are wonderful especially for one who has not been able to travel to Europe (as yet). Thank you very much and I will look forward to each new entry.
Alice
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Name: Elizabeth Sumner
E-mail: calico@tds.net
Website:
From: Millington, Michigan, USA
Date/Time: Tuesday, 10 September 2002 19:55
Comments: Fantastic photos and information!!! I have saved them to disc, as we have a distant relative in Carmarthenshire.
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Name: steve thomas
E-mail: set1941@yahoo.com
Website:
From: clover, south carolina, usa
Date/Time: Monday, 2 September 2002 21:07
Comments: john thank you very much for your kind consideration, and labour. your website is a great contribution to us all.
steve thomas
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Name: Kitty McLamb
E-mail: kittymclamb@attbi.com
Website:
From: Presently, Livermore, California, USA
Later, Indialantic, Florida, USA
Date/Time: Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:14
Comments: Absolutely wonderful web site!!!
I love the pictures.
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Name: Nancy Stockman
E-mail: nj0710@adelphia.net
Website:
From: Snyder, New York USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 24 August 2002 19:49
Comments: Dear John -
This is my first visit to your web site, and I found it very informative and interesting. My maiden name is Bonsall, so you can see why I am interested in Wales. I will surely be visiting you many times in the future.
Thank you
Nancy
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Name: Bob Symonds
E-mail: r.symonds@ntlworld.com
Website: www.welshbob.co.uk
From: Loughborough, Leics, England (Ex Merthyr Tydfil, Wales)
Date/Time: Sunday, 11 August 2002 16:22
Comments: Excellent site. As an amateur photographer I can appreciate your works.
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Name: Russell A. Williams
E-mail: wmsrasp@centurytel.net
Website:
From:
Date/Time: Sunday, 4 August 2002 03:05
Comments: My wife and I were in the Llananno church in 1985. Your photography is superb. Thank you.
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Name: gwenllian oneill
E-mail: gwenoneill@justinternet.com.au
Website: justinternet
From: queensland Australia
Date/Time: Saturday, 3 August 2002 12:48
Comments: i have only just received your name , I will be using your site often
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Name: Rhiannon
E-mail: rhip1187@aol.com
Website:
From: Rhymney,Gwent,South wales
Date/Time: Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:28
Comments: haven't found any members of my family yet
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Name: Aurely
E-mail: aurely.flying@wanadoo.fr
Website:
From: Actuellement a Londres mais Paris
Date/Time: Tuesday, 30 July 2002 11:26
Comments: Superbe site avec de superbes photos !!!! Merci de m'avoir rappelé ma douce france qui me manque tant.Et comme belle ville de Province je vous conseille Toulouse qui respire le terroir =)
Amicalement.
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Name: Mildred (Griffiths) Sandlin
E-mail: millies@ohiohills.com
Website:
From: Jackson, Ohio
Date/Time: Sunday, 28 July 2002 03:40
Comments: I've been away, the first time I have been on your Web site for a while,will visit it more often now,love the welsh language site
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Name: Annie James
E-mail: Pasttimes99@aol.com
Website: www.Pastimes research uk
From: Hampshire/Dorset border
Date/Time: Saturday, 20 July 2002 14:31
Comments: Thanks so much John for your lovely site.
I am researching ancestors in Wales from 1720s on, I have researched areas of Wales and your photographs help a lot with dating the places you list.
Regards Annie James,
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Name: joan jennings.nee Giles
E-mail: jjennings@ceinternet.com.au
Website:
From: New South Wales.Australia
Date/Time: Thursday, 11 July 2002 01:06
Comments: I have enjoyed your site.I am hoping to get some hints on tracing my Welsh ancestors
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Name: David Lavies
E-mail: ddl@wwisp.com
Website:
From: Alabaster, AL
Date/Time: Tuesday, 9 July 2002 22:09
Comments:
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Name: Ann Lewis
E-mail: catdeano@aol.com
Website:
From: Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil
Date/Time: Tuesday, 9 July 2002 19:44
Comments: A lovely site which I will recommend to friends and my pupils studying art in school.
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Name: Mark D. Bodurtha
E-mail: MBodurtha@aol.com
Website:
From: Montgomery Mass. U.S.A.
Date/Time: Sunday, 7 July 2002 12:26
Comments:
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Name: GEOFFREY D G EVANS
E-mail: gebr14747@blueyonder.co.uk
Website:
From: BRISTOL-UK
Date/Time: Saturday, 6 July 2002 10:21
Comments: A nice informitive site.
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Name: e.c.soul
E-mail: esoul@direct.ca
Website:
From: new west.b.c. canada
Date/Time: Sunday, 30 June 2002 03:05
Comments: really enjoyed the pictures of tywyn I lived there until I joined the WAAF in1941 I came to Canada 1n 1945. More pictures of tywyn if possible. Thank you for the pleasure the web page has given me.
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Name: Richard W. Davies
E-mail: dr.davies@verizon.net
Website:
From: Redlands, Califorrnia USA
Date/Time: Sunday, 30 June 2002 01:29
Comments: We are researching ancestry in Wales. Finding this site may prove to be of tremendous aid to our search efforts. Thank you for allowing us to investigate through your web site.
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Name: Janice Harland(Rusher)
E-mail: Harland-Rusher@xtra.co.nz
Website:
From: Dunedin, New Zealand
Date/Time: Wednesday, 26 June 2002 03:31
Comments: Your website seems user friendly. Will contact re Neath and family tree.
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Name: Sherril Kelly
E-mail: sherrilkelly@hotmail.com
Website:
From: SY25 6DE Wales
Date/Time: Tuesday, 25 June 2002 11:26
Comments: Great site,I have tried to send you an e-mail confirming my details, from hotmail, it will not accept the address as correct,please e-mail me, and let me know what's the best to do, sorry for the work entailed, yours, Sherril
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Name: Christine
E-mail: cmaster@si.rr.com
Website: http://www.pandcwebmasters.com
From: Staten Island, NY USA
Date/Time: Monday, 24 June 2002 22:18
Comments: Very Cool Site! I like it! Wishing every success with your website! Please visit mine. www.pandcwebmasters.com
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Name: tony mead
E-mail: meada@bigpond.com.au
Website:
From: bairndale, victoria, australia
Date/Time: Sunday, 23 June 2002 09:00
Comments: None as yet as i have only just found your site. regards tony
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Name: Stephen Paul James
E-mail: steve.james@ntlworld.com
Website:
From: Derbyshire, England
Date/Time: Saturday, 22 June 2002 16:11
Comments: Born: Haverford West - 1956
I am looking for family.
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Name: Dave T.
E-mail: dave.tompsett@sympatico.ca
Website:
From:
Date/Time: Friday, 21 June 2002 16:42
Comments: I particularly enjoy browsing this site, but also wanted to thank you for making photos of various places available AND for reminding us of your additions on several Rootsweb name-sites.
Much appreciated.
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Name: Leonard Burns
E-mail: lensis@etv.net
Website:
From: Orangeville, Utah, USA
Date/Time: Monday, 17 June 2002 22:43
Comments: Just looking at your photos bring back a lot of pleasant memories from when I was stationed in Bedfordshire, almost 40 years ago. I have alsays wanted to return to the U.K., and visit my ancesters homeland, Glamorganshire.
Thank you very much.
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Name: sophie-maire morgan
E-mail: chipmunk193@aol.com
Website:
From: newport malpas south wales
Date/Time: Sunday, 16 June 2002 19:37
Comments:
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Name: Jan Burton
E-mail: jan49burton@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Neath, West Glamorgan
Date/Time: Saturday, 15 June 2002 22:35
Comments: Have visited your site for the first time and liked what I seen. Keep up the good work.
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Name: RoseMarie Connah
E-mail: roseconnah@rogers.com
Website:
From: Ottawa,Ont.,Canada
Date/Time: Friday, 14 June 2002 20:05
Comments: You did a great job on web page, love the pictures.
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Name: Gough Reynolds
E-mail: g.d.reynolds@xtra.co.nz
Website:
From: new plymouth, New Zealand
Date/Time: Wednesday, 12 June 2002 09:54
Comments: an absolutly essential site for ex pats
keep up the good work, thanks
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Name: Sylvia J. Isaac
E-mail: Sylviasgarden@AOL.com
Website:
From: Renton, WA U.S.A.
Date/Time: Tuesday, 11 June 2002 03:05
Comments: First visit here. Interesting. My mother was born Welsh, although a U.S. citizen for many years. I haven't visited Wales since 1978. Hope to visit near Abercrave,her home town, in the next few years.
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Name: Brian Llewelyn
E-mail: bryan@abergelli.fsnet.co.uk
Website:
From: Felindre, Swansea
Date/Time: Sunday, 9 June 2002 22:25
Comments: Great website really interesting and helpful keep up the good work Regards Bryan
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Name: CRAIG DAVIES
E-mail: STEVE@GROVE24.FSNET.CO.UK
Website:
From: NEWBRIDGE, GWENT
Date/Time: Saturday, 8 June 2002 21:31
Comments: WHAT A GREAT B****Y PLACE TO LIVE MAN
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Name: Al Davies
E-mail: alundavies@earthlink.net
Website:
From: Springfield, Massachusetts
Date/Time: Friday, 7 June 2002 04:55
Comments: Great site!
Fy tad teulu O Maesteg, Cymru.
Lost them at a young age, but I feel my Welshness. Teaching myself the language.
Diolch yn fawr!
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Name: Bob Laugharne
E-mail: boblaugharne@msn.com
Website:
From: Isle of Wight, England (born Maesteg)
Date/Time: Tuesday, 4 June 2002 16:59
Comments: Very interseting. Many thanks for efforts.
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Name: Glenys Ellwood
E-mail: gellwood@tiscali.co.uk
Website:
From: Marple, Stockport, Cheshire, England
Date/Time: Sunday, 2 June 2002 23:09
Comments:
A superb website. Easy to operate and understand for a beginner like me. Thank you Glenys
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Name: Lloyd H. Thomas Jr.
E-mail: lthomas4@mindspring.com
Website: http://www.rexall.com/lloydthomas/
From: Naples, Florida, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 1 June 2002 21:30
Comments:
I have had no luck in the past in trying to find out about my father's family, and I am hoping for more success in the future.
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Name: Warren Hackett
E-mail: wghackett@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Corona, Riverside, California, USA
Date/Time: Monday 05/27/2002 5:47:20am
Comments:
Just starting to track down my fathers line. I appreciate all the work you have done.
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Name: Wendy Evans
E-mail: dhaladelaroche@aol.com
Website:
From: mid glamorgan
Date/Time: Sunday 05/26/2002 11:04:12pm
Comments:
A brilliant site best yet i will come back again.
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Name: Frances Calcote
E-mail: fbrite02@aol.com
Website:
From:
Date/Time: Friday 05/24/2002 4:27:41am
Comments: I really like your general set up. Have not seen it all but the artwork is very appealing. Shall return later
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Name: Rowland Coombes
E-mail: rowlie.coombes@sympatico.ca
Website:
From: Bowmanville, Ontario Canada
Date/Time: Thursday 05/23/2002 8:53:23pm
Comments: I came upon your website while I was searching for the Tonna/Neath area sites.
I will E-mail you for advice.
Thank you. Rowlie
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Name: Joan Hopkin
E-mail: APCYN@ttlc.net
Website:
From: U.S.A.
Date/Time: Thursday 05/23/2002 1:09:45pm
Comments: This site looks terrific.
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Name: Leslie Wolfe
E-mail: twowolfes@effectnet.com
Website:
From: Oregon, USA
Date/Time: Tuesday 05/21/2002 4:38:11am
Comments: Thanks
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Name: Arthur C Thomas
E-mail: craig26991@msn.com
Website:
From:
Date/Time: Saturday 05/18/2002 12:43:46am
Comments: Land of my Father
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Name: Eric Williams
E-mail: ericfedw@onetel.net.uk
Website:
From: Cwmann
Date/Time: Saturday 05/18/2002 8:31:50am
Comments: Just saying hello!
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Name: Ann Betsworth
E-mail: harwil6.freeserve.co.uk
Website:
From: Glamorgan
Date/Time: Friday 05/17/2002 9:29:24pm
Comments: Most impressed
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Name: Susan Hoole (née) Owen
E-mail: MOTHERHOOLE@aol.com
Website:
From: Leeds
Date/Time: Thursday 05/16/2002 8:51:26pm
Comments: I've signed this book in my married name I like this page and will visit quite often thankyou
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