Guestbook Entries - Volume 8 (2005)
Read what people were saying about my website in 2005.
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Name: John Emmanuel
E-mail: johnsheila.e@clear.net.nz
Website:
From: Rotorua, New Zealand
Date/Time: Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:22
Comments: I have only recently acquired a computer and being so far from home I find myself looking for sites that have anything to do with Wales. I must say that yours is first class bringing back lots of memories especially as I lived as a youth in the Rectory at Cilybebyll and went to school in Ystalyfera. Congratulations on a great site from an old expat who gets very homesick from time to time.
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Name: Ron Evans
E-mail: mantisfamily@bellsouth.net
Website:
From: Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA
Date/Time: Thursday, 22 December 2005 00:54
Comments: great site
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Name: LR Laughton
E-mail: adlaughton@yahoo.com
Website:
From: Los Angeles, California, USA
Date/Time: Friday, 9 December 2005 08:54
Comments: This new website is better than the old, if that is at all possible because the old website was perfect.
John, thank you for all the great work that you've done in helping people discover their Welsh origins and life then and now in blessed and beloved Wales.
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Name: Monika
E-mail: monika_g_@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Ontario, Canada
Date/Time: Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:08
Comments: Hello! I Google searched "field mouse" to determine whether the creature I've been rehabilitating is, in fact, a field mouse... and in so doing, I stumbled upon your site (the Toby section). Somehow, I've been on it for the last half-hour, almost voyeuristically learning about your life. I particularly enjoyed your documentation of your trip to France (all of a sudden I have the urge to go there!), and your artistic creations! Keep up the good work!
All the best,
Monika
PS. Your Christmas pudding recipe was highly informative/amusing. :0)
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Name: Lynn
E-mail: lnoble13@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Date/Time: Thursday, 24 November 2005 03:28
Comments: loved yr site very intresting look forward to visiting again
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Name: Carole Slade
E-mail: caroleslade@supawoman.com
Website:
From: Born in Alltwen (Dyffryn Road ). Now live in Barry.
Date/Time: Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:07
Comments: I was thrilled to see all the photographs of Alltwen.
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Name: Beryl Affleck
E-mail: baffleck@nexicom.net
Website:
From: Peterborough Ontario Canada
Date/Time: Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:07
Comments: really brings back so many childhood memories. We spent summers onthe N Wales coast from Rhyl on to Llandudno . would love to see pictures from the 1920-30. Thank you
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Name: George Derrick
E-mail: gderrick@cogeco.ca
Website:
From: Canada
Date/Time: Sunday, 13 November 2005 19:48
Comments: Hi, I have tried to contact you Mr Ball but do not have your current e-mail address. It is in regard to a genuine inquiry of mine,Sincerely, George.
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Name: Anita Jones
E-mail: anitajones@cableone.net
Website:
From: Gulfport, Missouri, USA
Date/Time: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:59
Comments: looking for family history in tylertown ms and dublin ireland thank you
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Name: Ron and Sue Jackson
E-mail: ronsuejackson@sympatico.ca
Website:
From: Ottawa On Canada
Date/Time: Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:58
Comments: Very impressive John. See you soon
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Name: Trevor Nicholson
E-mail: 1garethn@tpg.com.au
Website:
From: Redhead Newcastle Australia
Date/Time: Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:04
Comments: great photoes showed my father who worked at bargoed colliery and we lived at aberbargoed in the 60s now in australia
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Name: Jean McIntosh
E-mail: bearandjean@xtra.co.nz
Website:
From: New Zealand
Date/Time: Saturday, 17 September 2005 03:11
Comments: Fantastic site - such a lot of work done! Lots of useful links and love the featured photos. You have helped me learn of Aberdare (1850's) where my Morgan family married. Thanks
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Name: John Bradshaw
E-mail: dragoncases@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Wales
Date/Time: Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:40
Comments: Very interesting site full of useful information.
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Name: Patrick Youells
E-mail: cody7762@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Parkville, Maryland, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 10 September 2005 00:51
Comments: Very nice web site. I will continue to use it in my education of my Grandfathers land. Thank you for all of your hard work into this site.
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Name: Don MacNeil
E-mail: dmacneil@ns.sympatico.ca
Website:
From: Thorburn, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date/Time: Saturday, 20 August 2005 14:55
Comments: Say hello to my sister Helen. I'll drop you an email when I have more time to visit your site. Best regards DR
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Name: Thomas Hartvigsen
E-mail: norge_eagle@msn.com
Website:
From: Washougal, Washington, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 20 August 2005 14:55
Comments: I have really enjoyed my visit to your site. The soundbites of Welch names extremely interesting. My ancestry maternally is Welch..... Haven't checked all your site, so I be back. Thank you John Ball for this site.
Tom
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Name: Peggy Burroughs
E-mail: peggyburroughs@cox.net
Website:
From: Annandale, Virginia, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 20 August 2005 14:55
Comments: John, your website is great. There is so much helpful information on Wales. I especially like the photos you post each week. Thanks for helping those of us who aren't very knowledgeable about Wales.
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Name: Alice Helmey
E-mail: gg1531@aol.com
Website:
From: California, United States
Date/Time: Saturday, 20 August 2005 08:25
Comments: John, I love your pictures,and I hope to see these places in person next year.
All of my ancestors on all sides are from England and Wales, there might be a little French or even Scot here and there but the majority are from the Forest of Dean, Upper Machen, etc.
Thank you for letting we who are in the states and might never get to see all there is to see across "the pond" as so often said.
alice
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Name: David Davies
E-mail: forumlead@forumwales.com
Website: http://www.ForumWales.com
From: Wales
Date/Time: Monday, 8 August 2005 08:12
Comments: Great site John. A lot of effort has gone in to creating an informative and interesting site. I wish you continued luck and success with it! As the TV advert used to say "Never forget you're Welsh"!!!
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Name: Velma Davis
E-mail: vptaffy@webtv.net
Website:
From: Ohio, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 6 August 2005 14:32
Comments: Enjoy your work
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Name: Dean Flewwellin
E-mail: funflew4@aol.com
Website:
From: Grand Isle/Houma, Louisiana, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 16 July 2005 23:53
Comments: A special thanks for your time and efforts for this beneficial site, which I'm utilizing to enhance my 200 albums of family genealogy and history + 51 photo albums.Will use your site to help plan a visit to southern Wales (Glamorgan), to pursue my elusive [ancestors]. However, if my health doesn't permit travel, your photography and cultural info is already very much appreciated by myself, my children, and grand-children.
Comments edited to remove ancestral details (John Ball)
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Name: Helen Pursell
E-mail: jhpursell@kooee.com.au
Website:
From: Tasmania, Australia
Date/Time: Sunday, 12 June 2005 08:32
Comments: A very interesting site. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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Name: Val Fleming née Elton
E-mail: waratah@iprimus.com.au
Website: http://www.waratahtasmania.com/
From: Tasmania, Australia
Date/Time: Friday, 10 June 2005 08:16
Comments: Dear John, Your website is a credit to you and a wonderful resource for those of us who live so far away from our family roots. How I wish I could bottle the wonderful feelings that you create with your photography. In this day and age we seems to forget the unsung heroes like yourself. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful photographs with the world.
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Name: S. Ward
E-mail: sward@ait.com
Website:
From: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Date/Time: Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:55
Comments: Nice geneology site. I found you while researching the history of my Irish-German heritage. Very nice photographs.
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Name: Thelma Vaughan
E-mail: tjvon@centurytel.net
Website:
From: Burns, Oregon, USA
Date/Time: Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:05
Comments: Have returned to your Website many times. Beautiful Pictures. Thank you!
G-Grandaughter used some in Heritage Project (about GGGGrandmother born Aberdare 1862). She's nine, became very interested in Wales and her Ancestors.
Best Ever...... Thelma
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Name: Mike Massa
E-mail: mmassa37@verizon.net
Website:
From: Brookings, Oregon, USA
Date/Time: Friday, 20 May 2005 22:19
Comments: Very enjoyable, John.
Best wishes,
M -
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Name: T. Thomas
E-mail: terence.thomas@ntlworld.com
Website:
From: Luton, Bedfordshire, England
Date/Time: Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:16
Comments: Found the site looking for family history. Enjoyed the site so stopped looking. Have a sister in law in Pontardawe. Father was from the Rhonda Valley, Pontypridd.
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Name: Peter Peyer
E-mail: cmspecial@charter.net
Website:
From: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Date/Time: Tuesday, 26 April 2005 03:42
Comments: Yours is one of my favourite websites. I get so much enjoyment from looking over your Wales images. I wish I were able to visit Wales. Thanks for your great work!
Kind regards,
Peter
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Name: Lewis Shugar
E-mail: lewisShugar@comcast.net
Website:
From: Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 23 April 2005 00:50
Comments: Comment not shown. It was not related to nature of website (John Ball)
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Name: Gloria Brice
E-mail: gloriabrice@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Essex, England
Date/Time: Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:34
Comments: Great page. So pleased to find a photo of the church where my maternal grandparents married in 1908, St.Sannan's, the parish church for Bedwellty.
I did visit it last year but sadly my snaps never came out?
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Name: James Lott Lloyd
E-mail: jimlloyd1929@yahoo.com
Website:
From: Austin, Texas, USA
Date/Time: Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:02
Comments: Your website is very well done. My immigrant ancestor was born in London on Old Christmas Day 1704. His father was from Wales, but I don't have firm info on him yet. Some indications are that he was born in Cardiff.
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Name: Dot Soar
E-mail: dotsoar@yahoo.com
Website:
From: South Africa
Date/Time: Sunday, 3 April 2005 13:45
Comments: I am so glad I came across your website when researching PARIS. Your photographs are stunning! I visited my relative Ted Thurgood in Cardiff last June and thought Wales really lovely.
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Name: Mildred Majors
E-mail: midge.majors@verizon.net
Website:
From: Oregon, USA
Date/Time: Friday, 01 April 2005 00:25
Comments: I particularly enjoyed the tribute to the Isle of Man as some of my ancesters lived there.
Lots of useful information and I really appreciate your answering my e-mail.
Keep up the good work.
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Name: David Rowlands
E-mail: drowlands@iolfree.ie
Website:
From: I am living in Ireland
Date/Time: Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:03
Comments: Comment not shown. It was not related to nature of website (John Ball)
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Name: Liz
E-mail: kekauohas@aol.com
Website:
From: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Date/Time: Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:52
Comments: Just wanted to say how wonderful your site is. I am researching my Welsh family genealogy (Twigg) and your site has provided a wealth of information.
Thank you so much for putting this on the internet.
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Name: Mair Reed
E-mail: mair.reed@tiscali.fr
Website:
From: Bussiere Boffy, Haute Vienne, France
Date/Time: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:46
Comments: Very interesting web-site with lots of information. Particularly interested in the French section as we are living now on the Charente-Limousin border, but still have children living back in Wales. When we have the "hiraeth" to go back we visit quite often.
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Name: Nina Bounds
E-mail: islandprincessnina@yahoo.com
Website:
From: High Desert, Ca
Date/Time: Saturday, 12 March 2005 22:41
Comments: I enjoyed reading your website with the pics of your family. My family also immigrated from Wales, very interesting history and beautiful. Thanks for the info.
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Name: Jonh
E-mail: lixodanet@gmail.com
Website:
From: USA
Date/Time: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:32
Comments: Excellent work!
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Name: Teddy Markhart
E-mail: foxfordgrad@yahoo.com
Website:
From: Washington USA
Date/Time: Sunday, 6 March 2005 07:35
Comments: What a fasinating, interesting and informative site! My dad was from Mountain Ash and I will be visiting Wales to do research end of April. The information on your web site is going to be of great help and value while I am there. Thanks! Best Wishes, Teddy
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Name: Mike Mitchell
E-mail: mitchell647@123flowershop.com
Website:
From:
Date/Time: Monday, 28 February 2005 17:15
Comments: Great job, keep up the good work that you are doing here.
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Name: Nancy Houser
E-mail: drnlh@aol.com
Website:
From: Isle of Palms, South Carolina, USA
Date/Time: Saturday, 26 February 2005 01:01
Comments: Beautiful site. I'm doing family genealogy, my grandfather was born in Wales but died when Mom was 3. I need the education. Plan to visit Wales in 2005.
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Name: Thomas A. Bush
E-mail: tombillie@sbcglobal.net
Website:
From: visalia, calif.
Date/Time: Thursday, 24 February 2005 00:24
Comments: You have a very nice site, with exceptionally good pictures and info.
we are planning to be in Wales in april so i am trying to aquire some info prior to our trip. i have a cousin ann roberts in caerphilly, mid glamor. thanks again for the info and good luck to you and yours.
tom bush
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Name: Kenny Kaneen
E-mail: kennykaneen@aol.com
Website:
From: co.durham. late of ramsey
Date/Time: Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:56
Comments: just browsed in
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Name: Liam Duggan & Rosalind Chimesh
E-mail: liam.duggan@fsmail.net
Website:
From: Leek, Staffordshire, England
Date/Time: Friday, 18 February 2005 20:31
Comments: Excellent website. Found it when researching a family member who was in the Ox & Bucks LI during the First World War. Combines two of our main interests - the first world war and cats!
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Name: Des Steel
E-mail: joydes@sympatico.ca
Website:
From: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Date/Time: Monday, 7 February 2005 22:11
Comments: Absolutely brilliant site. Must take a ton of work. Well done.
Des Steel
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Name: Steve Thomas
E-mail: set1941@yahoo.com
Website:
From: Clover, South Carolina, USA
Date/Time: Tuesday, 1 February 2005 03:52
Comments: thank you very much for providing much education, and enjoyment to the internet.
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Name: Emilie Sigel
E-mail: eseagull@aol.com
Website:
From: Raleigh, North Carolina USA
Date/Time: Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:39
Comments: We will be visiting Pembrokeshire in April. Your lovely photos have whetted my appetite for the real thing. We spent a week in Wales 20 years ago- it's been way too long a time between visits-but in the meantime, I'll be enjoying your website. Thanks!
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Name: Linda Sentelik
E-mail: TheTinmansWife@aol.com
Website:
From: Mogadore, Ohio USA
Date/Time: Monday, 24 January 2005 10:23
Comments: What a terrific website. Thank you so much for providing this service. I hope to visit Wales one day. It's such a beautiful country, and I'm so proud to be able to trace my family roots to her shores.
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Name: Elaine Hancock
E-mail: elaineh@landinfo.net.nz
Website:
From: New Zealand
Date/Time: Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:56
Comments: Absolutely great!.I looked up Pengam as my son is in Wales at present, and seeing a girl from Pengam. I originally came from Risca and really wasn't sure where Pengam was!!!! What a great find!
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Name: John Andrew Ball
E-mail: aball42@hotmail.com
Website:
From: Isle of Man
Date/Time: Friday, 7 January 2005 23:07
Comments: fantastic website! liked the information on the isle of man as i currently live in peel on the island.
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Name: Liza Murey
E-mail: lizamurey@hotmail.com
Website:
From: America
Date/Time: Friday, 7 January 2005 06:13
Comments: Site is fantastic - more of the same please!! Keep up the great work :)
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