Dear Janet, I can identify with that. We have recently been to Trefeglwys
where we found graves belonging to family members with additional
information that we did not have and an elderly lady claimed us as cousins!
I have not yet worked out the connection but as her cousins are now in
possession of the farm that my gt gt gt grandfather had i have no doubt that
she is right. We moved on to Llandinam and the amount of information and
leads we got was almost overwhelming I am still working on the leads from
there. My husband has just discovered family he did bot know he had from a
visit to Abertillery. A visit is very well worth while. Margaret
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From: janet rowlands <jan.rowlands(a)ntlworld.com>
To: <POWYS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:20 PM
Subject: [POWYS] Approaches to research
dear all,
To illustrate just how important it is to use more than just
the net for research I would like to tell you about a recent visit my
husband and I made to the area his family came from.
First of all we were told that there might still be people with our
name in the village so we looked in the phone book and as there was we
rang the number and found a descendant of our gggrandfather. We
arranged a visit and on arrival found that there were other Rowlands
in the area. Also we tramped around the local cementaries and saw the
graves of gggfather and gggrandmother, plus the graves of two children
we didn't know they had.We were welcomed by a very old lady into her
home which had been the butchers shop of our Grandfather in 1902 and
found the shop area almost exactly as he left it. The butchers block
and the scales were still there as was the ornate wall tiling and the
shelving, it was truly amazing.
It was even great fun to be addressed by strangers with the greeting
"oh you've come to visit Mary about your family"
We had a very pleasant day out and learnt more in that one day
about our family than we would have ever have learnt on the net. So
don't miss out, if you can possibly visit do so. We are very glad we
did JAN
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