Hello Richard
Welcome to the list! Do not judge a list by its archives or by recent activity. RootsWeb
lists have been offline for many months and just be re-established. Staff are working on
recovering and restoring list archives, but that is slow going.
Yes, it would behoove you to join the Denbighshire list and the DAVIES list and any other
relevant to your research, but I would query one list at a time. Wait until you see if
any help emerges from this list and, if not, go on to the next list.
Also consider posting to the message boards (
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/). They
are free and only require the same information as subscribing to the lists: a name and a
valid email address. Cross-posting on the boards is very strongly discouraged, so if you
do post there, be sure to carefully consider on which board to post.
Tell us what evidence you have that your ancestor was born in Wales. Someone on this list
might be able to point you in the right direction.
Kind regards,
Lynne
list owner
PS Your post was held for my approval because of its size. I suspect you might be
posting in MIME. RootsWeb requires subscribers to post in plain text.
history <black_barrie(a)bigpond.com> wrote:
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>Hi all
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>Just joined so my first post to this list. My interest is in a William Davies, born
probably Dec 1882, possibly Llanrhaiadr Y M, Denbighshire. I have his marriage and some of
his subsequent life with the Police in Shropshire but his birth record eludes me. However
my question is about which list to join. Initially I looked at WLS-Denbighshire but while
that had posts going back many years they were thin on the ground in recent years. By
contrast Wales-Gen seemed to be very active but on joining all I can see is a few general
posts in 2018 and nothing else.
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>So should I join all potentially relevant mailing lists or is that ‘politically’ a no
no? Is Wales-Gen relevant to my search for just one family or is it a more general forum?
I hope this doesn’t give offence to anyone but some guidance would be appreciated
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>RichardBarrie
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>NSW Australia