Showing posts with label Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jones. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 June 2007

What's your motivation to write your Welsh Family History?


What's your motivation to write your Welsh Family History?

[Pictured right: the Elm Street Welsh Congregational Chapel, the oldest standing religious structure in Youngstown, Ohio, once at the heart of Welsh American Settlements in America.]

Do any of these words sound familiar? Empty Nest, Baby Boomer Blues, Retirement, AARP, Obituaries, Eulogies, Caregiver, Alzheimer’s, Pensions, Social Security, Grandchildren?

Are you experiencing the lonely ‘culture shock’ of aging, retirement, sickness, chronic illness, unemployment, children growing up and leaving home ‘Empty Nest Syndrome’, Divorce, becoming a Widow/Widower, recently single, or relocating to another city?

Perhaps you have a mind filled with memories, and you realize that when you go, all the memories will go with you? What can you do now to pass this knowledge along to your heirs and posterity?

At Welsh American Family Genealogy, we believe there’s no better ‘Empty Nest’ activity than researching your Welsh family history and creating a legacy for future generations. You don’t have to be rich to leave behind an enduring heritage for your children and heirs.

What’s important is that you use the time wisely. If you would like to simulate your mind each day and stay young through constructive activities, than genealogy might be right for you!

Write to us and tell us your questions. We might not know the exact answer, but think of this as a daily adventure – thousands of other online readers will ‘pick their brains’ to help you!

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Some of the Topics discussed here include: Creativity, Empty Nest Activities, Baby Boomer Blues, Retirement, AARP, Memoirs, Biography, Legacy, Heritage, Ancestry, Ancestor Worship, Burial, Graves, Family Bibles, Birth Certificates, Death Certificates, Chapel and Parish Records, British Library, and the Welsh National Library.

We've already received emails about the Llandaf Cathedral, Discovering the Past, Souvenirs, Collecting Heirlooms, Inheritance, Memorial, Remembrance, yn Cofio, Tombstones, Obituaries, Eulogies, Mining Communities, Slate Quarry Communities, Immigrants, Emigrants, Settlers, Pioneers, and Canadian Welsh Colonies.

Folks want to know more about the Welsh Eisteddfod, Gymanfa Ganu, Hymns, Sermons, Chapels, Nonconformist, Quakers, Baptists, Welsh Mormon, Welsh Unitarians, Welsh Presbyterians, The Salvation Army, Welsh Methodists, Calvinist-Presbyterian, Hiraeth, Hwyl, Cadw, Welsh Tourism, Cymru, Cymraeg, Cymreig, Cymro, Cambria, Welsh Valleys, Coal Mining, Welsh Towns, Cartref Cymreig, Welsh Sunday School, Welsh Poetry, Welsh Actors, Welsh writers, Welsh Harpists, Welsh Rubgy, Welsh Football, Welsh Cricket, Daffodils, Leeks, Taffy, Red Dragon, and the Ddragon Goch.

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Monday, 7 May 2007

Are Your Ancestors Welsh?


You are Welsh, your ancestors were Welsh, you are interested in Wales, you live in Wales or you wish you did - whatever your reason, join the community today.

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Sunday, 6 May 2007

Top 40 Welsh Surnames - Find Your Family and Genealogy in Wales


Mike 1024 says, 'I looked some figures up on this a year or two for a school project. These figures are from a study totalling names from the 6 Wales telephone directories.'

Here are the most common 40 surnames:

Jones - 60.57 per thousand
Williams - 37.81 per thousand
Davies - 36.76 per thousand
Evans - 24.66 per thousand
Thomas - 22.97 per thousand
Roberts - 17.14 per thousand
Hughes - 13.38 per thousand
Lewis - 12.96 per thousand
Morgan - 11.7 per thousand
Griffiths - 10.9 per thousand
Edwards - 10.33 per thousand
Owen - 8.85 per thousand
James - 7.66 per thousand
Morris - 7.5 per thousand
Price - 7.5 per thousand
Rees - 7.3 per thousand
Phillips - 6.34 per thousand
Jenkins - 6.23 per thousand
Harris - 5.79 per thousand
Lloyd - 5.64 per thousand
Richards - 5.51 per thousand
Powell - 4.72 per thousand
Parry - 4.49 per thousand
John - 3.65 per thousand
Watkins - 3.39 per thousand
Howells - 3.25 per thousand
Pritchard - 3.14 per thousand
Rogers - 2.71 per thousand
Matthews - 2.37 per thousand
Rowlands - 2.35 per thousand
Humphreys - 2.22 per thousand
Pugh - 2.19 per thousand
Ellis - 2.17 per thousand
Bowen - 2.17 per thousand
Hopkins - 2.14 per thousand
Martin - 1.91 per thousand
Bennett - 1.86 per thousand
Bevan - 1.69 per thousand
Pearse - 1.65 per thousand
Adams - 1.61 per thousand

These top 40 surnames only cover 38% of the welsh population, but this could easily be explained by varying numbers of people per telephone, studies taken from different eras, et cetera. Welsh-American Family Genealogy

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