In 1998 I was asked by my grandmother to find a living relative of her father. This task sounded easy so I accepted her request. Little did I know that my great grandfather, John Edwards, gave incorrect information throughout his adult life, including his birth date. Over the course of the next two years my research brought me to Wales. I wrote over 50 families in Wales and received many responses. I also wrote a county registrar and received promising leads. Within the first two weeks I received confirmed information about John's birth. I continued writing many leads through mainly postal mail and a few correspondences via email.

One of my original letters was forwarded to a wonderful couple, Eryl and Edwena, who contacted me to say that they were asked by their good friend, to help me in my endeavor. I gave Eryl and Edwena all the information I had collected. Within a short time, Eryl and Edwena had found a first cousin to my grandmother. Our newly found cousin John was 88 years old and was a book of knowledge.

In 2002 I traveled to Wales with my 78 year old grandmother, and both of my parents. We met four family members, two have since passed. It was a wonderful experience meeting our long lost family and also seeing the homes and chapels of our ancestors.

After my travels, I took several years off from researching; I was burnt out from lack of sleep. Recently, I was asked to update my files and to help on other branches of my family tree. I was shocked, to say the least, how many more researchers and how much information is now on the internet. I have been able to add over 400 people to my family tree and I have many more to add, I just can't type as fast as I am finding the information.

I was pleasantly contacted from Wales with a new branch of the family looking for their cousin John who went to America. I have now added over ten living cousins to my genealogy website where we can send emails and posts to one another. With their help, I have been able to locate even more relatives in Wales but am currently waiting for their response.

My most recent addition to my family tree is a fellow researcher. A cousin from they Craig/Myers side. Bruce has provided me with a lot of information that I am incorporating into my records. Finding family is a wonderful feeling.

I am researching, Edwards from Wales, Johnston's from Ireland, Urie from Scotland but this branch has been completed, Wingert's from Germany, Sells/Zellen/Sellen from France and Germany, Craig's so far in the USA only, Wonderly's which I haven't started this branch but much information is online already, Joas from Germany and now the Myers family. I know there are many more to list. My eldest line goes back into the late 1400's. My shortest line is eight generations long, with four of the eight still living.

I am happy to help anyone, just ask.

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If I have management claims to a memorial you want to manage, just ask. Please use the EDIT tab from the persons memorial, then click on Suggest any other correction or addition. I am only interested in keeping my family. If I have claimed your family or friend it was to help with taking a picture or giving information. It saddens me that there are people on findagrave that control another person's family and if that family member does not fit under the recommended guidelines for a transfer, the said person denies a request. I was denied my aunts memorial, a woman who helped raise me 10 years of my life, because her classmate decided I didn't meet the requirements to transfer the memorial to. It broke my heart. I do not want to do that to someone else, so please ask.

In 1998 I was asked by my grandmother to find a living relative of her father. This task sounded easy so I accepted her request. Little did I know that my great grandfather, John Edwards, gave incorrect information throughout his adult life, including his birth date. Over the course of the next two years my research brought me to Wales. I wrote over 50 families in Wales and received many responses. I also wrote a county registrar and received promising leads. Within the first two weeks I received confirmed information about John's birth. I continued writing many leads through mainly postal mail and a few correspondences via email.

One of my original letters was forwarded to a wonderful couple, Eryl and Edwena, who contacted me to say that they were asked by their good friend, to help me in my endeavor. I gave Eryl and Edwena all the information I had collected. Within a short time, Eryl and Edwena had found a first cousin to my grandmother. Our newly found cousin John was 88 years old and was a book of knowledge.

In 2002 I traveled to Wales with my 78 year old grandmother, and both of my parents. We met four family members, two have since passed. It was a wonderful experience meeting our long lost family and also seeing the homes and chapels of our ancestors.

After my travels, I took several years off from researching; I was burnt out from lack of sleep. Recently, I was asked to update my files and to help on other branches of my family tree. I was shocked, to say the least, how many more researchers and how much information is now on the internet. I have been able to add over 400 people to my family tree and I have many more to add, I just can't type as fast as I am finding the information.

I was pleasantly contacted from Wales with a new branch of the family looking for their cousin John who went to America. I have now added over ten living cousins to my genealogy website where we can send emails and posts to one another. With their help, I have been able to locate even more relatives in Wales but am currently waiting for their response.

My most recent addition to my family tree is a fellow researcher. A cousin from they Craig/Myers side. Bruce has provided me with a lot of information that I am incorporating into my records. Finding family is a wonderful feeling.

I am researching, Edwards from Wales, Johnston's from Ireland, Urie from Scotland but this branch has been completed, Wingert's from Germany, Sells/Zellen/Sellen from France and Germany, Craig's so far in the USA only, Wonderly's which I haven't started this branch but much information is online already, Joas from Germany and now the Myers family. I know there are many more to list. My eldest line goes back into the late 1400's. My shortest line is eight generations long, with four of the eight still living.

I am happy to help anyone, just ask.

Findagrave.com TRANSFERS
If I have management claims to a memorial you want to manage, just ask. Please use the EDIT tab from the persons memorial, then click on Suggest any other correction or addition. I am only interested in keeping my family. If I have claimed your family or friend it was to help with taking a picture or giving information. It saddens me that there are people on findagrave that control another person's family and if that family member does not fit under the recommended guidelines for a transfer, the said person denies a request. I was denied my aunts memorial, a woman who helped raise me 10 years of my life, because her classmate decided I didn't meet the requirements to transfer the memorial to. It broke my heart. I do not want to do that to someone else, so please ask.