Quote Originally Posted by Norm NZ View Post
Started doing mine a few years ago but got very frustrated!! With Welsh ancestry, and names such as Davies, Jones, Hughes, and Roberts, I seemed to be going around in circles!! only got as far as grandparents!
oh tell me about it. I was a Roberts and wasn't getting far until a distant Welsh cousin contacted me through Genes reunited. He'd done quite a bit of the Welsh side, couldn't believe my luck. also turns out one side of his Scottish roots are distantly related to the Body Shop Roddicks!

he even sent me a photo of our shared gtgtgt taid's grave in Anglesey.

other family surnames are also more common than expected, Sealby, Gatcliffe and even Devereux. and the transcribers for the online services often misspell them, making them harder to look up.

still it's been fascinating and quite spooky some of the coincidences thrown up. I've lived near several places my forebears did and didn't even know.