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My paternal family is Evans and my maternal family is Jones ! But I have been finding them. Put requests on here and this clever lot will help you out. My Jones were from South Wales as well and the problem I found was mis-spelling Names and places on census entries.

I did a Jones tree for my nephew a while ago. They were from South Wales and I didn't hold out much hope but his grandfather turned out to have a unique first name and I eventually got several generations back. I then looked at some of the names which married into the family. There were several names just as tricky as Jones but one more unusual one turned up and led to a well researched family that went back to the 16th century. So nephew ended up with a sizeable tree though off at a tangent to the Jones.

Good luck and I am sure lots of folks on here will help.

Best wishes
Sue

You start by getting birth,marriage and death certs.

I had my SIL's Brown family to do and it is the only way.

Also helps if you know what they did for a living.

I'd say go for it (but then I have no Welsh ancestry at all!) I do have Smith ancestors and thought that the line would be impossible, but it does quite quickly go back to a small village with distinctive surnames.

If you have them in a family, then the combination of names and ages of each family member, together with the place of birth, make it at least likely that you can trace them from one census to another.

The tricky bit comes when you have to detach them from one family and connect them to another (either to parents or to children).

At least the whole period is covered by certificates to get very precise addresses.

Hi Stephanie

Do you know whereabouts in Wales your Jones comes from and his/her full name?

Gill

Does anyone have any advice on how to go about researching a Jones from Wales! I'm talking about 1850-80 sort of time. Is it really a lost cause or are there some hints and tips that you think could help?

I'd appreciate any helpful ideas!

Regards


Stephanie