This postI’m drooling.
Maybe that’s not the most elegant way to start off a post, nor is it literally true, but I sure feel like I’m drooling. See, I’ve been checking out Ancestry’s OneWorldTree, just to see what research other people have done on my lines, and I’ve hit a gold mine. It may end up being fool’s gold, but it’s a motherlode nonetheless. I’ve written about it over at Footprints from the Past.
The best part is that I’ve finally found some Welsh ancestors! There are some problems with the pedigree on OWT (like the fact that Charles Thomas was born quite a while after Philip Thomas died), but I have a gut feeling that it’s basically on the right track. Which means I’m from Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire and all those wonderful places I’ve been in love with since I was a kid. Reading the Time and Mr. Bass series and The Dark Is Rising and all those kinds of books is probably what did it. Speaking of The Dark Is Rising, I also found a few ancestors from Cornwall. This is soooooo cool. :)
Granted, it could all be erroneous, but “Thomas” is a Welsh last name and it’s verified that it belongs to my ancestors, so there definitely is Welsh blood in me. And I’m proud of it! I need to learn Welsh…
Anyway, the four FHE groups in my ward are coming in to our lab at work (two tomorrow night and two next week), and I’ve been assigned to train them for an hour on beginning genealogy. (Our stake has a goal to have every member find two names and take them to the temple by August 4.) So I’d better prepare all that. I’m really glad I don’t have any homework for the next two months. :) My new task is collecting all the information on my lines (from OWT) and entering it into Beyond (once Beyond’s working) so that I can start sorting it into fact and fiction.
P.S. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a city in Wales. I have a suspicion your browser is going to have a heyday trying to fit it in. If it messes up the sidebar, so be it. :)
