Happy Pride! In my latest genealogy blog, I talk about the similarities between our work as family historians & LGBTQ culture. I’ve also included a list of resources to help you find queer ancestors and tell their stories. #Genealogy https://genealcymru.com/2026/06/19/welsh-family-history-lgbt-pride-2026/

My latest from the Ancestors Lost by Suicide Project, the story of Bessie whose family did a lot of work for the war effort in WWI plus some thoughts & resources on surviving fascism & working together to make a better world. #Genealogy #Wales #Suicide https://genealcymru.com/2026/06/12/albsc-welsh-family-history-suicide-london/

Under the looming threat of war, 1939, my Welsh ancestor, Rees Williams, sat down to write a poem to help him process his own personal tragedy. Rees was a brother of my Grampie’s Grandmother. Check out my newest Ancestral Poetry story: #Genealogy #Wales #Poetry https://genealcymru.com/2026/05/22/welsh-ancestors-poetry-tombstone-wwii/

A bit #Genealogy disappointed. I have a book that says Rev. Moses Davis of Tarling, Essex, who died in 1765 was "a cousin of my wife." The author's wife is my 8x great grandma's sister. I was working on it today for a presentation & I realised that it only says that in the 1885 copy. The original copy from 1776 doesn't say that (at least not in that section). Turns out that the 1885 copy was edited by Rev. B. Davies, who "made many additions." Sigh. Now I'm unsure what's true. :(

The FindMyPast free weekend has begun. Time to grab all the 1921 Censues for my ancestors! #Genealogy

Today my mum asked why my Grampie was Anglican if so many of our ancestors were non/conformists (i.e., Wesleyan methodists, Unitarians, Calvinistic Methodists, Baptists, Independents). I thought maybe religion just wasn't that important to him & his parents cause my Grandma said she never went to church when she lived with them. So I asked my Grandma, & she said when he signed up for the Navy, he said he didn't have any religion, so they just put him down as Anglican. Interesting. #Genealogy

I thought that I had found a new Timothy to research for my Timothy First Name Study. I was all excited, 'til now, when I realise I've already researched his great & great great grandparents for a different project. I was hoping he'd lead me to new lines that would maybe go past the 1790s. But cool to see that he married into my Walters' family & his wife's 2x grandfather's sister's father-in-law was friends with his great grandmother's brother. #Genealogy

With the end of the free FMP newspapers weekend, I was able to do an exhaustive search for "Pentrebrain" farm, where my 5x grandma's brother's descendants lived & I searched for a bunch of descendants of my 7x grandma's brother. Found all kinds of new 20th C. people & some who left Cardiganshire for London, which is always hard to trace. Some lines that ended in 1911 now go into the 1950s. So that was lots of fun. #Genealogy

I way overdid the FMP free newspapers yesterday & now I never want to see an agricultural society meeting article ever again. #Genealogy