News
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Editor’s Resignation
A letter has been sent to the past editor accepting her resignation and thanking her for the work she has done in the past.
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Blackwood – Can we find anything?
The members of the Blackwood Branch were busy on Tuesday 9th June researching and helping each other. Some people were really pleased that they found new families and sorted out
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Ebbw Vale – DNA Testing – Phil Davies
A Cautionary Tale (with excuses for the bad rhymes) The following is a warning To all of you out there I’ll tell of my experience
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Blackwood – Welsh girls ‘in service’
In our May meeting, we were very pleased to welcome Rosemary Scadden, author of the recently-published book ‘No Job for a Little Girl’. Her well-researched talk
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Blackwood – Help Desk New Tredegar Library
Kay and Rhona enjoyed helping two members of the public who visited the help desk, managing to trace their family right back to 1803
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Blackwood – SWAGTIME
Great excitement – time for our visit to the South West Area Group FH Fair in Weston-super-Mare, our transport perfectly organized, as always, by Mrs Anne Vinnicombe. We assembled at […]
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Did you know Einwen Evans?
At the Swag Fair on Saturday 16th May 2015, we were approached by the lady from Balmaiden Books, who had a folder containing information about a Newport girl named Einwen […]
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Pontypool – Trevethin Open Day
Last Saturday, 2nd May 2015, representatives of Pontypool Branch attended an open day at Trevethin Church (St Cadoc’s). The theme for the day was the 125th.anniversary of the Llanerch colliery […]
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Off to Kew – 18 April
It’s that time of year again, as we ‘winged’ our way to Kew last Saturday there was a quiet expectancy among the ‘family’, or maybe it was just tiredness, it […]
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Blackwood – Brought up tidy, a rogue family
This month we were entertained by one of our own members, who impressed us with the results of her research. We heard of ancestors who