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We are very fortunate in having list members who are actively engaged in other genealogical projects. Look out for regular List Members:

• Gareth Hicks  runs Genuki Wales website full of information and also a Help page.  His Cwmgors a'r Waun site,  is slanted towards Welsh genealogy.
• Dai Bevan is admin for the Dyfed Mailing List where you will find experts on many subjects willing to help. Dai also has a Duffryn-Clydach website
• John Ball who contributes photographs of areas of Wales on his personal website John's Homepage. John is administrator of the excellently run Powys List.
• Jeff Coleman who maintains our Glamorgan Mailing List and gives detailed help with family history requests. Jeff is particularly knowledgeable about the Swansea valley.
• Jill Muir runs this website and the Welsh Chapels and Churches Photographic Web site and helps as Joint List Administrator for the Glamorgan List. She has a website on Transcribing Gravestones.

Map of Glamorgan

This shows the industrial area of South Wales which is Glamorgan. I would not wish by that sentence to give visitors who have never been there the wrong impression. Apart from the industry there are many areas of outstanding natural beauty, such as the Gower Coast

Cardiff is a major shopping venue with many other attractions too. Merthyr Tydfil, once renowned for its iron throughout the world, is right on the edge of Breconshire, which is now called Powys. This is a most delightful county in its own right. My brother David and I used to be taken on picnics from Merthyr into Breconshire, and here we kids were set free from the adults to build dams in the stream and pick windberries [small blueberries, but with a sweeter taste]. These were such innocent and truly happy days! We were never bored yet we were without mobiles and i-pods!!

If you wish to see some stunning scenery and photos of Wales, do look at John Ball's website.

This map of Wales shows Glamorgan as the most highly industrialized area.
On the right the county of Gwent is the former historic county of Monmouth.