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Sorry to disappoint, Gaynor -- nobody replying to you is related, and nobody related is likely ever to see your post, unfortunately.

The best way to find anyone who is a member here and is related to any of your family is to put a family tree with all the known names and birthdates on the site, and search trees here for anyone else who has the same people (the Search Trees button at the top of your screen). Gazillions of people have family trees here; only a tiny fraction of them (or of the population) ever reads these boards.

You're probably reading the James "surname board"? If so -- click Trying to Find on the left, then click "to view the entire trying to find board again, *click here*".

There's a post at the top of the board then that gives a general idea of how things work. Also, just browse a few of the other threads to get a feel. You can find your own threads anytime by clicking "My threads" on the left.

If you search trees and do find someone who seems to share family with ou, you click on their name to send a private the message. If they have a current email address on this system, they'll receive a notice of the message from you.


Meanwhile, if the rest of us members here can help find descendants of your gr-grparents (most of us pay for access to databases like at Ancestry where we can search for births, marriages and deaths), you do need to give more specific info -- like the names you know, e.g. of your mother's uncles/aunts/cousins, and (at least approx) dates of birth.

FreeBMD -- the link I gave above --

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

is free and easy to search, and the marriages of your mother's aunts/uncles and possibly their children might be findable there (FreeBMD is not complete up to the present day yet; most of us here subscribe to Ancestry for things like the Margaret Hannah James death I put above -- and you haven't yet said whether that marriage and death are your gr-grmother.)

Hope that helps!

For example -- if that marriage *is* your gr-grparents, these would likely be their children born after 1911 -- I simply searched at FreeBMD for births with surname James and mother Warn:

Births Mar 1918
James Raymond V Warn Bedwellty 11a 205

Births Dec 1919
James Ronald A Warn Bedwellty 11a 263

Births Mar 1922
James Margaret B Warn Bedwellty 11a 226

Births Sep 1925
James Joyce I Warn Bedwellty 11a 199

After about 1925 we don't post birth details here as the person might be living, but 1925 is the last one in that list.

Your grandfather William Horace shows as William Harris in the 1911, presumably.

That's the kind of information that's needed if what you want to do is find living relations -- both for you to search trees and for others to help find their marriages and children's births (and that info would be sent to you by private message because those people would likely be living).

So if you confirm that information ... and confirm that tihs is what you're wanting to do ...

Hi Janey,
Yes, Maggie Warn Is my great grandmother.

Okay, well, I hope what I've said has helped.



You have "Maize" James born 1909 in Tredegar in your tree.

Actually, she was

Births Mar 1909
James Violet Maisie Bedwelty 11a 165

so anyone else searching for her as Violet James won't find you.

You also have Evelyn, 1908, Tredegar. She was really:

Births Sep 1907
James Evelyn Udora Bedwellty 11a 114


You see, censuses aren't accurate sources for birthdates, since someone whose birthday was after the date of the census will show (by calculation) as being born a year later than they really were.

Hello,i have family relatives,in south Wales who are named James,i dont know a lot of the family either,but my great grandmother was Martha James ..her father was John and mother was elizabeth Phillips..i have tree here ..if this helps in any way email me..go to gwenth ryan and i'll give you access...i also have tree on tribalpages.com ill give you access there as well,
go to id.. englishandwelsh .cheers Lynne(gwenth)

Hi Gaynor, once you have digested all the info Janey has provided for you...do take her up on the suggestion of putting your family names into the search trees box above.

I have had a quick look and 2 other people on this site have your grandmother in their tree. It may be worth contacting them for further info on your family.

I only tried with your grandmother's name but it's quite possible you have quite a few connections on here.

If you want to contact Gwenth, just click on her name and send your message by pm (private message).

I do hope this helps and that you find the family connections you are looking for. Cx