Tag: ancestry

• Yma o Hyd in My Blood: What My DNA Reveals About the Welsh Story

  When we explore family history, we often begin with parish registers, gravestones, and sepia photographs. Yet DNA now allows us to go far deeper, reaching back not hundreds but thousands of years. My own paternal line — the Davies men of Montgomeryshire — has recently been confirmed as belonging to a branch called R-L96. This…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  26/08/2025

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• Tea and Waterfalls: John and Jane Waters of the Llyfnant Valley

  By Antony David Davies FRSA John and Jane Waters, my grandmother’s aunt and uncle, stand with their daughter at the doorway of Tymawr in the Llyfnant Valley — welcoming Edwardian visitors to their farmhouse tea room, nestled in the peaceful hills near Machynlleth. In the remote folds of the Llyfnant Valley in north-west Montgomeryshire—where waterfalls…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  04/08/2025

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