Thanks Arranroots. I didn't know that link existed ! I too have noticed the lack of action on the Carmarthenshire boards! Maybe this is one of those areas where they have a good oral tradition and don't feel the need to go rooting anywhere else which in turn means they are not available on sites like this to answer queries etc?? What do other rootschatters think?
Hi Liverpool lass,
I can tell you why I don't post on the Carmarthenshire board that often ( every single one of my own welsh lines go back into Carmarthenshire from Glamorgan. Most of my husband's lines go back there too ) Actually my above statement can't be quite true as looking at my own stats it's apparently my third most popular board by posts after the common room and beginners. It's also my most popular board by activity, which is a total suprise to me as I wouldn't have though they were my most popular:
Anyway, I find there is not much point posting my own requests as most of my brick walls are before census and BMD time.( I think I've only posted two requests, most of my posts in there were answering others - Both my requests went unanswered, one was about Dryslwyn ( it seems to be missing from one of the censuses) and the other was over a year ago requesting a look up in 41 I think, which I have found my man now)
- Carmarthenshire does not have much printed matter and Cd's for sale unlike Glamorganshire which is good for compiled data( which is thanks mainly to the Glamorgan society ). The Carmarthenshire society seems very hopeless to me compared to the Glamorgan society. Many people ( as I do too) own Glamorganshire Cd's , i.e. marriage cd's, baptism cd's etc etc for the whole of Glamorgan. Carmarthenshire is not that good in this respect to what is available for sale; Hence why you won't get that many answers to some requests.
I think you need to research Carmarthenshire lines in the record office, which is a bit impossible for me as I'm not currently in the Uk to do so.
I used to post in there answering some of the census look up requests as I have some of the Carmarthen censuses on CD, but I've recently stopped doing so since ancestry have put all the censuses online as most of the look ups now get answered pretty quickly by others.
I pop in there from time to time to see if anyone is researching the same people as I am. I will answer a request if I think I know the answer to it or can help in anyway, but for things like Baptism and marriage look ups etc etc before BMD time I can't.
I'm finding Carmarthenshire is a real pain to research if you are not in Wales to research it . The Carmarthen society don't even seem to want to contribute their material to most of the big umbrella sites such as the federation of family history societies online. It is a real pain trying to research my own families in Carmarthenshire. I'm almost resigned to the fact that I 've gone as far as I can with my own Carmarthen families until I go home and can get to the archives to research them.
Kind regards
