Genealogy researchhhhhhhh?

Marion Wieboldt: Ancestry has as good as any DNA testing, Being able to document your family back to the 1500's is quite good. Most people cannot document much after the world wars in Europe because so much was destroyed,.Names originate in a language and have little to do with the origin of a family. IF your Paternal Great-Grandfathers wife was not your Great-Grandmother you are not related to any one in her family and finally IF you have taken pedigree chart information undocumented charts on Ancestry (ancestry charts alone are not documentation) you really have a lot of documenting to do...Show more

Elsie Resner: " I was only able to trace my great grandfathers on my dads side back to 1513 in England" and what records were those, considering parish records only go back to the mid 1550s AT BEST and MOST don't go back much before 1700..................as Charles ll the bald of France 823-877 ( I 'found' out that I 'might') found and might don't come into genalog! y research, it is PROVED , FACTUAL and that is from REAL RECORDS..following the paper trail of records , cross referencing and finding enough connecting records suitable for FH research is the only way you will find your ancestry and you will NEVER be able to prove ancesry back to then........ the majority of researchers who can sit at kew and have access to their whole archive of REAL records can't get back much before 1750......... I think you need to start to prove some of your earlier information, you know from yourself back say 150 years, once you have established proof, meaning 3 primary records for EACH event, for EACH person in your tree, you can be as close to sure you have proved those........and that should take you 10-20 years IF you have access to British archives and records offices as MOST records are not online, even from the archives.........You are aware that Britain ( which includes Wales) and France are only 24 miles apart, you are not going to find out ! via a DNA ..at best it will be EuropeYou are assuming that sur! names used today are 'Welsh' , surnames..... in Wales today surnames are nothing like the Celtic surnames of origin and were not Welsh but from the Celtic langauge, which is Cornwall ( England) Ireland, Scotland and Wales....so there are VERY few real Welsh names, such as Goronwy, Gwyn, Madog and Bleddyn...Show more