Centimorgans (cMs) are one of the most important numbers you’ll encounter in your DNA results, but what do they actually mean? In this guide, we explain how shared cMs help estimate family relationships, why the numbers vary, and how to use them to make sense of your Welsh ancestry.
Learn which DNA testing company is best for Welsh family history research. We compare AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe to help you choose the right test and maximise your chances of discovering Welsh ancestors.
Discover how DNA testing can enhance your family history research. Learn what ethnicity estimates, DNA matches and centimorgans really mean, and how combining genetic evidence with traditional genealogy can help uncover your Welsh ancestry.
From a farm in Newoprt to the industrial cities of Ohio, the story of Mary Elizabeth Williams traces one Welsh family’s remarkable journey through emigration, resilience, and opportunity in nineteenth-century America.
Mary Dorothea Phillips, heiress to the Slebech Estate, married Charles Frederick, Baron de Rutzen, a Baltic nobleman whose extraordinary life took him from imperial Russia and Regency Rome to Victorian Pembrokeshire.
From rural Welsh farms to new lives in America, this fascinating family history project uncovered generations of farming heritage, migration, tragedy, and resilience – bringing the Davies and Jones family story vividly back to life.
I only ever intended to buy a couple of vintage postcards of Newport to add some visuals to a family history story. Fast forward a year, and I now have over 50 vintage postcards – some posted, others never sent.
A collection of postcards sent to Cardiff in the early 1960s offers a glimpse into a lost world of seaside holidays, long journeys, and friendships maintained one message at a time.
We first began researching All Saints Church as part of our work for the Skinner family. What started as a focused piece of genealogical research soon grew into something far more absorbing. Before long, we found ourselves drawn into the story of this largely forgotten church.
For many family historians, research begins at the kitchen table scrolling through records- yet some of the most valuable discoveries are not found online at all, but in churchyards, cemeteries, and quiet burial grounds.