Dear Listers - is there some kind soul out there who has access to the 1851 Wales census? I am looking for my family who came to the United States in 1854. I do not know where they lived - except that some info I have found leads me to believe that the father worked in the coal mines and an IGI indicates that one daughter was born in Carmarthen, but I haven't verified that yet. I am willing to do the search myself on the Ancestry UK site, but I don't understand the pay-per-view. (And, I'm not sure that it is available at my library yet, because I don't see 1851 listed on the Ancestry site.) Do I get one lookup for 6.99 or do I get unlimited lookups at each signon? My problem is that all the names are extremely common so there will be a good bit of trolling. The family is: John Thomas - father (born between 1813 & 1819) Martha Thomas - Wife (born about 1820) Ann, Sarah, Mary - daughters (born between 1820 and 1853) This is the family unit who emigrated to and lived in the US. In some of my searching, I think that there 'might' have been 2 sons - but, I don't know if they died or just didn't go the the US. The names I've come across are David Thomas and Thomas Thomas. If someone is either willing to do the lookup for me, or offer me advise on the pay per view, I would be most appreciative. Sandy Roswell, GA --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.

Hello Sandy You are going to have a real problem trying to identify the right family with just that information. Do you know Martha's maiden name? That might help in finding her marriage to John Thomas and give an indication of the area they may have come from. Re Ancestry's Pay per view. The charge gives you access to 20 pages which can be accessed during a period of 7 days. You can log as many tomes as you like duting those 7 days and view and/or download one or more pages each time. Having accessed a page image you can re-access it as many times as you like during those 7 days. However I suggest you find out a bit more first. You say an IGI entry shows one daughter born in Carmarthen - are you absolutely sure it is the right person? You also mention thee possibility of two sons - can you give us the source of this information? If you tell us as much as you know and the source of the info then maybe we can point you in the right direction. Cheers Pat In message <20051011145747.212.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com>, Sandy Passman <sandypassman@yahoo.com> writes >Dear Listers - is there some kind soul out there who has access to the 1851 >Wales census? I am looking for my family who came to the United States in 1854. >I do not know where they lived - except that some info I have found leads me to >believe that the father worked in the coal mines and an IGI indicates that one >daughter was born in Carmarthen, but I haven't verified that yet. >I am willing to do the search myself on the Ancestry UK site, but I don't >understand the pay-per-view. (And, I'm not sure that it is available at my >library yet, because I don't see 1851 listed on the Ancestry site.) Do I get one >lookup for 6.99 or do I get unlimited lookups at each signon? My problem is that >all the names are extremely common so there will be a good bit of trolling. >The family is: >John Thomas - father (born between 1813 & 1819) >Martha Thomas - Wife (born about 1820) >Ann, Sarah, Mary - daughters (born between 1820 and 1853) > >This is the family unit who emigrated to and lived in the US. In some of my >searching, I think that there 'might' have been 2 sons - but, I don't know if >they died or just didn't go the the US. The names I've come across are David >Thomas and Thomas Thomas. >If someone is either willing to do the lookup for me, or offer me advise on the >pay per view, I would be most appreciative. >Sandy >Roswell, GA > > >--------------------------------- > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > > >==== CARMARTHENSHIRE Mailing List ==== >Carmarthenshire Place Names Database - Looking for a farm etc you cannot find - >Contact - PeterWihl@compuserve.com - Let him know the name of the Farm House etc >etc - He will search the Database > -- Pat Powell