Looks like another case for a DNA/Documentation study, Kay. Within 12 months you will be able to do most of this online from California. Most of the databases required will be available. Just a question of organising the Spreadsheets to do the family reconstructions required! If he was in America by the early 1630s - then you will probably be interested in a Spreadsheet I am compiling to capture all the relevant information about the parish registers of London, Middlesex and close neighbouring parishes in Counties like Surrey and Kent. All the early vessels for New England, Virginia or Maryland left from Stepney. And Ancestry is now putting all these parish registers online in a big, big way. It has been a key missing part of the jigsaw required to trace emigrants to America. I never thought I would see this in my lifetime - but it is happening for real, right now. But you will still need a Spreadsheet to check off coverage as to what has and what has not been covered and indexed by Ancestry. So if William Meyrick came from West Wales - he would have had to find his way to Stepney - and that would have been by sea also. He does not necessarily to have had any vital event registered in London, but transit through the City was probably an integral step in how he got to America. And if he was born/baptised there - now you can find him, assuming his surname got noted down and spelt moderately correctly. And as we all know - looking for his baptism back in about 1610 in West Wales is a forlorn hope, to put it mildly. So that just leaves you with DNA as a viable alternative. So - it really boils down if you, personally, are prepared to put in the time, money and effort to answer the question. Because no-one is going to do it for you, in my experience. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kay Hoover Sent: 18 February 2012 23:05 To: [email protected] Subject: [Dyfed] Meurig ap Llewlyn Has an extended genealogy been done on Meurig ap Llewlyn? I have an immigrant, William Myrick/Merrick/etc, who is "supposed to be" a descendant of Meurig. William was in America by the early 1630's.. I have a copy of a newspaper article stating the Massachusetts Meyrick's descended from Meurig came through the branch that went to Pembrokeshire from Gwynedd. Article has no newspaper name or date. Lewis Dwnn doesn't seem to have tracked my William's branch of the family. Unfortunately the hundreds of Myrick postings on the internet quote each other verbatim and, according to Dwnn, those postings are not correct. Thanks Kay in California ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message