This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stephens, Evans Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qg.2ADE/218.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Do you think I should remove the photos? I've had several family members write to me expressing thanks for posting them. I do believe they represent Pencader and Alltfechan Terrace well. The Welsh people who live in the old undated row of houses still seem to feel pretty strongly about their conclusion. Believe me, it was pretty exciting to look out upon the view of the valley as my ancestors did. By the way, are you a Stephens? Just wondering. Are you a resident of St. John or Malad, Idaho? Does your family history take you there? If so, we are ALL needing help from you. I don't need a book that just tells me that my ancestors did not live in a house near where we thought it was. What else will it tell us about our ancestors? Is it written in English? We might be able to convince our local family history centers or public libraries to purchase it for us, especially the interested folks currently living in the Malad Valley where so many of their ancestors from Pencader settled. We need a serious break-through. We don't understand the patronymic naming system. We don't understand the 1800s or Welsh language from any other period. People in Pencader told my wife and I that the records for the area are now located in Aberystwyth (spelling?), north of Carmarthenshire. Can you tell us how to gain access to those records? As our stout Welsh ancestors who crossed the Plains, many of us are do-it-yourself-ers. I suggest you keypunch us a copy of your book's Table of Contents so we can see what's in it. For those who might be interested in developing a purchase so that many can have access, please provide information . . . address if bookstore that stocks the book. I don't consider $25 + a few dollars for shipping expensive, and certainly public libraries that are funded by the Carnegie Foundation won't. For those Stephens family members who are reading this string of messages concerning the actual dwelling of the D.P. Stephens family, what Mr. Dube' is explaining is that perhaps the REAL dwelling may be a stone's throw from the old row of houses at Alltfechan Terrace. The original source for the information information given to me back in about 1960 was Evelyn Deschamps, a pretty sharp lady of St. John, and I'm not just real sure what her source was. My Aunt Edna Illum Rooker probably gave me Evelyn's family group sheet. When I showed a photocopy of that sheet to 84 year-old Evan Evans in Pencader, he about "fell out of the saddle" with excitement because he showed me the exact spot. Back to Steve, how about some real help from you for some lay family historians? Suggestions about where we should go next. Most of us only have family records that were passed down from our pioneer ancestors. Steve Illum