Hi Barbara, Might I suggest you have one of your Evans males do a Y chromosomal analysis. It requires a simple cheek swab. With very common surnames, this can establish groups of clearly related individuals. Our Welsh surnames were being adopted about 300 years ago, so there is good time and probability of finding connections. So, if you did this, you might find another very close Evans match, which, for example, would permit you both to home in with your common knowledge on the geographic origin and historic evidence for your name.Finding related families within groups can catalyze the efforts of many to work out their common origins. We did this with our RODERICK/RHYDDERCH surname, and although relatively rare in Wales (a good thing for genealogical research), we had startling success in finding related branches as well as clearly unrelated families. There is now a significant effort do to the same for all the Smiths of New England, where the surname goes back probably 400 years into England, and already they have a number of large groups, within which they note a relationship after the surname was established. I would imagine a significantly large number of Evans families would have been analyzed by now. I am also interested in EVANS in a possible relationship because our most distant ancestor was RHYDDERCH EVAN of Llantrisant, Glam., and it is possible some of the family assumed the surname EVANS. I suspect his father was Evan Howell, and so I am interested also in Howell and Powell. If you wish, contact me off line, and I will suggest some places to do the analysis. Good luck, Thomas Roderick email: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:26:23 +1300 > From: "Barbara Mclachlan" <[email protected]> > Subject: [MON] EVANS FAMILY > To: <[email protected]> > > > I am hoping someone might be able to help me find my Evans family. > I am aware that it is such a common name that it can be nigh > impossible. > > The only information I have is below: > > EDWARD EVANS born approx 1855 WREXHAM, father, THOMAS - birthdate > and place of birth unknown >