In a message dated 26/04/2007 15:04:02 GMT Standard Time, jaenglish@comcast.net writes: My ancestors, Thomas Powell and family, were in Newport in 1839. I live across the pond so obviously can't attend this event. How can I find out if they were involved? Janet English Pittsburgh, PA USA Janet A lot of names are known from the 1839 event, but there were thousands there and so the details mainly relate to those who were killed, or else tried afterwards. Clearly there are many people involved who have not yet been identified publicly and we would like to know who they were. Through the University of Wales, Newport, we are trying to mobilise support for work to be done tracking these people and identifying descendants. We have no resources to do this work, but are hoping that this can begin by a volunteer group. There are already things happening with Chartist ancestors, and there is a very good website _http://www.chartists.net/_ (http://www.chartists.net/) where you can find details of the Newport rising. If we can get movement with this, then we may be able to link the findings to this site to make the information freely available. I will post some feedback after the event next week. regards Pete Brown Newport