If I had an enquiry regarding a specific person at a relatively specific date in a location, I would email or visit Gwynedd Archives in Caernarfon and Bangor Archives in the University College of Wales, Bangor, Library to ask if they had any information in their card indexes. These supplement to some extent what is available on line on the Gwynedd Archives website and the Melville Richards Archive (the only searchable *general* database of Bangor's archives that I know apart from its catalgoue class descriptions on archiveshub - rather like the introductions to volumes of an encyclopaedia... not incredibly useful in themselves). Directories might be incredibly useful, listing other addresses or family members. Equally, they may not be useful at all! Census and BMD registration remain the mainstay of research around this time but are not made easy in N Wales owing to the profusion of Jones &c. (and the number of properties called Ty Ucha, &c). Bangor Archives particularly has a lot of information relating to different trades and groups. Caernarfon has too and it is worth looking through their website and Archiveshub. We forget how mobile people were in 1890+. The number of Welsh people in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and London is large. As well as this, people were mobile around their own locales, staying with relatives or friends, not to mention sailors and early pioneers of travelling abroad for pleasure. Hope that is useful. Ian London SW9 _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d