| Success Stories |
| Below are some emails which we have received from visitors who have used this website and have had success in not only finding Jones ancestors, but also relatives that they didn't know they had. It just goes to show that it's always worth posting to the Jones UK history website. We are sure as time goes by, more and more visitors will have success in finding those elusive Jones forebears from the UK. |
| Just to say a huge thank you. Due to putting
a help me on your website we have been traced by a long lost relative. Not
on the Jones side but on our Corbyn side. ( a Niece of my Husbands Grandmother
Lily Gertrude Corbyn m John Albert Thomas Jones) This has bought immense
pleasure to my mother-In-law who new very little about her mothers family. We have now managed to trace John Jones who's roots went back to Banbury Oxford. Best wishes, Jean and Colin Borne. |
| Thank you Trevor and Debbie !!!! Today I received a package from my relative Eirlys who lives in Rhyl containing lots of data for the Welsh side of "my" Jones family, also some photographs - including one of the lady who sent the majority of the postcards to my great-Aunt here in Australia that you have uploaded to your pages. Eirlys has been busy at the Records Office in Hawarden and has obtained Marriage Certificates, Baptism details and one or two Birth Records - all of which she has sent to me. She also sent quite a detailed "tree" of the sub-branch that she is descended from and after a very quick glance (MUCH pouring over all this during the next few days !!) I have been able to match up Surnames with most of the First Names that are on the postcards. One of the Marriage Certificates dates back to 1819 and is of my great-great-great Grandparents who I had no details of so now I have been able to go back one more generation. If it wasn't for you and your Jones Family website and the contacts I was able to find in Wales I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to find out any information about the Welsh connection. How I wish there was a "Trevor and Debbie JASPER" operating a Jasper Family website in Devon and/or Cornwall --if there was perhaps I might be able to "find" my bleeding Jasper relatives !!! Once again, thank you SO much. David Jasper |
| I want to share with you the type of thing that happens
when geneology strikes the heart of a Jones! I am not a geneologist, in
fact I have never done research like this before but I am a Jones..... For My Father I started my research 2 years ago with encouragement from my father now 77 years of age. His hope was that if I would research the Jones family tree that I might find a branch of the family that he had lost connection with around the time of WWII. My starting information: Grandfather David Jones married Gwen ? both from somewhere in Wales. Two of their five children were born in Wales. The eldest of these children, Ellis returned to live in Bristol, England. He had 3 or 6 or 8 children. We had first names for 2 girls and 1 boy. My best hope was to try to find Raymond Jones. With help from a geneology connection in Bristol who volunteered to assist we began putting pieces together. I posted my information on the internet and got my first big break earlier this year in the form of a telephone call from Edmonton, Alberta. Someone researching his grandmother who was connected to an Eli Jones who had come from Nanaimo, BC. A comparison of notes found too much circumstantial evidence not to seek further. My fellow researcher introduced me to yet another researcher of this same family.......what were the odds of that??? Together the three of us joined forces each for our own reasons to find this family. For Mr. Edmonton it was his grandmother's one true love in a world of unfortunate circumstances. For Mr. Vancouver it was his wife's grandfather whom she had never known and the father of her father whom he had never known. For me this was father's wish, to find his Uncle's family that he had lost touch with so many years before. If I could just do this one thing for my father....... We found one man two families, one of unfortunate circumstance and one of happier times. Two children and a first love torn from their father through unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances never to be heard of again. One family lost in years gone by. Until three researchers, connected by family aided by the unselfish and kind acts of others joined forces. I've come to know that there is nothing stronger than the bond of family. The bond of family is beyond time and space. The bond of family is Love. I set out to find Raymond Jones and along the way I found David, Peter, Juanita, Stephen, Thomas and many others I never knew of. Yesterday, I spoke for the first time to Raymond Jones of England. A man I have never known but I love him with the heart of family. There was no awkwardness in our connection.....there is however a hole in my heart that is beginning to mend. In 2003 we hope to make our connection a physical one. 2003 is the 30th annual Jones Family and Friends weekend that my Dad has hosted. In 2003 the missing branch of our family will be no longer be missing. Dad, I love you! Beverley Jones |
| Hi Debbie, Just thought I'd drop you a line to tell you
about our success story! Also to thank you for setting up this database,
it's magic. A while ago I posted some names on the database, most notably George Jones of Small Heath B'ham, well guess what? I got an email from a chap who'd seen the entry & it turns out our Grandmas were sisters. My sister & I knew very little about our Jones' just info we'd found in libraries etc. Ian (that's his name) has heaps of family "lore" & pictures which is what we dreamed of. The best is that he lives in Solihull, just around the corner from my niece, so my sister, who lives in Coventry got to meet him! They were able to compare notes & the research that we had done complimented the family knowledge that he has & cleared up some mysteries on both sides. So thank you again & keep up the good work. Kind regards Barbara Rosethorne Perth Western Australia |
| I don't know how to thank-you. Through family problems, I lost touch with my brother almost 20 yrs ago, as soon as Isaw the address in the e-mail, I recognised it. Thank-you just does not express my gratitude, I am going to write to him tonight. Many thanks Kris. |
| I am about 90% sure you have done the almost impossible. Finding my Jones family in Wales. You have moved my project forward considerably. Warmest regards, David Littler. |
| BLESS YOU, BLESS YOU, BLESS YOU!!! I think you did it.
Everything fits and I'm thrilled. This is so great. I can't thank you enough.
Now I have a starting point for my Scottish family members, in addition
to you locating my grandfather. I had almost given up. How sweet of you
to help. This information, long sought after, means so very much to me.
Thank you again, Sharon Woodfield. |
| Hi Debbie I really can't thank you enough, I have been
visiting your site for less than a month and have made fantastic progress
in my research. I have found relatives in Canada (Jan and Bev Jones) who
I never new existed, and to whom I am very grateful. Best regards..... Shannon (Jones) |
| Debbie - THANK YOU!! You printed my silly joke about John (Revolving) Jones - and it was noticed by Shannon who was looking for her great-great uncle. She noted I was in Winnipeg and she knew Edward Dudley Jones came to Canada, so she asked if I happened to have come across the name! Edward Dudley Jones was my husband's grandfather - although we know little about him (due to his having left the family in the 1910's) as he was rarely spoken of! I thought you might ban jokes but I am so glad this crept in because just look at the result! I guess we should use all and any means to find our information! Actually our separate letters appear very closely in your "Can you help" pages - now that we know we're both on the same path. Cheers to all Jones researchers - Jan, in Winnipeg, Canada |
| Hi Debbie: Many thanks for your e-mail. I expect David told you what I wrote. Just in case he didn't here is a copy: You have all given us both enormous pleasure. Many thanks indeed. With very best wishes, Diana-in-Canada Greetings from the Land o' the Maple Leaf I have been having bad computer problems. Finally I am back on line! Waiting for me in my mailbox was an e-mail sent by Debbie which told me to take a look at their website as it featured some old postcards. I had written to the Glamorgan list about going to the Toronto Postcard Show a week last Sunday. A cure for the February blahs! Imagine my surprise when I saw that some of your postcards are of Meliden. I emigrated to Canada in 1962. Until then I had lived on the main road between Prestatyn and Rhyl and the view from our front window, across fields and farms in the early days, was Meliden mountain! I met my husband here. It turned out that his parents lived in Prestatyn, as mine did. Later his folks were to move to Meliden. I can show you the spot on the first postcard - just across the road from the school. The bungalow was built much later and the school has since closed. My mother-in-law was to move several times after the death of her husband. We went 'home' to several different houses in Meliden! My father-in-law is buried in St,Melyd's churchyard. My own parents stayed in my childhood home until their deaths. I wonder if you have been over there and seen it for yourself? Do you know that Meliden was a lead mining community at one time? I have a very brief history of the mining there and would be happy to e-mail it to you, if it would help with your research. I remember the two disused engine houses that stood there when I was young. I seem to remember my mother saying they used to play there as children. They would throw stones down the shafts then wait to hear them splash far down below! My sister and I were over there in 1998 and walked up Meliden mountain. Although the flat lands between Meliden, Prestatyn and Rhyl have been built upon a great deal, the mountain remains the same. Same sounds, same breeze, same warm sun. Gorse and sheep. Rocky outcrops. Lovely! I have quite an extensive collection of North Wales postcards myself and recognise many of the names of the postcards mentioned on the website. My North Wales ones aren't as precious as yours because they are not written by family members. I do have a collection of those, too, but they are of other areas and written by my grandmother to her sister in 1904. That's another story!! All for now. Thanking you for the surprise and the pleasure your postcards gave us both. Diana-in-Canada |