Have you reached a brick wall? Does your ancestor have a common surname? Are you looking for the origins of your Welsh immigrant ancestor? Want to learn the history of your home? Or maybe you’ve just started and are looking for help pushing your family tree into the 19th Century and beyond. I can help! With over 10 years of research experience, I can find your ancestors and document their lives with real historical records.
Meet with me on Zoom to discuss your goals and create a customized research plan.
With your goals set, I’ll go off and find your ancestors! The initial research session takes a minimum of 5 hours.
You get a written family history report describing your ancestors’ lives with original and transcribed records that your ancestors appear in.
Meet with me on Zoom for 15 minutes to go over any questions, discuss the research, and plan next steps. There’s always more to find!
“I emailed Dai to find out if I had Welsh ancestry. Dai is a lovely open, warm sensitive skilled researcher. We had a great chat for half an hour and discussed the fee for the report. Dai compiled a fantastic report, now my story about 5 generations of my Welsh ancestors. It’s been really exciting! Dai put together many details including many footnotes with hyperlinks as well as photos of the churches where family married. Very special information. Best money I’ve ever spent – so worthwhile. No more wonder if I have welsh heritage! I’m very grateful for the work you have done Dai! I’ll be in touch!”
–Siegi
“I hadn’t expected to be so moved. Thanks Dai, was a very important talk for me.”
–Writing the Stories of Our Marginalised Ancestors, May 11, 2026
“It was most inspiring to see how researching in all directions can help sort out a complicated family.”
–Forget the Family Tree. Tend Your Family Ivy!, Sept. 25, 2025
“Dai has a rare talent of making copyright understandable and even interesting.”
–Copyright for Family Historians, Nov. 15, 2024
My name is Dai Davies of GenealCymru, a professional genealogist specialising in Welsh family history. Despite what you may have heard, finding your Welsh ancestors is possible. It’s something I’ve proven time and again with my client research and my own family tree, which stretches back to 18th C. Carmarthenshire and 17th C. Cardiganshire.
I have a Masters and BA (hons.) in Anthropology (the study of culture), which I use to explore ancestral stories with a special emphasis on identity, local history, and culture. This is key to my approach to researching a place where you regularly find tens of people with the exact same name in the smallest of villages.
The challenges of Welsh research have inspired me to develop new approaches and tools which can be used by researchers no matter where their ancestors come from. My desire to share ancestral stories has pushed me to explore new forms of storytelling and tackle challenging themes.
If you’re new to the Welsh language, it can be a bit overwhelming. But fear not! Check out my free booklet to help you interpret the Welsh-language sources that your ancestors appear in! Keep an eye out for new booklets coming in the future.
It was March, 1939. The world was tense with anticipation for the coming war. The two dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, were busy carrying out their imperialist machinations on the continent and, at home, the Swansea…
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1899 was a busy year for Thomas Evans of Lampeter. After years of training as an apprentice, Thomas finally left home for the nearby town of Lampeter to open his butcher’s shop. [1] Whether he…
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The light on the answering machine was always blinking. Blinking as I got home from school. Blinking when we got back with the groceries. Blinking. Blinking. Blinking… Why does nobody ever answer this blinkin’ phone!?…
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All of my work has been written by me, Dai Davies of GenealCymru, unless otherwise noted. I will never use Generative AI in any way in my work because it’s theft, it’s unreliable, and its infrastructure is destroying the environment and small communities. So rest assured that everything you read here was written with my own two hands and with the support of the records and scholars who came before me.
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