Your Welsh Ancestors

22/05/2026

Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors will be appearing again on the upcoming new Who Do You Think You Are? series, this time helping Strictly dancer Amy Dowden to find out more about a tragedy that befell a member of her family in Ceredigion. Tune in on 2 June 2026 to find out more:

Amy Dowden investigates a rumour of murder in her family history.

09/05/2026

Pharos' Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors online course starts on 1 June 2026. Taught by Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors, it's a 5 week course you can attend wherever you are in the world.
For more details and to book your place, here's a link to the Pharos website:

Researching Your Welsh Ancestors considers how Welsh and English research differ and how to find and get the most from Welsh sources and repositories.

13/04/2026

Based in the US? Tune into the PBS show 'Finding Your Roots' on 14 April 2026 to learn about the family history of Kate Burton (daughter of the renowned Welsh actor Richard Burton). Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors was proud to help with Kate's quest to find out more about her Welsh roots.

Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in Finding Your Roots on PBS!

12/01/2026

Tracing Living Relatives – a 5 week, online course – will be starting on 26 January 2026. Hosted by Pharos Tutors, the tutor is Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors.
You can book your place on this course via the Pharos Tutors website:

This course provides guidance on how to trace living relatives, whether expanding your family tree or 'heir hunting' a deceased's estate.

16/12/2025

Thinking of a Christmas gift for the genealogist in your family?
Pharos Tutors' Tracing Living Relatives course, which starts on 26 January 2026, may be the answer.

Taught by Eilir from Your Welsh Ancestors, it's a 5 week online course that can be accessed wherever you are in the world.
For details and how to book your place, go to the Pharos Tutors website to find out more:

This course provides guidance on how to trace living relatives, whether expanding your family tree or 'heir hunting' a deceased's estate.

13/05/2025

Researching Your Welsh Ancestors – Pharos Tutors' five week online course taught by Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors – will be starting this year on 2 June 2025.

Learn how to find out more about your Welsh kin, wherever you are in the world. Course materials, brilliant links to Welsh resources, a chance to put what you've learnt to practice and to chat with and discuss various topics with fellow students and Eilir, the tutor.

Book your place on the course by following this Pharos Tutors link:

Researching Your Welsh Ancestors considers how Welsh and English research differ and how to find and get the most from Welsh sources and repositories.

20/01/2025

The Pharos 'Researching Living Relatives' course starts just a week today – on 27 January 2025 – and is taught by Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors.

Suitable for both amateurs and professionals, this online course runs for 5 weeks and is made up of learning materials, weekly class sessions, and exercises where you can consolidate the knowledge you have learnt. And of course you'll have the chance to discuss any relevant issues with Eilir and to learn from her expertise.

You can book your place here on the Pharos website:

This course provides guidance on how to trace living relatives, whether expanding your family tree or 'heir hunting' a deceased's estate.

01/08/2024

Fancy an in-depth course on family history to keep you occupied over the coming autumn and winter?

The Society of Genealogists' 12 week online Family History Skills courses cater for different levels of expertise – from the beginner through to the experienced.

What's more, Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors teaches the Stage 3 Tracing Living Persons module that will provide you with the information needed to help track down long-lost family members.
The Stage 3 course starts on start on 28 September 2024.

Follow this link to find find out more about the different courses:

02/06/2024

The online, five week 'Researching Your Welsh Ancestors' course starts tomorrow, Monday, 3 June 2024.
Run once a year on the Pharos Tutors platform (genealogical courses specialists), this course has been taught by Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors for over 10 years now and has helped people from all over the world to discover much more about their ancestors.
You can sign up for the course on the Pharos Tutors website, by clicking on the link below:

This course considers how Welsh research differs from English research from a social, linguistic, cultural and religious perspective and where to locate and...

29/05/2024

Less than a week to go before the start of this year's 'Researching Your Welsh Ancestors' course.

Run by specialists in genealogical courses, Pharos Tutors, and taught by Eilir of Your Welsh Ancestors, this unique course (the only one of its kind held online) is only held once a year, so to make sure you don't miss out, please go to the Pharos Tutors' website to sign up today:

This course considers how Welsh research differs from English research from a social, linguistic, cultural and religious perspective and where to locate and...