"Warm Fuzzies - 2002-03"

3 Sep 2002 You have a great web site! Thoroughly enjoyed your photos. I got there by looking for info and pictures on Alpine Loop and Cascade Springs. Holy Cow! Your photos of the Alpine loop are magnificent! I will be recommending your site to a friend in Michigan who is visiting here in Oct. I went through the Alpine Loop the 6th of July. I was so taken with the absolute beauty. Couldn't get my camera out, however. The driver could not stop. So, thank you! Lynn Van Landschoot North Las Vegas, Nevada 27 Nov 2002 Hi my name is Jason Morgan and i was born in Newport Gwent South Wales and have moved to the US for work.I loved your web site some lovely pictures of back home thank you very much Mr.J.Morgan "CYMRU AM BYTH" Mon, 30 Dec 2002 Venita I have been looking at your web page, what a lovely family and a beautiful country. It looks very green, very much like England although I expect we have more rain!! I hope you have a great retirement, like you Family History is my hobby. Thank you for the "Christmas card". Lets hope for a Peaceful Year ahead. Jill 2 Jan 2003 Hi Venita, Enjoyed your web page on Cardigan Bay, hoping to get there one day. Cheers Jeff Hester. 17 Jan 2003 Hi Venitar, Great pictures and a great story about the meeting house and your ancestor's house. Maybe you can some day take a picture of the churches in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. My great grandfather Rees Thomas married Ann Solomon in the parish church in 1852. I have been unable to find anything about his parents John Thomas and Martha Powell. Richard 1 Apr 2003 Thank you so much John and Venita. I have enjoyed reliving my trips to Wales through the pictures you have made available to us. My daughter accompanied my last year and seeing some of the places we visted together has brought back happy memories. Thank you both again Millie Wollf 1 Apr 2003 Thank you so much! My late father was born in Glam. We travelled through Cardiff, having only half a day there, so this will fill in the gaps beautifully. What a wonderful job you've done! I will enjoy looking at your other Wales photos. Thank you again. Liz Canberra, Australia. 1 Apr 2003 Hello Venita - thank you, again, so much for these. I've just enjoyed seeing all here to offer. I especially enjoyed the pictures of Penydarren where my grandparents lived, side by side, at nos. 34 and 37 North Street, Penydarren, before their marriage (the sweetheart next door!). I don't suppose you have any pictures of North Street? I'm trying to find out if the house numbering in North Street is still the same as it was in 1893. Thank you again. Liz Canberra, Australia. 1 Apr 2003 Venita, it's a Very Good Day, photo-wise! John's and now yours! Thank you so much for the Cardiff scenes - many of these I remember well, esp the path to the RO, and the shops opposite the Castle wall (I remember the beasties atop the wall, too). Thanks again - Lois Regina, Canada 2 Apr 2003 Venita Many thanks of the lovely photographs of Cardiff - it made me quite homesick! Especially poignant are the main civic buildings. My Grandfather, Fred Pepperell, was the Clerk of Works during their construction and as children (and sometimes as adults!) we always said Grancher built the Civic Centre (single-handed,of course!) Deirdre Briscombe Dungog, Australia 2 Apr 2003 Venita, I really enjoyed your pictures. Hope to someday go to Wales and see all those wonderful site. Sandy Brown 3 Apr 2003 G'day Venita, i visited the website too and the photos are lovely, not that they mean anything to me from memory, as I have only been there once and that was about 35 years ago, and was driving through to get to Gilfach Goch, and ended up on the Cowbridge road. thanks for putting them up there Eunice in Queensland 17 May 2003 hi great photos just like being there home i mean. and a good reminder that its time to visit wales. and get some fresh welsh air. thanks percy. 21 May 2003 Hi Venita. Just a little "Thank you" for some delightful memories found in your "Views of Wales" website - now domiciled in Australia, I once lived in Pontardawe and went to school at Ystalyfera County in the late 1930's to mid 40's, and now and again walked to school along the very trail that you have photographed so beautifully. We would pass the horse drawn canal boats, sometimes loaded with coal and I remember that otters used to dive into the canal before us, as we walked along. Happy days! Your charming website has only just now been recommended to me by a very dear friend from Swansea, and is now book-marked for many more visits in the future. Thanks again. John Phillips 31 May 2003 I know you're gone for a while, but I just had to comment on the great photos of the old town of Thistle on you web site so I wouldn't forget. As I may have mentioned before, I am a retired truck driver who used to haul timber into Geneva Steel and on the day that slide closed the road, I had, just a couple of hours before, brought a load of railroad ties from a treatment plant in Price to Geneva. Before I had unloaded the ties, I was listening to my C.B. radio and heard two truckers talking about a large hump in the road that had nearly wrecked them. It was the road at Thistle. Prior to the slide, I was a regular driver thru the canyon, and had seen the old town of Thistle many times traveling between Carbon County and Geneva/Salt Lake. Needless to say, after the slide it was a much farther trip via Duchesne and Indian Canyon to make the haul. Well, I don't get to see much of my old haunts any more, as I am needed at home by my mother, but your beautiful pictures brought back memories, just like I was there in person again. Thank you. Your cousin in Roosevelt. Spike 25 Jul 2003 Venita: Just been to your site. Your pictures are beautiful. Your site is well laid out and easy to use. May I ask how you went about setting it up. I would like to do something with my lines... Congratulations! Marie in Maine 4 Aug 2003 Hi Venitar, love your winter scene photos and the shots in Salt Lake City, I got to your page via John Ball's site. I was attracted to his page because of the Welsh link, I was born in Wales but have been living in Australia since !969. Great work by the two of you, thank you very much for sharing the results. Regards, Peter 6 Aug 2003 Thank you for the photos you have taken. If it weren't for the efforts of yourself and others like you over time, I would not have been afforded the opportunity to see where my ancestors lived. My grandmother was Elisabeth Crashaw, who has not been with us for some time, but I was her first grandchild and particularly close to her. She entertained me with stories of our heritage from a young age and it means a great deal to me to be able to see pictures of what she told me about. She lived in the [Cyfarthfa] castle until she was eight years old and I enjoyed seeing what she saw as a child. Thank you, Yvonne Malmberg 21 Aug 2003 Hi Venitar, I love your website. I came to it through the Reunion Digest. I am also a .Mac member, as you can tell by my e-mail address. I have just started using the homepage for my own family and would like to also use it for family history and genealogy. I know you probably don't have lots of time, but I would appreciate any tips you could give me on how to make my pages more professional looking, how to set up links and how to incorporate Reunion and .Mac. I am also a retired school teacher, cat lover and a very new grandmother. I live in Denver, Colorado. Mary 12 Sep 2003 I loved your site. I have spent the past week enjoying every bit of it!!!!!!!!!!!!! A job well done!!!!!...Thank you again so much for your many years of labor on putting this great site together. Margaret Page 12 Sep 2003 Hi Venita; I asked the list earlier about photos of Denmark and Skallerup, Hjorring in particular and got no response (probably because of the o without the line :+)) and then I noticed your website with all those pictures. I'm going to have a great time looking at all the pictures. A couple of years ago I took my mother to Denmark on a tour. She was almost 80 and she wanted to see where her family had come from but at the time I wasn't into genealogy yet and we only knew that what papers we had said "Denmark" and that was it. We did enjoy our tour and walk through the little villages and the history but I know that she will enjoy these pictures as well. Charlotte 22 Sep 2003 Dear Venita, I have enjoyed your website very much. Today I was surprised to find the history of my grandmother Alice Lambert. I had never seen this...Thanks for all your research and sharing. Your cousin , Don Wilkinson 19 Oct 2003 Thank you Venita to the introduction to the wonderful set of photographs of Wales and thanks for thinking of us all - well, me in particular :-) Gordon 23 Oct 2003 I am so impressed with your web-site. Thanks for sharing it with us. I wish I could do the same thing. Wouldn't it be great if we would put our research online. Thanks again, I loved it. Irene 6 Nov 2003 Hi Venita, Really enjoyed your web site which I found on Reunion Digest. I am originally from Wales but now live in Hong Kong with side trips to Montreal. Great photos. Thanks Pat- Hong Kong 6 Nov 2003 Hello, I have just visited your web-site and looked at all the lovely pictures you have of Wales. They are beautiful. I live in Canada and have done for the past 10 years, but am very proud to be welsh, I do miss wales very much and do visit there every year. It is so nice to see information and photographs of wales on web-sites. You have done a lovely job. Thank-you. Annette 7 Nov 2003 Hi there, Your pictures and information about Cove Fort are great, we have been by the fort many times in a big hurry but in the morning we are going on a road trip and going to stop and see the whole thing. Thanks for the preview Phil 13 Nov 2003 Dear Venita, I was in Utah for the first time in my life this summer and your pictures are reminding me of why I love it so much there. Thank you so much for the beauty and the great spirit of your photos. They speak to my soul. Ellie 26 Nov 2003 Venita, I enjoy your photos very much!! Travel to Wales is not a possibility for a few more years (when the children are older), but you give me a "taste" from your view. Thank you so much! One of my family's homes is reported to still be standing. It is the Benglog farm in the Llandeniol parish in Cardiganshire. I love seeing these examples, and will be sure to include a trip to the museum when (not if) I finally make the trip to Wales. (ALL of my father's ancestors are from the Mynydd Bach area, about a 20 mile radius, or so it would seem, around Cilcennin, Lanon, Pen-uwch, Langeitho, etc.) Thank you for sharing, Kathi Jenkins Elliott 1 Dec 2003 Do you have any Edmonds in your family? We (2 of us are at a very thick and high brick wall) ? Your site is great, I have looked at some of your pictures b/4. Tonight I read some of the stories. I will check in every once in awhile. Keep up your work, it is very well done. Kate 5 Dec 2003 Dear Venita, I write to say how much I enjoy your photographs and your website. I have also walked the canal in the Tawe valley (with our mutual friend, J.B.), and you have caught it perfectly. John says your pictures of water are excellent, and so they are! My paternal gt grandfather was a boatman on the canal, hence my interest. I also enjoyed your pictures of Cefn Coed and Cyfarthfa castle. My mother went to school there, in about 1912-1920, and lived in Cefn Coed during that period, so they are very special for me. You seem to have been to lots of places that have connections to my history, for you also spent time up at Penwyllt, where my paternal grandmother ran that lonely pub, and where my grandfather was stationmaster, during Adelina Patti's time... Best wishes, Annie.