Hi Dan
give me some details about your grand father as i have extensive history about the edwards line going back to the 1700s and i can then tell you if we are related.
the welsh version of david is dafydd (sounds like dafith)
i know some of the family went over to patagonia as did a lot of welsh miners. but lets start with the names of your grand parents and do you know his date of birth. do not know if you get free access to the freebmd site which is quite helpful, but i am sure someone on here will inform you.
steph
Well, my grandfather was Lyle Edwards and lived a great deal of the time in Niagara Falls, NY and then here in Rome, I don't remember his birthday as he passed away when I was fairly young but may be able to get more info from my brother who actually has a family tree that was done by my grandfather. My grandfather was the son of Frank Edwards and he had two brothers Roland (Maryville, MO) and Warren (Oswego, NY), the locations shown were at the time of his father's death according to the newspaper article I found today. I will keep you posted.
One further thing, I know at some point there were 7 brothers that owned a significant part of what is now Manhattan, NY, and that some portion (I believe also in the Edwards line) of my lineage owned a large portion of what is now Pittsburgh. Manhattan was turned over during a war to the US Government with the promise of it being returned at the cessation of activities, but as we all know now, that didn't happen. I was also told that there was a man (another Edwards) that my parents met up in eastern Canada who, after hearing my father start talking about this, finished the story.