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Hi, are you sure about this? I got something a bit similar a little while ago. If you go to the Mackiev main site there is no mention of 2024 at all.

Those links are from the Mackiev main site, just their support section. (go to main site, then click family tree maker and then support in green bar and it is all in there so definitely from their main site).

As to whether this is true, yes, all installed on my PC.

For my own amusement I followed a number of trees posted on the internet back in time.   They appeared to be linked to some of my Welsh family members.   They inevitably went back to Welsh nobility, princes and even royalty as far back as the second century AD.   A similar phenomenon occurred with an American in law's tree.  The family emigrated to the USA from the London and south east England region but purported to have their origins as Welsh and indeed Scottish royalty in early Medieval times.
One can only conclude that the population must have been extremely small and virile or there has been some very imaginative research.
Comments please

I think the problem with welsh genealogy is when you get back to pre-parish records, at least in my experience, is the surnames. People just take a David ap David as being the same as the other David ap David in the same town not understanding that they both could be and probably are the sons of two entirely different David's and entirely separate families.

From there they go down the rabbit hole taking their research on an entirely different tangent.

That said, the Welsh, like the Irish kept very detailed genealogical records pre-parish registers and naming conventions (son/daughter of) helped immensely not to mention the Bards. Other cultures are the same like Asian cultures with their records such as jokbo's. There certainly are many manuscripts, wills, pedigrees, odes, Elegies, etc., that if you have the correct names (and are from prominent families similar to English nobility) do take you back to a reasonable pre Norman date and in general can be backed up by land records, wills and other documentation.

That said, just like English genealogy, you have to have the link to the nobility to have such breakthroughs and most people just try to tack on a person to link into such persons despite there being no evidence.

I gave up mentioning to people on Ancestry that they have a wrong link as, like others in here have mentioned, it either falls on deaf ears or they get offended.

There are many Redman's shown as living in Broughton Gifford in many records dating before 1650.

Of note is the will of Margaret Rudman of Broughton Gifford dated 25 Nov 1629 whereby she leaves legacies in particular to her three sons William Rudman, Nicholas Rudman and Thomas Rudman. She also mentions her grandchildren Nicholas, John, Joseph and Henry Rudman.

Earlier wills from the same parish for the surname Rudman/Redman also show relatives with the names Thomas and Nicholas.

According the BT's of that parish a Nicholas Redmon son of Thomas was buried in 1623, Joseph Redmon (probably the one mentioned in the above will) was the son of John Redmon bapt. 1625, Henry son of John Redman bapt. 1627 and bur. 1628 with John having another son Henry in 1628.

May be worthwhile looking into this parish and their records to see if anything can be linked.

It DOESN'T include electoral registers

Any in particular? Just looked when I signed in at home to Library edition now and they are all there.

Just for future reference, if you click the subscribe button on the top of the website you will only be offered 1 or 6 month subscriptions.

To purchase the full 12 month subs for all membership plans (if you dont use the aforementioned discount link) you need to go to your 'Account Settings' and can then scroll down and all 1, 6 and 12 month subscriptions can be purchased from there.