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NB Jennifer Cairns/Jennifer Mathias asserts her moral right
to be identified as the author of the outline and design of this short course.

KEEP LOOKING, ITS GOT TO BE HERE SOMEWHERE

• Fill in Your Record Sheets !
  This week....
• 1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book [March 22]
• 1861 - London's first tramcars began operations [March 23]
• 1903 - The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent [March 23]
• 1807 - The first railway passenger service began in England [March 25th ]
• 1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared East Pakistan to be the independent republic of Bangladesh
  [March 26th] - Jen woz there. Jai Bangla !
• 1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi. [March 27th]

On Friday last the new website of Ceredigion Archives was launched...
(it has been online for a couple of weeks)
Congratulations to Helen Palmer and all her staff ...

Here are a few photos of the occasions... note the harpist !
[click for larger photo]

Ceredigion Archives Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth Opening Hours Monday 10.00 - 19.00 Tuesday and Wednesday, 10.00 - 16.30 Thursday and Friday, 10.00 - 16.00 01970 633697 or 633698 archivesATceredigion.gov.uk click on the photos for a bigger image
As the sun set...	The pages awoke..	Rhodri Llwyd Morgan Assistant Director in Education Department with responsibility for Community Services Ceredig Wyn Davies Cllr & Cabinet member for Education	Helen Palmer Chief County Archivist Ceredig Wyn Davies Nigel Callaghan Technoleg Taliesin
Ania Skarzynska	Ania and Nigel	Mair Humphreys	Luned Davies

Photograph by DAN GREGORY of UWL - source GEOGRAPH see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/655903

• A further study of GLANDENYS [where dwelt William Jones, his flashy wife Anne Jones and her fancy man Edward Hesketh Formby as recorded in Bethan Phillips excellent book:- Lovers Graves - ]
  
  
  Search LLGC for any records of Glandenys /William Jones

  Reminder of various census records, and birth /marriage/death records for these three people

  Google for Photographs or other records - I found this one [DETAILS BELOW]

  

  Ceredigion County Council - http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=10433
  from their postcard collection

  Have a look here for other possibilities of local house images
  http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6267
  

  Aerial Photograph of the modern mansion - From http://maps.google.co.uk/

  
  
  

  An old photograph of Glandenys - date unknown, possibly early 1900s

  
  
  source:- http://web.onetel.net.uk/~orangeberry/cymraeg.htm
  
  
  
  From Annals and Antiquities of the County Families of Wales - Thomas Nicholas, reprinted 1991
  Probably DL = Deputy Lieutenant - i.e. one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of the County.
  
  

  CAN YOU FIND SIMILAR INFO for your OWN RESEARCH INTERESTS
  ie MAPS and CARN or COFLEIN interesting sites as found via the RCAHMW sites below....
  
  I spotted this URL this week - Herefordshire Field Names

  http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/hfn/db.php
  
  
  ROYAL COMMISSION on the ANCIENT & HISTORICAL MONUMENTS of WALES

  To look through any of the rcahmw pages requires INFINITE PATIENCE - not designed in any kind of logical fashion.
  
  http://www.rcahmw.org.uk/
  http://www.rcahmw.gov.uk/aboutus.shtml
  

  CARN provides basic index information as an entry-point to the more detailed records held in each organisation. To obtain further information about any site either contact the originating body with the relevant reference numbers by using the e-mail link to the originating body or, for Royal Commission records, follow the link to the Coflein database or make an enquiry using the on-line enquiry form
  http://carn.rcahmw.org.uk/index.php/database_search      English
  http://carn.rcahmw.org.uk/index.php?lang=C                      Cymraeg
  

  COFLEIN - This allows you to search for archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and maritime sites using a map. To search the database directly (including searching by name, site type, community etc) please go to the COFLEIN database search. [The pages dont tell you how to get there of course... its like trying to get a second class Scout badge]
  http://jura.rcahms.gov.uk/COFLEIN/Map

  Here is the COFLEIN data base search
  http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/search/                   English

  http://www.coflein.gov.uk/cy/chwiliad+cyflym/    Cymraeg
  
  SOME FURTHER LINKS
  
  LOCAL ARCHIVES
  – CARDIGANSHIRE FH Soc
  www.cgnfhs.org.uk but not a lot of information, the magazine is the means of transmitting info, not the web.
  -DYFED FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
  For Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire please see DYFEDFHS
  

  http://www.dyfedfhs.org.uk/records.htm

  CEREDIGION ARCHIVES
  http://archifdy-ceredigion.org.uk/
  
  ROYAL COMMISSION on the ANCIENT & HISTORICAL MONUMENTS of WALES
  http://www.rcahmw.org.uk/
  http://www.rcahmw.gov.uk/aboutus.shtml

  NATIONAL ARCHIVES - Wills
  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/househistory/?source=ddmenu_research3

  NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES - WILLS
  http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=487a

CEREDIGION ARCHIVES
http://archifdy-ceredigion.org.uk/schedules-js.html

CEREDIGION COUNTY COUNCIL Family History Archives
http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4160

SOME EXERCISES

EXERCISE I
See if you can find William Jones in 1841 or any of the early censuses. His birth and other details above, and his school and university. Before building and moving to Glandenys he was at one stage living in Falcondale.

EXERCISE II - SEARCH FOR THE PAPERS
From the collection of D Thomas Esq OBE
HMI of Schools (Aberystwyth based) in the papers of the National Library
The folk-lore collection of D. Thomas includes the following short passage - written c. 1926:-

SARAH EVANS
AGED 70 Bettws Bledrws
Collected by Lilian Hughes

"This old dame who now lives in the village of Bettws Bledrws, and who is known most familiarly by the name "Sarah Hat", remembers hearing her grandfather tell the tale, how he and his neighbour were coming home on horseback one night, after having been sheep shearing in a distant farm. On their way home they had encountered an old witch, who tried to seize their horses, but to no avail as they each had a stick known as "Talen Cardinen" wound round their horse's neck. This was like a safeguard against all witchcraft. "

Lilian was the granddaughter of Sarah Evans
Jen is the great-granddaughter of Sarah Evans

To save you trouble…. Use this url to find Mr David Thomas's collected papers… I am sure you will (somewhere) find something interesting there. There is quite a lot of local history but it takes perseverance (and some disappointments) to find things... there are also local ghost stories in some areas.

http://isys.llgc.org.uk/isysquery/irl2b70/2/doc

nb Not all schools responded, but the feeble excuses are quite entertaining in their place.

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