Thanks to Brian Swann's e-mail (extract below), I ordered my copy of "The Surnames of Wales" on-line at 4.30 pm on Sunday and it's just been delivered in Oxfordshire at 12.50 on Tuesday - how's that for service! Thank you Gomer Press. I shall spend Christmas reading it avidly. A very happy Christmas to all our readers and good hunting (for our forebears) in the new year. Gerry Lewis > >I don't think I have seen it posted anywhere else yet, but John and Sheila >Rowlands revised 2nd Edition book on The Surnames of Wales has just been >published. It is a real gem, and for example has a wonderful map showing >how the use of patronymics dropped out across Wales from 1600 to 1850 in >fifty year contour lines, based on a huge survey of wills from the NLW. >Of >course, chock full of useful ideas based on a lifetime of research in this >field. > >http://www.gomer.co.uk/index.php/ is the link > > >John Rowlands will be speaking at WDYTYA 2014 on Thursday 20th February at >4.15-5.00 pm on: >