Thanks to a Genuki colleague for drawing this to my attention. http://www.cymru1900wales.org/ Partners in the project include the NLW, the University of Wales and RCAHMW The introductory text includes; "We need help in collecting all the names of places and features in Wales from the Ordnance Survey’s six-inch to a mile maps of c. 1900. Why? Because the names of places are a vital key to unlocking the social and linguistic history of the land. ............................... You might think that it was easy to come by a list of all the places in Wales, or Britain, but at this scale it is not – and, of course, the maps from a century ago preserve many historic names now lost. .................................. For one thing, it is intended that the Wales 1900 gazetteer will form the backbone of a national collection of the country’s historic place-names, comprising everything from the earliest medieval records to the field-names still known to modern farming families. In addition, there is here a huge potential to tap into local knowledge and memory. That is why, as well as simply recording the names as they appear on these historic maps, we want you to tell us more: do you know stories about the origin of the name, true or apocryphal? do you want to record other versions of the place-name (especially ones we might not otherwise easily find), such as a form used by your grandparents? or do you remember the same place going by another name altogether? ..................................." There appear to be 126 volunteers already involved. Gareth Hicks Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Gareth's Help Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html Cwmgors a'r Waun http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwmgors/Waun.html

Dear List Iwan Wmffre's 3 volume "The Place Names of Cardiganshire" (2004) covers Cardiganshire very thoroughly from earliest maps and archives to OS maps etc. Jen ________________________________ From: Gareth Hicks <tirbach@clara.co.uk> To: Dyfed <Dyfed@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, 25 October 2013, 13:35 Subject: [Dyfed] Place name project Thanks to a Genuki colleague for drawing this to my attention. http://www.cymru1900wales.org/ Partners in the project include the NLW, the University of Wales  and RCAHMW The introductory  text includes; "We need help in collecting all the names of places and features in Wales from the Ordnance Survey’s six-inch to a mile maps of c. 1900. Why? Because the names of places are a vital key to unlocking the social and linguistic history of the land. ............................... You might think that it was easy to come by a list of all the places in Wales, or Britain, but at this scale it is not – and, of course, the maps from a century ago preserve many historic names now lost. .................................. For one thing, it is intended that the Wales 1900 gazetteer will form the backbone of a national collection of the country’s historic place-names, comprising everything from the earliest medieval records to the field-names still known to modern farming families. In addition, there is here a huge potential to tap into local knowledge and memory. That is why, as well as simply recording the names as they appear on these historic maps, we want you to tell us more: do you know stories about the origin of the name, true or apocryphal? do you want to record other versions of the place-name (especially ones we might not otherwise easily find), such as a form used by your grandparents? or do you remember the same place going by another name altogether? ..................................." There appear to be 126 volunteers already involved. Gareth Hicks Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Gareth's Help Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html Cwmgors a'r Waun http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwmgors/Waun.html ================================ Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html [Dec2012] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message