On 12 Mar 2011, at 20:34, Irene Smith wrote:
How do I get into NLW and the two sites you mention Coed Coch No 1660
and NLW Wynnstay Mss 143-4 . These are all new to me. Our research has mainly been done
by my brother in residence in North Wales and through trailing through Church records and
Censors.
Ah, OK. You have done pretty well to get back into the 16th c. just on PRs/BTs!
The NLW site is a treasure trove for deed collections -- plus of course most of the wills
for Welsh dioceses are available there now too.
Here is a link to their ISYS search screen:
http://isys.llgc.org.uk/
It is a bit antiquated as software now, so when you select one of the resulting hits the
site quite often replies with a download dialogue box rather than feeding the page of text
across via your browser in the way that it is supposed to do. If that happens, best
thing is just to back-key to the search screen, hit the Search button again, then
re-select the desired hit.
For the 1693/4 Llowarch Ffoulkes deed, you could just enter this as a search term:
Llowarch AND Coed Coch 2
That produces a single Deed Schedule hit. Select that; and once the page of text has
loaded, select First [In-Page] Hit. To move on to the next one, click on the second
(right-pointing) red arrow, and you should arrive right on the deed description. But for
the really useful family information you will need the extra details to be found only in
the original document.
You or your brother would also need to go to Aberystwyth to look at Wynnstay 143-4 (now
only allowed using their microfilm copy). There is, however, an online page index to it,
accessible via the ISYS screen.
If by any chance you have not used the Welsh wills before, as background reading you
could look at the discussion about them on the RootsChat forum here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,406851.0.html
Rol