I am posting this message to all South Wales and Welsh general mailing lists
in the hope that it will be of interest? I should be pleased if you would
forward it to anyone relevant you think I've missed. Also, my apologies to
those on the Carmarthenshire list who have had a double dose of it all!
This new CD is of a book called "Roots and Branches" that lists the main
families of Llanddeusant (Carm) the adjacent parish of Llywel (Brec) during
the 18th and 19th centuries. It gives the marriages, children, farm and
other locations and much more. It was originally privately published by Mr T
O Evans, now deceased, of Trecastell, and his family have agreed to allow
the book to be put onto CD. As the book contains many, many families with
marriages, deaths, baptisms of children, dozens of similar names, but no
index, a CD with a search facility will make it so much more accessible.
It is now available from
http://www.archivecdbooks.org . You can follow the
links to Latest Releases or just go direct to the Welsh pages where you will
find the title under Breconshire .. by the time you read this it may have
also been cross referenced under Carmarthenshire. I am pleased that the cost
has been kept low, only £8.50 for overseas customers, £9.99 inc VAT for UK
purchasers.
Mr Evans, who wrote the book is sadly now deceased, but his widow is still
alive, and should more than 100 CD's be sold, she will then start to receive
a small royalty. This isn't much, but she and her children are just proud
to see that Mr Evans lifetime's work is going to continue to be available to
all.
For your information, I don't have any financial interest in any of this
myself. I am dealing with the Archive CD Books Project as part of my job. As
an owner of a copy of the unindexed Roots and Branches and an avid Welsh
family historian also, I thought that getting it put on CD would make it
more accessible and user friendly, so I approached the project and then Mr
Evans family and eventually it has all come together.
Diolch yn Fawr
Nina Jenkins
London