KEY SOURCES

The Pint of History project www.pint- of-history.wales or www.peint- o-hanes.cymru Explore the project’s discoveries and find out how you can get involved. Cynefin cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk The Cynefin project has digitised over 1,200 Welsh tithe maps. County archive services discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ find-an-archive County archives are a mine of information, not just about the major online sources, but also more specialised local resources. They can often help with free access to subscription databases. And of course, they have many physical records that aren’t available online. Welsh Newspapers Online newspapers.library.wales This handy website can be used search through Welsh newspapers from 1804 all the way up to 1919. The majority of the newspapers available date from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Maps maps.nls.uk Old maps and recent maps are both useful. National Library of Scotland has digitised all the 6-inch OS maps and is working on the 25-inch ones. Commercial sites are also available.

Censuses Access to the images is important. Census records are available online through various commercial sites as well as through local libraries and record offices. Directories specialcollections.le.ac.uk/ cdm/ Many old trade and tourist directories are available online at the Leicester University website. For the 20th century, try telephone directories in the record office.