Resource: Welsh Newspapers Online

[barryd]

Worse to come. Aneurin Bevan, the English Socialist, born in Tredegar, England and represented the constituency Ebbw Vale, England. Place names are governed by the time of the event. To name but a few places internationally.  Birdwood, South Australia, formerly Blumberg, Leningrad, Russia which was formerly St. Petersburg and now back to St. Petersburg and for our American RootsChatters Morgantown Virginia, now Morgantown, West Virginia. 

[GrahamSimons]

The resource is amazing. I have found so much already, just waiting for the Merthyr Express which is promised later in 2013. Found great-grandfather in politics; also found him fined 10/- for horsewhipping a boy for riding his bicycle too fast and obstructing the highway in 1870: I think this must have been a penny-farthing from the description. Lots of family BMD notices, sale of equipment from a failed coal mine, lease of a house, great-uncle's examination in bankruptcy, dispute over a will, dog shows.....
We are promised an advanced search feature soon, too, which will help.
Wish I could read Welsh - lots of mentions of great-grandfather in the Welsh language papers.

[Morganllan]

Wish I could read Welsh - lots of mentions of great-grandfather in the Welsh language papers.

You can copy and paste the text into go*gle and use translate option - very rough but may give the gist of the text. Or you could ask a kind RCer to help 

[GrahamSimons]

Wish I could read Welsh - lots of mentions of great-grandfather in the Welsh language papers.

You can copy and paste the text into go*gle and use translate option - very rough but may give the gist of the text. Or you could ask a kind RCer to help 

I must admit that I am now lazy enough to use an e-translator (I prefer Babelfish to Google) for the languages I can speak, and then brush up the rather iffy output; I've also used it for Spanish to English, using my other languages to bridge any gaps. But my real problem here is that while I can scan 100 hits in English quite quickly, scanning 100 in Welsh would mean so much to-ing and fro-ing that I'm intimidated by the workload! Great-grandfather's name generates several hundred hits, though the workload is reduced by having the same article clearly syndicated to many different titles. And this workload is far too much to ask anyone else to do, when to begin with I'm only trawling for stories.

[trystan]

Graham,
In that case, it's a great time for you to learn some Welsh. 
I managed it, and I was only a baby.
Trystan

[Gadget]

I really got stuck in and have found masses of 'stuff'. I'll have my head in the papers for the next 10 years or more.  I was daft enough to put in Roberts at one stage! Think I'll try my  Jones  lines  next

Morgan - some wonderful info on our area - I've been putting in the names of some of the villages - wonderful, wonderful social history info 

Gadget

[Roobarb]

Thank you, sounds great. 

Just not looking forward to seeing how many results I get for Price and Jones. 

[Morganllan]

I put surname and place-name in the search and found a marriage notification, which saved me buying a certificate!    Well done NLW!!!

[Cell]

I've been putting in the names of some of the villages - wonderful, wonderful social history info 

Gadget

Couldn't agree more .
I've got  to share this one from one of the villages I'm researching

Death of a Miser . A farm labourer had managed to  accumulate  1, 500 (pounds) , They found this sum after his death which he had accumulated from his wages (plus interest) . The money went to his brother , as it seems from the article he lived alone.
 In 1869 he ordered a pair of trousers from a tailor which he wore continually up to the time of his death, the garment being almost good as when it was bought   - He died in 1894 !! , And I thought I was bad not throwing away some of my old loved clothes.

Sensible man

Kind regards