To: Multiple Recipients of >Greetings list members, > >I just today found this list and am hoping to receive some help from its >members. I want to learn, as best I can, the language and have had no >success finding any courses, books, or other aids for doing so. Could >someone recommend a source to help get me started? I am planning a trip to >Wales this summer and would love to have a little understanding before >leaving here. > >I haven't had the chance to review the list members but if there are any >from Wales I have another special request for them. I've tracked my family >back to Owen Owen who married Emma Pritchard in Caenarvon in December of >1840. Are there any genealogical socities in Wales that might be able to >assist me in tracing the line further back? > >I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. > >Tim Owen Dear Tim. By all means get T.J. Rhys Jones "Living Welsh: A complete working course," readily available from TeachYourself Books, Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1977. It is badly disorganized at various places, esp. toward the end, but it is workable as a beginning book.If you want to write to Wales, get "Cwrs Cymraeg LLafar" by Dan L. James, by Wasg John Penry, 11 Heol Sant Helen, Abertawe. It is in 2 vols and has a record to accompany vol. 1 (I think it is still in print), but I warn you, Welsh publishers take a year and a day to send something, so you should tell them to rush. Good luck. BLS (Blake Lee Spahr)