Welsh for Family History.
Whilst looking for some help to understand some old family connections, I came across this video on YouTube.
It gives some great guidance on words that we will see within documents to help us with our research. Picking out the family name section for example...
Teulu - Family
Rhieni - Parents
Plant - Children
Gwraig - Wife
Gwr - Husband
Priod - Spouse
Mam - Mother
Tad - Father
Merch - Daughter
Mab - Son
and for the last four, drop the first letter and then put "Llysf" at the start to make StepMother etc.
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What I found particularly interesting, is that I now live in West Cumbria, which is where my Welsh ancestors ended up after being in Yorkshire. Here in West Cumbria people refer to their mother as Mam. whereas in central Cumbria it is Mum.
I think this could be down to a lot of the people in West Cumbria coming from Wales at the height of the mining industry.
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Thank you for posting the video. It is very interesting and maybe not as daunting as I first though as languages and I have never been on good terms. I'm not too bad at pronouncing place names (some of them) and am very good at 'Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob.' Unfortunately that won't get me very far when it comes to genealogy.
I will need to view this a few times and will definitely look at more of his videos.
Once again thanks.
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