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#CrowdCymru – gwirfoddoli digidol gydag archifau Cymru

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Y tro diwethaf i mi gyfrannu at y blog hwn oedd nôl ym mis Chwefror 2024 [darllenwch e yma] pan oedd ein prosiect yn agosáu at ddiwedd ei flwyddyn gyntaf. Dechreuodd y cyfan gyda chyllid gan Gronf…

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Image 5. University College Magazine, Jan 1888 [held at Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives]
Other collections currently being tackled by our volunteers include an early 20th century photographic collection of atmospheric images of south Wales taken as a basis for postcards and a 19th century Logbook of St David's College, Lampeter (the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, now University of Wales Trinity Saint David). However, one particular collection of early minute books from a south Wales Women's Institute group led to our discovery of a very interesting character who, with a bit of detective work, was subsequently found to be recorded in two other archive repositories, both helping us to learn more about her.

Blanche Baker-Gabb became known to us via her sterling work that's documented across the pages of early Llanwenarth Women's Institute Minute Books held by Gwent Archives. The volunteers loved transcribing these books as they opened a vivid window into a past world devoid of the overwhelm and immediacy that modern technology has landed on us today. A little bit of research brought to light the Baker-Gabb family archive held at the National Library Wales, this archive includes two volumes of handwritten meteorological (thermometer, barometer, and rain gauge) readings recorded at the Baker-Gabb residence, The Chain, in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, during the period 1881 to 1947. The weather readings appear to have been recorded by Blanche's older brother, Richard Frederick, as other members of the family are mentioned in the third person. We learn more about Blanche in these registers, as along the bottom of each of the intricately detailed tables is a tiny diary entry recording the daily life of the family. From these excerpts we learn that Blanche, being from an affluent family, was able to enjoy a comfortable, carefree, and vibrant social life visiting London regularly, lunching out with a long list of friends, playing lots of sport and frequent trips abroad.

Image 6. Blanche Baker-Gabb passport photograph 1920 (image courtesy National Library of Wales)
However, there was much more to Blanche than high society living; she was a suffragette, regularly attending meetings and listed as a member in Women's Suffrage: The Common Cause of Humanity from as early as 1914. She was an active member of many societies including being Secretary of the Abergavenny branch of the Girl's Friendly Society and regularly attending national society meetings in London. She also sat on the local Eisteddfod committee, and from 1915 onwards, she attended meetings of the British Red Cross, Women on the Land, and the War Agricultural Committee.

Finally, Blanche's name was found on a remarkable petition along with another 400,000 signatures of Welsh women who pledged to champion everlasting world peace after the horrors of the First World War. The petition was organised by the Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) and served as a plea from the women of Wales to the women of America to persuade their US President to join and lead the newly established League of Nations. Women in Wales appealed to America 'from home to home' and from 'hearth to hearth' in a powerful call for 'LAW NOT WAR'. This campaign was a remarkable Wales-wide effort involving almost every household, with peace activists going door to door to advocate for new signatures. A Welsh delegation, led by WLNU Chair, Annie Hughes-Griffiths, travelled from Wales to America in March 1924 to formally present the petition and embark on a two month 'Peace Tour' of the United States.

Image 7. Blanche Baker-Gabb signature on the Welsh Women's Peace Petition 1923 (image courtesy National Library of Wales)
Archives are full of characters like Blanche, perhaps unexceptional in the grand scheme of things but whose stories tell us much about the time in which they lived. Here we have an example of archives at their most accessible best, signposting our own journeys through heritage collections and history, to ignite new connections so vital to bring stories together. I have already shared Blanche's story via a blog post here and gave a talk at the Women's Archive Wales Conference in Aberystwyth in October 2025.

As Project Officer, my core job is to support our wonderful group of volunteers and to keep them engaged because there are so many other amazing volunteer projects out there! I do this primarily by keeping in touch and sending out a monthly email. I'll always begin with relevant news, background information on new collections with any updated guidelines, and a list of the outreach activities I may have been up to. I end with a list of links to news items of possible interest - related articles and blog posts to be savoured over a cuppa and a slice of cake.

All new volunteers are offered an online training session and additional refresher sessions if needed. Every now and again, I'll also hold an online social where I invite our volunteers to gather to chat and get to know each other, wherever we are based in Wales or the world. This can be an important activity as many volunteers, when asked what they'd like to get out of digital volunteering, tick the "to meet new people" option. These sessions are also important for me personally as I largely work from home and my regular daily human interactions are pretty limited!

Another popular activity has been One Minute Wonders, where our volunteers were invited to select their favourite document, and write a short piece to tell us why. This activity was inspired by the One Minute Wonders display of art in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, where each artwork links to a story written by a volunteer. We ran this activity back in 2023 and as it was so popular we ran it again a few months ago; these lovely submissions have been uploaded onto the project's digital platform.

Image 8. #Crowd Cymru One Minute Wonder submissions

Over the past few years, we have endeavoured to keep our profile visible via social media, recently moving from X to Bluesky, guest posting on blogs including this one for the WCVA, and old school in-person engagement, presenting to interested community groups and events because there's nothing quite like connecting with a room full of people, bouncing ideas of each other and delighting in a shared interest.

We also believe in sharing knowledge and best practice and have to date published two project reports, the first was published at the end of our NLHF phase and the second was recently published after our first year of Welsh Government funding - both can be found on our project website here: #CrowdCymru | Gwent Archives

So, what does the future hold? Hopefully lots of exciting things! Our current funding phase comes to an end in March 2026, but we have high hopes of obtaining further funding - watch this space!

As mentioned previously, we are now a growing partnership of nine institutions bursting with fascinating collections to share with Wales and the world - our core aim has always been to improve collection descriptions, amplify access to digital collections and ignite new research today and in the future: while in turn, improving the knowledge of the vast collections of the partner organisations. And what better way to achieve these aims than an exciting new collaboration between #CrowdCymru and People's Collection Wales, the free website dedicated to bringing together Wales's heritage. Established in 2010, they're a small Welsh Government funded team with three leading partner institutions: Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, National Library of Wales and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. They are passionate about celebrating and sharing Wales's culture and heritage , believing that everyone has a piece of the jigsaw that weaves the rich story of Wales - be it a memory, a letter, an old photograph or a sound recording. Their aim is to capture and share these often-untold stories on the website for future generations to enjoy. We are very much looking forward to working with this organisation while continuing to share our own fascinating collections and stories.

If you'd like to join our vibrant team of #CrowdCymru volunteers, or if you're already part of a community group you think might be interested, please get in touch with me as, I'm eager to come and talk to you and we can run training sessions online or in person.

Jennifer Evans

Digital Volunteering Project Officer

Website: #CrowdCymru | Gwent Archives

Email: jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

Phone 01495 742450

This article titled #CrowdCymru - digital volunteering with the archives of Wales by Jennifer Evans is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image 5. University College Magazine, Jan 1888 [held at Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives]
Other collections currently being tackled by our volunteers include an early 20th century photographic collection of atmospheric images of south Wales taken as a basis for postcards and a 19th century Logbook of St David's College, Lampeter (the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, now University of Wales Trinity Saint David). However, one particular collection of early minute books from a south Wales Women's Institute group led to our discovery of a very interesting character who, with a bit of detective work, was subsequently found to be recorded in two other archive repositories, both helping us to learn more about her.

Blanche Baker-Gabb became known to us via her sterling work that's documented across the pages of early Llanwenarth Women's Institute Minute Books held by Gwent Archives. The volunteers loved transcribing these books as they opened a vivid window into a past world devoid of the overwhelm and immediacy that modern technology has landed on us today. A little bit of research brought to light the Baker-Gabb family archive held at the National Library Wales, this archive includes two volumes of handwritten meteorological (thermometer, barometer, and rain gauge) readings recorded at the Baker-Gabb residence, The Chain, in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, during the period 1881 to 1947. The weather readings appear to have been recorded by Blanche's older brother, Richard Frederick, as other members of the family are mentioned in the third person. We learn more about Blanche in these registers, as along the bottom of each of the intricately detailed tables is a tiny diary entry recording the daily life of the family. From these excerpts we learn that Blanche, being from an affluent family, was able to enjoy a comfortable, carefree, and vibrant social life visiting London regularly, lunching out with a long list of friends, playing lots of sport and frequent trips abroad.

Image 6. Blanche Baker-Gabb passport photograph 1920 (image courtesy National Library of Wales)
However, there was much more to Blanche than high society living; she was a suffragette, regularly attending meetings and listed as a member in Women's Suffrage: The Common Cause of Humanity from as early as 1914. She was an active member of many societies including being Secretary of the Abergavenny branch of the Girl's Friendly Society and regularly attending national society meetings in London. She also sat on the local Eisteddfod committee, and from 1915 onwards, she attended meetings of the British Red Cross, Women on the Land, and the War Agricultural Committee.

Finally, Blanche's name was found on a remarkable petition along with another 400,000 signatures of Welsh women who pledged to champion everlasting world peace after the horrors of the First World War. The petition was organised by the Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) and served as a plea from the women of Wales to the women of America to persuade their US President to join and lead the newly established League of Nations. Women in Wales appealed to America 'from home to home' and from 'hearth to hearth' in a powerful call for 'LAW NOT WAR'. This campaign was a remarkable Wales-wide effort involving almost every household, with peace activists going door to door to advocate for new signatures. A Welsh delegation, led by WLNU Chair, Annie Hughes-Griffiths, travelled from Wales to America in March 1924 to formally present the petition and embark on a two month 'Peace Tour' of the United States.

Image 7. Blanche Baker-Gabb signature on the Welsh Women's Peace Petition 1923 (image courtesy National Library of Wales)
Archives are full of characters like Blanche, perhaps unexceptional in the grand scheme of things but whose stories tell us much about the time in which they lived. Here we have an example of archives at their most accessible best, signposting our own journeys through heritage collections and history, to ignite new connections so vital to bring stories together. I have already shared Blanche's story via a blog post here and gave a talk at the Women's Archive Wales Conference in Aberystwyth in October 2025.

As Project Officer, my core job is to support our wonderful group of volunteers and to keep them engaged because there are so many other amazing volunteer projects out there! I do this primarily by keeping in touch and sending out a monthly email. I'll always begin with relevant news, background information on new collections with any updated guidelines, and a list of the outreach activities I may have been up to. I end with a list of links to news items of possible interest - related articles and blog posts to be savoured over a cuppa and a slice of cake.

All new volunteers are offered an online training session and additional refresher sessions if needed. Every now and again, I'll also hold an online social where I invite our volunteers to gather to chat and get to know each other, wherever we are based in Wales or the world. This can be an important activity as many volunteers, when asked what they'd like to get out of digital volunteering, tick the "to meet new people" option. These sessions are also important for me personally as I largely work from home and my regular daily human interactions are pretty limited!

Another popular activity has been One Minute Wonders, where our volunteers were invited to select their favourite document, and write a short piece to tell us why. This activity was inspired by the One Minute Wonders display of art in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, where each artwork links to a story written by a volunteer. We ran this activity back in 2023 and as it was so popular we ran it again a few months ago; these lovely submissions have been uploaded onto the project's digital platform.

Image 8. #Crowd Cymru One Minute Wonder submissions

Over the past few years, we have endeavoured to keep our profile visible via social media, recently moving from X to Bluesky, guest posting on blogs including this one for the WCVA, and old school in-person engagement, presenting to interested community groups and events because there's nothing quite like connecting with a room full of people, bouncing ideas of each other and delighting in a shared interest.

We also believe in sharing knowledge and best practice and have to date published two project reports, the first was published at the end of our NLHF phase and the second was recently published after our first year of Welsh Government funding - both can be found on our project website here: #CrowdCymru | Gwent Archives

So, what does the future hold? Hopefully lots of exciting things! Our current funding phase comes to an end in March 2026, but we have high hopes of obtaining further funding - watch this space!

As mentioned previously, we are now a growing partnership of nine institutions bursting with fascinating collections to share with Wales and the world - our core aim has always been to improve collection descriptions, amplify access to digital collections and ignite new research today and in the future: while in turn, improving the knowledge of the vast collections of the partner organisations. And what better way to achieve these aims than an exciting new collaboration between #CrowdCymru and People's Collection Wales, the free website dedicated to bringing together Wales's heritage. Established in 2010, they're a small Welsh Government funded team with three leading partner institutions: Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, National Library of Wales and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. They are passionate about celebrating and sharing Wales's culture and heritage , believing that everyone has a piece of the jigsaw that weaves the rich story of Wales - be it a memory, a letter, an old photograph or a sound recording. Their aim is to capture and share these often-untold stories on the website for future generations to enjoy. We are very much looking forward to working with this organisation while continuing to share our own fascinating collections and stories.

If you'd like to join our vibrant team of #CrowdCymru volunteers, or if you're already part of a community group you think might be interested, please get in touch with me as, I'm eager to come and talk to you and we can run training sessions online or in person.

Jennifer Evans

Digital Volunteering Project Officer

Website: #CrowdCymru | Gwent Archives

Email: jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

Phone 01495 742450

This article titled #CrowdCymru - digital volunteering with the archives of Wales by Jennifer Evans is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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#CrowdCymru - digital volunteering with the archives of Wales - Archives & Records Association

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Jennifer Evans , Digital Volunteering Project Officer for #CrowdCymru contributes this guest blog for the ARA Website: #CrowdCymru - digital volunteering with the archives of Wales Phew, what a difference a few years make! I last contributed to this blog back in 2023 [read it here ] when our p

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Crowd Cymru table at History and Heritage Fair, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea 27.09.2025 [2]

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Crowd Cymru (@crowdcymru.bsky.social) — Bluesky

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Cofnodion Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen Records, 1962-1980

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Cofnodion Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen Records, 1962-1980

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Cofnodion Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen Records

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Llyfrau lloffion sydd yn cynnwys torion papur newydd yn ymwneud â gweithgareddau’r ysgol, athrawon, a chyn-ddisgyblion. Gan gynnwys ffotograffau, tocynnau, posteri, rhaglenni digwyddiadau’r ysgol a …

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O archifau Richard Burton, a gynhelir yn Y Brifysgol Abertawe, yn benodol Casgliad Cwm Ffosau De Cymru, sy'n cynnwys deunyddion pwysig sy'n gysylltiedig â Rhyfel Cartref Sbaen a'r rhan a chwaraeodd gwirfoddolwyr Cymreig.

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Llyfr nodiadau a grëwyd gan Jack Roberts tra oedd yn Ysgol Hyfforddiant Swyddogion y Ddraig Ryngwladol, Tarrazona, Sbaen yn 1937

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Llyfr nodiadau a grëwyd gan Jack Roberts tra oedd yn Ysgol Hyfforddiant Swyddogion y Ddraig Ryngwladol, Tarrazona, Sbaen yn 1937

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Spanish Civil War - Richard Burton Archives - LibGuides at Swansea University

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Helo bawb, Jen sydd yma, Swyddog Prosiect Gwirfoddoli Digidol CrowdCymru. Dyma ddiweddariad a crynodeb o’r cyfnod a ariennir gan Dreftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol o’n prosiect gwirfoddo…

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Gwasanaethau a gwybodaeth Llywodraeth Cymru

Addysg a sgiliau
Ysgolion, addysg bellach ac addysg uwch, sgiliau a hyfforddiant galwedigaethol, cyllid i fyfyrwyr

Adeiladu a chynllunio
Caniatâd cynllunio, rheoliadau adeiladu, cynlluniau datblygu lleol

Busnes, yr economi ac arloesi
Cymorth busnes, dinas-ranbarthau, twristiaeth, digidol, band eang a'r rhwydwaith symudol, gwyddoniaeth

Coronafeirws (COVID-19)
Cyngor a chefnogaeth ar coronafeirws

Cydraddoldeb a hawliau dynol
Cam-drin domestig a thrais rhywiol, amrywiaeth

Cyfiawnder a chyfraith
Polisi cyfiawnder, carchardai a'r prawf

Cyflogaeth a gwaith
Cymorth i gael mynediad at waith, gwaith teg ac undebau llafur

Cymunedau ac adfywio
Arian a chynhwysiant ariannol, Rhaglen cyfleusterau cymunedol, trydydd (gwirfoddol) sector

Ffermio a chefn gwlad
RPW Ar-lein, taliadau gwledig, symud anifeiliaid, iechyd anifeiliaid, coedwigaeth

Iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol
Cyflyrau iechyd, rheoli'r GIG, gofal cymdeithasol

Plant a theuluoedd
Dechrau'n Deg, gofal plant, help i deuluoedd, hawliau plant

Rhyngwladol a'r UE
Cronfeydd Strwythurol a Buddsoddi Ewropeaidd, cyfnod pontio (Brexit), Wcráin

Tai
Gosod eich eiddo, help i fod yn berchen ar gartref, benthyciadau i wneud gwelliannau i'ch cartref

Trafnidiaeth
Pasys bws, gwella ffyrdd, cynlluniau trafnidiaeth lleol, beicio a cherdded

Y celfyddydau, diwylliant a chwaraeon
Chwaraeon Cymru, yr amgylchedd hanesyddol a nofio am ddim

Y Gymraeg
Tribiwnlys y Gymraeg, hyrwyddo'r Gymraeg

Y môr a physgodfeydd
Cynllunio morol, y gronfa forol a physgodfeydd, trwyddedau pysgota, cadwraeth forol

Y sector cyhoeddus
Llywodraeth leol, cyrff cyhoeddus, caffael, llywodraeth agored a thryloywder

Yr amgylchedd a'r newid yn yr hinsawdd
Ailgylchu, economi gylchol, llifogydd, llygredd ac allyriadau

Sefydliadau

Maent yn cynnwys cyrff cyhoeddus, grwpiau cynghori a chwmnïau Llywodraeth Cymru.

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Gwasanaethau a gwybodaeth Llywodraeth Cymru Addysg a sgiliau Ysgolion, addysg bellach ac addysg uwch, sgiliau a hyfforddiant galwedigaethol, cyllid i fyfyrwyr Adeiladu a chynllunio Caniatâd cynllunio, rheoliadau adeiladu, cynlluniau datblygu lleol Busnes, yr economi ac arloesi Cymorth busnes, dinas-ranbarthau, twristiaeth, digidol, band eang a'r rhwydwaith symudol, gwyddoniaeth Coronafeirws (COVID-19) Cyngor

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CC online social 30.01.2025 [publisher] with names deleted

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Cyflwyniad i GFHS [cangen Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr] 15.02.2025

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Presentation to GFHS [Bridgend branch] 15.02.2025

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Llyfr log Coleg Dewi Sant, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, Cofnodion, Medi 1875-1886

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Llyfr log Coleg Dewi Sant, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, Cofnodion, Medi 1875-1886

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Rolls family (Barons Llangattock), of The Hendre, documents [c. 1617]-1952GB0218.D361

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James James of the parish of Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, Monmouthshire, settled in London and acquired a valuable estate in Southwark, Surrey. He purchased several farms and parcels of land in Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern and Llangattock-Vibon-Avel between 1639 and 1648. In his will of 1677 he left his estate to his only surviving child, Sarah, wife of Dr Elisha Coysh, a London physician. Their daughter married William Allen, who also bought land in Monmouthshire. William Allen’s daughter and heir married her cousin Thomas Coysh. They were succeeded by their son Richard Coysh, who was succeeded by his sister Sarah (d. 1801), the eventual sole heir of the families of Coysh, Allen and James. Sarah married John Rolls (1735-1801) of the Grange, Bermondsey, and of the Hendre, Monmouthshire, sheriff of Monmouthshire 1794, bringing him much property both in Monmouthshire and London. John Rolls died the day after his wife. John Rolls was succeeded by his son John Rolls (1776-1837) of the Hendre, who was succeed by his son John Etherington Welch Rolls (1807-70), sheriff of Monmouthshire 1842. He was succeeded by his son John Allan Rolls (1837-1912), sheriff in 1875 and MP for Monmouthshire, 1880-1885, created Baron Llangattock of the Hendre, 1892, who was succeeded by his son John Maclean Rolls (1870-1916, dsp.), 2nd Baron Llangattock, sheriff in 1900. He was succeeded by his sister Eleanor Georgiana (d. 1961), wife of John Courtown Edward Shelley. Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910, dsp), a younger son of John Allan Rolls, was one of the founding partners of the Rolls-Royce aero engine and motor car manufacturers.

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Edwin Miles Photographic Collection comprising of black and white photographic glass negatives of scenes from Bridgend and the Vale of Glamorgan taken by Edwin Miles for the production of postcards, …

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Llawysgrifau Edward a Helen Thomas - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

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Dysgwch fwy am lawysgrifau Edward a Helen Thomas sydd yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru.

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Ffotograffau o ysgolion academaidd, adeiladau, staff, myfyrwyr, a golygfeydd o'r ystâd

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru postiad blog 2

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Cysylltiadau trwy archifau digidol: bywyd Blanche Baker-Gabb trwy lygaid Crowd Cymru, Archif Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru a Deiseb Heddwch Menywod Cymru.

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Bywyd Blanche Baker-Gabb trwy lygaid Crowd Cymru, Archif Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru a Deiseb Heddwch Menywod Cymru.

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Yma, mae Jen Evans o fudiad Crowd Cymru yn dweud wrthym ni sut mae eu prosiect archifo digidol yn galluogi gwirfoddolwyr o bedwar ban byd i gloddio i hanes cyfoethog Cymru.

Prosiect gwirfoddoli digidol yw Crowd Cymru sy'n harneisio gwybodaeth eithriadol unigolion ledled Cymru - a thu hwnt - i helpu i wella'r wybodaeth am ein casgliadau archif digidol.

EDRYCH AR HANES CYMRU

Daw ein gwirfoddolwyr o bob cwr o'r byd ac maen nhw'n cymryd rhan ar-lein drwy blatfform cyfrannu torfol digidol a dwyieithog a sefydlwyd gan Lyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Mae'r platfform hwn yn galluogi gwirfoddolwyr o bell i weithio ar gasgliadau digidol.

Mae gan y gwasanaethau archifo ledled Cymru filiynau o gofnodion na ellir eu hamnewid, ond dim ond y catalogio lleiaf sydd wedi'i wneud ar lawer ac maen nhw'n anodd eu hadnabod ac yn anodd dod o hyd iddynt. Mae ein prosiect ni'n harneisio gwybodaeth pobl ledled Cymru a thu hwnt i gyfoethogi ein treftadaeth gyfunol er budd y genhedlaeth hon a chenedlaethau'r dyfodol - yn lleol, yn genedlaethol ac yn fyd-eang.

Mae sgiliau digidol a chynhwysiant digidol yn flaenoriaethau allweddol i Lywodraeth Cymru, ac rydym yn helpu pobl i wneud y defnydd gorau o dechnolegau digidol a datblygu eu sgiliau o ran chwilio am gyfleoedd yn y gweithle ac er llesiant.

DATBLYGU SGILIAU DIGIDOL

Rydym hefyd yn gwella cyfleoedd i wasanaethau archifo ddatblygu modelau newydd ar gyfer gwirfoddoli o bell, heb fod angen teithio, sy'n cefnogi uchelgais Llywodraeth Cymru i leihau ein hôl troed carbon.

Un o'r casgliadau cyntaf y gwnaeth ein gwirfoddolwyr weithio arno oedd trawsgrifio cofnodion ingol yn nyddiadur y bardd Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf, Edward Thomas. Daeth y casgliad hwn o Gasgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Caerdydd ac roeddent yn boblogaidd iawn.
Archif Edward Thomas (Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Caerdydd)
Gwnaeth un o'n gwirfoddolwyr hyd yn oed ganolbwyntio ei phrosiect terfynol ar gyfer ei MA mewn Celfyddyd Gain ar archwilio archif a chof, a oedd yn seiliedig ar Edward Thomas a'i wraig, Helen.

HANES CYFOETHOG

Mae gwirfoddolwyr hefyd wedi bod yn trawsgrifio casgliad o ddogfennau archifol sy'n eiddo i deulu Rolls y 19eg ganrif o'r Fenni. Un o'r casgliadau mwy diddorol yn yr archif hwn yw cyfres o gofnodion gwyliau a ysgrifennwyd gan Georgiana Marcia Rolls, yr aeth ei mab ieuengaf, Charles Stuart, ymlaen i fod yn gyd-sylfaenydd Rolls-Royce.
Dyddiadur Georgiana Marcia Maclean, 1886, Archif Teulu Rolls (Archifau Gwent)
Mae ei dyddiaduron cyfareddol yn gyfuniad o destun ysgrifenedig a darluniau inc sy'n dangos amser hamdden teulu cyfoethog wedi'u sbwylio i'r dim.

Yn ogystal â thrawsgrifio, mae ein gwirfoddolwyr hefyd yn gweithio ar dagio a disgrifio casgliadau ffotograffig. Ar y foment, maen nhw'n gweithio ar gasgliad o luniau o Ben-y-bont ar Ogwr a Bro Morgannwg o ddechrau'r 20fed ganrif sydd yn Archifau Morgannwg.
Porthdy Merthyr Mawr yn y Gaeaf gan Edwin Miles (Archifau Morgannwg)
Maen nhw'n gwneud yr un peth gyda chasgliad ffotograffig mawr sy'n olrhain hanes Prifysgol Caerdydd ac yn cyflwyno cofiannau gweledol diddorol iawn o fyfyrwyr a staff sy'n mynd yn ôl i 1883.
Dosbarth optometreg tua 1970 Archif Sefydliadol Prifysgol Caerdydd
(Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Caerdydd)
BUDDSODDI YN Y GORFFENNOL A'R DYFODOL

Mae wedi cymryd cryn amser i gynyddu ein grŵp o wirfoddolwyr ac rydym yn gweithio'n galed i gadw'u diddordeb. Gwyddom o'r adborth eu bod yn gweld y math hwn o waith yn wobrwyol tu hwnt ac maen nhw'n elwa ar gynorthwyo gwaith archifau yng Nghymru, gan rannu diddordebau cyffredin a gweithio ochr yn ochr â phobl o'r un anian.

Maen nhw hefyd yn mwynhau cael mynediad at hyfforddiant a gwell sgiliau llythrennedd TG. Mae mynediad at luniau a dogfennau hanesyddol hefyd o fudd, ynghyd â phrofiad ymarferol, gwerthfawr o weithio gydag archifau digidol.

Rydym yn cynnig hyfforddiant un-i-un, digwyddiadau cymdeithasol ar-lein a Grŵp Facebook caeedig i wirfoddolwyr cofrestredig. Mae gennym hefyd gyfrif X byw i hyrwyddo cynnydd, amlygu casgliadau a hybu cymorth i gyfrifon archif, llyfrgell, amgueddfeydd a threftadaeth eraill.

RHAGOR O WYBODAETH

Wedi'i sefydlu yn 2022, mae Crowd Cymru yn brosiect archifau digidol gwirfoddol a gyllidir gan Lywodraeth Cymru a'i redeg ar y cyd gan y mudiadau partner canlynol: Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Caerdydd, Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin, Archifau Conwy, Archifau Morgannwg, Archifau Gwent, Llyfrgelloedd ac Archifau Prifysgol Abertawe a Chasgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant.

Gellir darllen mwy am ein gweithgareddau yn ystod y tair blynedd ddiwethaf, gan gynnwys cyflwyniadau, erthyglau a phodlediadau, drwy ein tudalen prosiect.

EISIAU CYMRYD RHAN?

Ydych chi'n credu y gallai fod gennych ddiddordeb mewn ymuno â Crowd Cymru?

Os ydych, cysylltwch â ni. Rydyn ni'n fwy na bodlon dod i siarad â grwpiau a/neu drefnu gweithdai, wyneb yn wyneb os yn bosibl neu ar-lein. Mae ein cyfnod cyllido presennol yn dod i ben ar 31 Mawrth 2025, felly peidiwch ag oedi!

E-bost:  jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

Ffôn: 01495 742450

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Yma, mae Jen Evans o fudiad Crowd Cymru yn dweud wrthym ni sut mae eu prosiect archifo digidol yn galluogi gwirfoddolwyr o bedwar ban byd i gloddio i hanes cyfoethog Cymru.

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Helô! Fy enw i yw Jen a fi yw Swyddog Prosiect Gwirfoddoli Digidol CrowdCymru.

Lansiwyd y prosiect gwirfoddoli archifau digidol hwn nôl yn 2022 gyda chyllid gan Gronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol. Daeth cam cyntaf y prosiect i ben ym mis Tachwedd 2023 ac wrth edrych yn ôl, rwy'n dal i ryfeddu at yr hyn rydyn ni wedi llwyddo i'w gyflawni.

Gallwch fynd at y pum blog a bostiwyd ar wefan Cyngor Archifau a Chofnodion Cymru, sy'n olrhain y cyfnod hwn, trwy roi "Crowd Cymru" yn y blwch chwilio ar ochr dde uchaf y dudalen 'Cartref'.

Ond, dyma grynodeb byr o 16 o fisoedd anhygoel!

Sefydlwyd y prosiect hwn i dreialu cymuned dorfoli fyd-eang i Gymru drwy waith ar y cyd rhwng Archifau Gwent, Archifau Morgannwg, Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Caerdydd a Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Y nod oedd adeiladu platfform torfoli a chymuned ar gyfer archifau yng Nghymru; dull cenedlaethol, cydlynol na welwyd ei debyg o'r blaen yn y DU, i ffrwyno gwybodaeth ac amser dinasyddion byd-eang i gyfoethogi metadata sylfaenol a oedd eisoes yn bodoli, sicrhau bod y casgliadau archif sylfaenol hyn yn fwy gweledol, ac ennyn ymchwil newydd.

Treuliwyd yr ychydig fisoedd cyntaf yn chwilio am gronfa o wirfoddolwyr a oedd yn hapus i weithio o bell, gartref, ac ar hyn o bryd mae gennym 87 gwirfoddolwr. Ar ôl sefydlu'r grŵp, dan arweiniad Paul McCann [Rheolwr Prosiectau Ymchwil, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru] trefnais sesiynau hyfforddi ar-lein er mwyn iddynt ymgyfarwyddo â'r platfform digidol y byddai'r holl waith yn cael ei wneud arno.

Yn y cyfamser, roedd Paul hefyd yn gweithio gydag Archifau Gwent, Archifau Morgannwg, a Chasgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Caerdydd i uwchlwytho'u casgliadau archifau i'r platfform.

Casgliad o lythyrau gan Edward Thomas, bardd rhyfel o'r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf, oedd y casgliad cyntaf y gofynnwyd i'r gwirfoddolwyr ei drawsgrifio. Nid oedd y casgliad hwn, a gadwyd ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, yn ddechrau hawdd gan fod y cynnwys yn sensitif ac roedd yn anodd darllen ei lawysgrifen. Fodd bynnag, profodd hefyd i fod yn un o'r rhai mwyaf poblogaidd, a defnyddiodd un gwirfoddolwr stori a geiriau Thomas fel rhan o'i gwaith tuag at radd MA mewn Celfyddyd Gain. Fe'u defnyddiodd fel testun ar gyfer un o gyfres o gylchgronau wedi'u gwneud â llaw a grëwyd fel rhan o archwiliad o archif a chof, a'r ffordd y mae bywydau'r gorffennol yn cael eu cadw a'u cofnodi.

I ddilyn, cafwyd casgliad arall i'w drawsgrifio, sef dyddiaduron amser rhyfel Priscilla Scott-Ellis, nyrs wirfoddol yn Rhyfel Cartref Sbaen a'r Ail Ryfel Byd. Roedd ei llawysgrifen gymaint yn gliriach ond llwyddodd ei chydymdeimlad â Ffasgiaeth Franco i hollti'r ystafell!

Roedd y partneriaid hefyd wedi rhoi casgliadau ffotograffig i'r gwirfoddolwyr er mwyn eu disgrifio a'u tagio. Ychwanegodd Archifau Morgannwg Gasgliad Cymuned Dociau Caerdydd, sef portreadau o unigolion a grwpiau gan gynnwys menywod a phlant, o gymuned dociau Caerdydd, a dynnwyd rhwng 1900 a 1920. Ychwanegodd Archifau Gwent Archif Rygbi ac Athletau Casnewydd, sy'n olrhain hanes y clwb ynghyd â chasgliad pwysig iawn o effemera gan grŵp lesbiaidd a hoyw o ddechrau'r 1980au.

Rydym wedi cael sylw mewn nifer o gyhoeddiadau gan gynnwys cylchgrawn Who Do You Think You Are a chylchgrawn Archive & Records Association Members [ARC] a hefyd wedi recordio podlediad ar gyfer The Archives & Records Association. Gwrandewch ar ein pennod.

Cawsom sylw hefyd yn Adroddiad Agor yr Archifau 2023 Archifau Cymru a A Year in Archives 2023 Yr Archifau Gwladol.

Gall rheoli a chefnogi tîm o wirfoddolwyr sy'n gweithio o bell fod yn heriol, gan fod ein grŵp wedi'i wasgaru'n llythrennol ledled y byd! Felly, rydym wedi cynnig sesiynau hyfforddi grŵp ar-lein a chyfleoedd i ddod at ein gilydd yn gymdeithasol, ynghyd â chylchlythyr wythnosol a grŵp Facebook.

Rydym bellach yn dechrau ar gam dau CrowdCymru ac mae arian y Loteri Genedlaethol wedi dod i ben a chyllid newydd gan Lyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru wedi dechrau ac yn ein cario ni hyd ddiwedd mis Mai 2024. Mae hyn yn rhan o waith y Llyfrgell ar brosiect Ein Treftadaeth, Ein Straeon sy'n cysylltu cynnwys digidol a gynhyrchir gan y gymuned, ac yn chwilio drwyddo, i ddatblygu casgliad cenedlaethol y werin.

Felly, gall ein gwirfoddolwyr craff barhau i weithio i wella mynediad i'r casgliadau hyn a'n symud tuag at y camau nesaf yn ein gweledigaeth ar gyfer dyfodol hygyrch, cysylltiedig a byd-eang ar gyfer archifau cudd ac ymchwil newydd yng Nghymru.

Ar hyn o bryd maen nhw'n gweithio ar gasgliad o lyfrau cofnodion cynnar gan gangen Llanwenarth o Sefydliad y Merched [a gedwir yn Archifau Gwent] ac maen nhw eisoes yn gweiddi am fwy! Mae trawsgrifio'r hyn sydd, yng geiriau un gwirfoddolwr, "yn fyd coll o fywyd rhwng y rhyfeloedd" wedi dal eu dychymyg ac ymddengys ei fod wedi rhoi lloches dros dro iddynt rhag ansicrwydd a chynnwrf yr oes sydd ohoni.

Fel y soniwyd uchod, gellir dod o hyd i holl allbynnau ein cam cyntaf, gan gynnwys llawlyfr y prosiect, ar dudalen y prosiect.

Mae yna ragor o gasgliadau ar droed, a byddaf yn postio eto yn fuan i roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i chi.

Yn y cyfamser, os hoffech chi ymuno â'n criw llawen o wirfoddolwyr, neu, os ydych chi'n rhan o grŵp hanes cymunedol ac eisiau i fi ddod i siarad â chi, da chi, cysylltwch.

Jennifer Evans
Swyddog Prosiect Gwirfoddoli Digidol
Twitter: CrowdCymru
Ffôn: 01495 742450
Ebost: jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

Mae'r blog hwn o'r enw Croeso i Crowd Cymru gan Jennifer Evans wedi'i drwyddedu o dan Drwydded Ryngwladol Creative Commons Priodoliad 4.0.

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Prosiect ar y cyd rhwng Archifau Gwent, Archifau Morgannwg, Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Cymru a Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru yw Crowd Cymru i ddatblygu c...

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Grŵp Lesbiaid a Hoywon Gwent yn 1986 i gynnig rhywbeth gwahanol yn lle bywyd hoyw Caerdydd ac roedd yn trefnu disgos misol, cylchlythyron, cyfarfodydd, teithiau a grwpiau ysgrifennu. Roedden nhw’n gweithio hefyd i rannu gwybodaeth am HIV ac AIDS ac roedden nhw’n cael trafferth i gael hyd i fannau cyfarfod oherwydd rhagfarn o gylch argyfwng AIDS.

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Public Record Office of Northern Ireland CollabArchive is a partnership project between the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and Nerve Centre, supported by National Heritage Lottery Fund. The project aims to encourage a focus on developing digital skills. The project developed volunteer programmes based on themes of women’s history, migration, LGBT history and […]

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Gweithdy bywiog Torf Cymru yn Llyfrgell yr Eglwys Newydd, Caerdydd, de Cymru, ar y cyd â Gwasanaeth Cymorth Lles Caerdydd [14 Medi 2023].

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Mae’r ddelwedd yn dangos y chwaraewyr tennis, Heather Brewer a Jennifer Middleton, tua 1950. Cedwir y casgliad yn Archifau Gwent.

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Gweithdy yn Capel i Bawb, Caerdydd 29/06/2023.

Trefnwyd gan Wasanaethau Lles Caerdydd.

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Crowd Cymru Digital Archives Volunteering Project

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Cyflwyniad i Fforwm Cyngor Archifau a Chofnodion Cymru

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Cyflwyniad i Fforwm Cyngor Archifau a Chofnodion Cymru

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Apêl i ddarganfod ‘miliynau o straeon arbennig’ mewn archif ddigidol newydd

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Mae partneriaid prosiect #CrowdCymru yn dweud bod "miliynau o gofnodion unigryw a straeon arbennig" i’w darganfod.

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In this guest post, Jennifer Evans, Digital Volunteering Project Officer for #CrowdCymru gives an overview of this crowdsourced digital archive project.
Hello there, I'm Project Officer on a very exciting digital archives volunteer project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and run jointly by Gwent Archives, Glamorgan Archives and Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives.

The idea for the project was born from a need to demonstrate that these project partners were endeavouring to taking a swift, proactive, and collaborative approach to modernise their services to meet the ambitious roadmap of the Welsh Government's Digital Strategy of Wales which aims to "improve the lives of everyone through collaboration, innovation and better public services". Moreover, the pandemic has forced archive services to revisit their purpose, reach and value, and adapt their services within a broader local, national, and international context. This project will equip more people with the digital skills they now need to remain well-connected across their communities and to develop these skills to take full advantage in seeking opportunities in the workplace and for wellbeing. We also aim to transform opportunities for archives services to develop new models for remote volunteering without the need to travel that support the Welsh Government's ambition to reduce our carbon footprint.

All the work our volunteers do is accessed via a crowdsourcing platform established by those very clever people at the National Library Wales. This fully bilingual online platform enables remote volunteers to tag and transcribe the digital heritage collections held within these repositories.

Archive services across Wales hold millions of irreplaceable records, but many are only minimally catalogued and therefore difficult to identify and find. This project is harnessing the knowledge of individuals in communities across Wales and beyond to enrich our collective heritage for the benefit of current and future generations - locally, nationally, and globally.

Our volunteer numbers currently stand at ninety and although the majority come from Wales, we also have sign-ups from USA, Canada, Australia & South Korea! The work they have so valiantly been ploughing through began with transcribing handwritten documents and now they've moved on to tagging and describing photographs. The project partners were careful to ensure that the collections put forward would be varied and interesting enough to keep everyone engrossed and they have kept true to their word with some absolute corkers!

Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives started the ball rolling with two wonderful collections for transcription. The first was the Edward Thomas Literary Archive, just under 500 letters written by Thomas to his friends and family. Poet, critic, and biographer, Thomas wrote all his poetry over a brief three-year span, 1914-17. During the second year of WWI, he enlisted and was killed two years later in the Battle of Arras. Even though everyone struggled with Thomas's handwriting, they smashed through this collection within a few months, many finding the content powerful and moving.

The next collection was nine war time diaries written by Priscilla Scott-Ellis, daughter of the 8th Lord Howard de Walden. Brought up in the luxury of Belgrave Square, London, and Chirk Castle, in Wexham, what makes Priscilla exceptional is that she volunteered as a nurse during both the Spanish Civil War and WWII. Moreover, whereas her Spanish Civil War diaries were posthumously published in 1995 as The Chances of Death: Diary of the Spanish Civil War, her WWII diaries have never been published, making this a very important transcription project. Fortunately for everyone, Priscilla's handwriting is much easier to read, and they've pretty much finished this collection also. As well as transcribing these letters and diaries, the volunteers have also been tagging names and places, to make searching these documents much easier in the future.

Glamorgan Archives offered up our first photographic collection with the Cardiff Dockland Community Collection. These portraits of individuals and groups including women and children, from the Cardiff dockland community, were taken between 1900-1920. This area was commonly known as "Tiger Bay" and became one of the UK's first multicultural communities with people from over 50 countries, including Somalia, Yemen, and Greece, settled here by the outbreak of the First World War, working in the docks and allied industries.

Gwent Archives added the Newport Rugby & Athletic Club photographic archive charting the history of the club and containing images of groups, teams, committee members, sports days and some wonderfully random early 1900s images of children playing in snow, men in plus fours skating on frozen lakes and scantily clad lads diving into dangerous canal locks!

For these collections, the volunteers are tagging anything they see in the photograph and describing the image.

The next collection about to be added from Gwent Archives is a series of "Letters Books" related to the Poor Law Act of 1834. All correspondence carried out between the local Poor Law offices and the main Head Office in London was re-written into letters books as legal copy. Gwent Archives have chosen the letters books from the Abergavenny Board of Guardians for this project. This transcription task will be a challenge indeed as the pages on which the letters were re-written are very thin and there is a lot of bleed-through. Fortunately, only a synopsis of these letters is required as opposed to a full transcription, so volunteers need only read through and type up a summary.

One of my core jobs as Project Officer has been to promote the project and this has been achieved using several methods. We have an active Twitter [X] account to promote progress, highlight these great collections and foster support for other archive, library, museums, and heritage accounts. We had live listings on websites such as Adult Learners Week Wales , Black History Wales and World Digital Preservation Day. We have been featured in numerous publications including the January 2023 issue of Who Do You Think You Are Magazine and the March/April 2023 issue of Archive & Records Association Members Magazine [ARC]. We have been supported by the Archives and Records Council Wales, with invitations to speak at their Annual Forums and to contribute a series of blog posts to their website reporting on our progress [enter CrowdCymru in the home page search box to find them]. We recorded a podcast for The Archives & Records Association, who have recorded lots of fascinating interviews from people who work with archives for their Outside the Box series. As part of Volunteer Week, they recorded some volunteer specials and Crowd Cymru was one of them, you can listen to the episode here.

We've also ventured out into the community, both in person and online, to spread the word and encourage people to sign up. We presented to organisations including Digital Communities Wales, U3A Wales, Newport City Council [Community & Regeneration and Community Arts], Aberystwyth University [Online and Distance Learning, Information and Library Studies and Lifelong Learning Genealogy Groups] and Glamorgan Archives and Gwent Archives as part of their series of online public talks.

Interestingly it was the presentation to Gwent Archives that sparked a very productive tangent as the talk was attended by the Dementia Voice Lead on Amgueddfa Cymru's Museums Inspiring Memories Project. This three-year project in partnership with Alzheimer's Society Cymru and funded by the National Lottery Community Fund began back in April 2022. The projects aim is to work with people living with dementia, unpaid carers, carer sector staff, heritage sector colleagues, and related communities and organisations, to deliver practical ways to engage with and improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia, through access to museum resources and sites. After the talk, the Lead made contact and a dialogue was initiated around the benefits of transcribing and tagging as memory work for those with conditions like dementia. We were then invited to attend their Dementia Awareness Day, run in conjunction with Dementia Action Week at St Fagans Museum of National History in May 2023. Our meet and greet table was in amongst a host of other organisations including Alzheimers Society Cymru, Ty Hapus, Welsh Ambulance Services, Dewis Cymru and Age Cymru. This extremely productive day was spent learning about the work these organisations do while also interacting with individuals and groups brought from care homes by showing them the photographs on our table and asking questions. One very elderly lady with bad eyesight was understandably dismissive when shown one of the Cardiff Dockland Community photographs but once her carer had explained the issue, the image was described in detail to her. She immediately brightened and began to talk about how she remembered the immigrants who arrived in Tiger Bay and how they were seen as different in how they dressed and spoke. She remembered animosity and suspicion but more so that her mother went out of her way to be friendly and kind, telling her to do the same in the school playground. This moving interaction really was a highlight of the day.

This train of thought then lead to contact with Cardiff Council Wellbeing Support Service, established to boost the health and wellbeing of the community and ease some of the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their aim is to provide opportunities to help those experiencing mental health challenges, social isolation and loneliness and anxiety around leaving the home as this number has risen significantly since the pandemic. This incredibly supportive and accommodating team have embraced Crowd Cymru as an opportunity for socialising and learning for their clients. This has led to a series of in person workshops in hubs and libraries around Cardiff which have been great fun.

Our project ends on November 30 and thoughts of review reports and output tables now need to be considered. But, on a more personal level, one of the most enjoyable aspects of this project for me has been recruiting and getting to know our wonderfully diverse group of volunteers. I email them every week, provide online training sessions, and manage a closed Facebook Group for us all to chat to one-another. Their friendliness, experience, and enthusiasm to support the work of archives services has been a joy and I know that the next three months are going to fly by, so I intend to make the most of every minute.

I have also been overwhelmed by the sheer generosity of this heritage archives environment and sector. This project has been met, at every request, with offers of help and support and a true sense of working together supporting individual endeavours for the greater good of the whole sector. How wonderful to be part of such a great community.

Jennifer Evans

Digital Volunteering Project Officer

Twitter: @CrowdCymru

Phone: 01495 742450

Email: jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

This blog post titled #CrowdCymru by Jennifer Evans is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

In this guest post, Jennifer Evans, Digital Volunteering Project Officer for #CrowdCymru gives an overview of this crowdsourced digital archive project.
Hello there, I'm Project Officer on a very exciting digital archives volunteer project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and run jointly by Gwent Archives, Glamorgan Archives and Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives.

The idea for the project was born from a need to demonstrate that these project partners were endeavouring to taking a swift, proactive, and collaborative approach to modernise their services to meet the ambitious roadmap of the Welsh Government's Digital Strategy of Wales which aims to "improve the lives of everyone through collaboration, innovation and better public services". Moreover, the pandemic has forced archive services to revisit their purpose, reach and value, and adapt their services within a broader local, national, and international context. This project will equip more people with the digital skills they now need to remain well-connected across their communities and to develop these skills to take full advantage in seeking opportunities in the workplace and for wellbeing. We also aim to transform opportunities for archives services to develop new models for remote volunteering without the need to travel that support the Welsh Government's ambition to reduce our carbon footprint.

All the work our volunteers do is accessed via a crowdsourcing platform established by those very clever people at the National Library Wales. This fully bilingual online platform enables remote volunteers to tag and transcribe the digital heritage collections held within these repositories.

Archive services across Wales hold millions of irreplaceable records, but many are only minimally catalogued and therefore difficult to identify and find. This project is harnessing the knowledge of individuals in communities across Wales and beyond to enrich our collective heritage for the benefit of current and future generations - locally, nationally, and globally.

Our volunteer numbers currently stand at ninety and although the majority come from Wales, we also have sign-ups from USA, Canada, Australia & South Korea! The work they have so valiantly been ploughing through began with transcribing handwritten documents and now they've moved on to tagging and describing photographs. The project partners were careful to ensure that the collections put forward would be varied and interesting enough to keep everyone engrossed and they have kept true to their word with some absolute corkers!

Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives started the ball rolling with two wonderful collections for transcription. The first was the Edward Thomas Literary Archive, just under 500 letters written by Thomas to his friends and family. Poet, critic, and biographer, Thomas wrote all his poetry over a brief three-year span, 1914-17. During the second year of WWI, he enlisted and was killed two years later in the Battle of Arras. Even though everyone struggled with Thomas's handwriting, they smashed through this collection within a few months, many finding the content powerful and moving.

The next collection was nine war time diaries written by Priscilla Scott-Ellis, daughter of the 8th Lord Howard de Walden. Brought up in the luxury of Belgrave Square, London, and Chirk Castle, in Wexham, what makes Priscilla exceptional is that she volunteered as a nurse during both the Spanish Civil War and WWII. Moreover, whereas her Spanish Civil War diaries were posthumously published in 1995 as The Chances of Death: Diary of the Spanish Civil War, her WWII diaries have never been published, making this a very important transcription project. Fortunately for everyone, Priscilla's handwriting is much easier to read, and they've pretty much finished this collection also. As well as transcribing these letters and diaries, the volunteers have also been tagging names and places, to make searching these documents much easier in the future.

Glamorgan Archives offered up our first photographic collection with the Cardiff Dockland Community Collection. These portraits of individuals and groups including women and children, from the Cardiff dockland community, were taken between 1900-1920. This area was commonly known as "Tiger Bay" and became one of the UK's first multicultural communities with people from over 50 countries, including Somalia, Yemen, and Greece, settled here by the outbreak of the First World War, working in the docks and allied industries.

Gwent Archives added the Newport Rugby & Athletic Club photographic archive charting the history of the club and containing images of groups, teams, committee members, sports days and some wonderfully random early 1900s images of children playing in snow, men in plus fours skating on frozen lakes and scantily clad lads diving into dangerous canal locks!

For these collections, the volunteers are tagging anything they see in the photograph and describing the image.

The next collection about to be added from Gwent Archives is a series of "Letters Books" related to the Poor Law Act of 1834. All correspondence carried out between the local Poor Law offices and the main Head Office in London was re-written into letters books as legal copy. Gwent Archives have chosen the letters books from the Abergavenny Board of Guardians for this project. This transcription task will be a challenge indeed as the pages on which the letters were re-written are very thin and there is a lot of bleed-through. Fortunately, only a synopsis of these letters is required as opposed to a full transcription, so volunteers need only read through and type up a summary.

One of my core jobs as Project Officer has been to promote the project and this has been achieved using several methods. We have an active Twitter [X] account to promote progress, highlight these great collections and foster support for other archive, library, museums, and heritage accounts. We had live listings on websites such as Adult Learners Week Wales , Black History Wales and World Digital Preservation Day. We have been featured in numerous publications including the January 2023 issue of Who Do You Think You Are Magazine and the March/April 2023 issue of Archive & Records Association Members Magazine [ARC]. We have been supported by the Archives and Records Council Wales, with invitations to speak at their Annual Forums and to contribute a series of blog posts to their website reporting on our progress [enter CrowdCymru in the home page search box to find them]. We recorded a podcast for The Archives & Records Association, who have recorded lots of fascinating interviews from people who work with archives for their Outside the Box series. As part of Volunteer Week, they recorded some volunteer specials and Crowd Cymru was one of them, you can listen to the episode here.

We've also ventured out into the community, both in person and online, to spread the word and encourage people to sign up. We presented to organisations including Digital Communities Wales, U3A Wales, Newport City Council [Community & Regeneration and Community Arts], Aberystwyth University [Online and Distance Learning, Information and Library Studies and Lifelong Learning Genealogy Groups] and Glamorgan Archives and Gwent Archives as part of their series of online public talks.

Interestingly it was the presentation to Gwent Archives that sparked a very productive tangent as the talk was attended by the Dementia Voice Lead on Amgueddfa Cymru's Museums Inspiring Memories Project. This three-year project in partnership with Alzheimer's Society Cymru and funded by the National Lottery Community Fund began back in April 2022. The projects aim is to work with people living with dementia, unpaid carers, carer sector staff, heritage sector colleagues, and related communities and organisations, to deliver practical ways to engage with and improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia, through access to museum resources and sites. After the talk, the Lead made contact and a dialogue was initiated around the benefits of transcribing and tagging as memory work for those with conditions like dementia. We were then invited to attend their Dementia Awareness Day, run in conjunction with Dementia Action Week at St Fagans Museum of National History in May 2023. Our meet and greet table was in amongst a host of other organisations including Alzheimers Society Cymru, Ty Hapus, Welsh Ambulance Services, Dewis Cymru and Age Cymru. This extremely productive day was spent learning about the work these organisations do while also interacting with individuals and groups brought from care homes by showing them the photographs on our table and asking questions. One very elderly lady with bad eyesight was understandably dismissive when shown one of the Cardiff Dockland Community photographs but once her carer had explained the issue, the image was described in detail to her. She immediately brightened and began to talk about how she remembered the immigrants who arrived in Tiger Bay and how they were seen as different in how they dressed and spoke. She remembered animosity and suspicion but more so that her mother went out of her way to be friendly and kind, telling her to do the same in the school playground. This moving interaction really was a highlight of the day.

This train of thought then lead to contact with Cardiff Council Wellbeing Support Service, established to boost the health and wellbeing of the community and ease some of the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their aim is to provide opportunities to help those experiencing mental health challenges, social isolation and loneliness and anxiety around leaving the home as this number has risen significantly since the pandemic. This incredibly supportive and accommodating team have embraced Crowd Cymru as an opportunity for socialising and learning for their clients. This has led to a series of in person workshops in hubs and libraries around Cardiff which have been great fun.

Our project ends on November 30 and thoughts of review reports and output tables now need to be considered. But, on a more personal level, one of the most enjoyable aspects of this project for me has been recruiting and getting to know our wonderfully diverse group of volunteers. I email them every week, provide online training sessions, and manage a closed Facebook Group for us all to chat to one-another. Their friendliness, experience, and enthusiasm to support the work of archives services has been a joy and I know that the next three months are going to fly by, so I intend to make the most of every minute.

I have also been overwhelmed by the sheer generosity of this heritage archives environment and sector. This project has been met, at every request, with offers of help and support and a true sense of working together supporting individual endeavours for the greater good of the whole sector. How wonderful to be part of such a great community.

Jennifer Evans

Digital Volunteering Project Officer

Twitter: @CrowdCymru

Phone: 01495 742450

Email: jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

This blog post titled #CrowdCymru by Jennifer Evans is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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In this guest post, Jennifer Evans, Digital Volunteering Project Officer for #CrowdCymru gives an overview of this crowdsourced digital archive project. Hello there, I'm Project Officer on a very exciting digital archives volunteer project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and run joi

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Helo bawb, Jen sydd yma, Swyddog Prosiect Gwirfoddoli Digidol ar gyfer CrowdCymru. Dyma ddiweddariad ar gynnydd ein prosiect gwirfoddoli gydag archifau digidol. Ariennir y prosiect gan Gronfa Dreft…

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Casgliad y Werin Cymru Cylchlythyr Mis Rhagfyr

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Casgliad y Werin Cymru Cylchlythyr Mis Rhagfyr

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🎄Cylchlythyr mis Rhagfyr / December Newsletter

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Beth am gymryd cam yn ôl i'r gorffennol a hel atgofion am y Nadoligau a fu trwy bori casgliad Nadolig yr Archif Cof. O bartïon Nadolig a dramâu Nadolig yr ysgol i ganu carolau a dadlapio anrhegion, mae hyd yn oed ffotograff o lowyr yng Nglofa'r Bers, Rhostyllen, Wrecsam yn canu carolau Nadolig o dan y ddaear ym 1950.

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Tudalennau 35-38

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https://edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/edward-thomas-fellowship-study-days/

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Help us to transcribe the Edward Thomas letters as part of the Crowd Cymru project.

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Fy nigwyddiad cyntaf! Bwrdd cyfarfod yn nigwyddiad Archifau Morgannwg [30 Tachwedd 2022].

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Gweithdy bywiog Torf Cymru yn Llyfrgell yr Eglwys Newydd, Caerdydd, de Cymru, ar y cyd â Gwasanaeth Cymorth Lles Caerdydd [14 Medi 2023].

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Dyddiaduron cyfnod rhyfel Priscilla Scott-Ellis

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Dyddiaduron cyfnod rhyfel Priscilla Scott-Ellis

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Dyddiaduron rhyfel Priscilla Scott-Ellis, 1937-41 - Llyfrgelloedd Prifysgol Caerdydd a'r GIG Cymru

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Papurau’r bardd rhyfel Edward Thomas, gan gynnwys gohebiaeth, barddoniaeth, llyfrau nodiadau a lluniau.

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Ffotograffau cymuned dociau Caerdydd - Archifau Morgannwg

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© Archifau Morgannwg - Gwefan wedi'i gynllunio gan Tȋm y We Cyngor Caerdydd

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Helo pawb, Jen sydd yma, Swyddog Prosiect Gwirfoddoli Digidol ar gyfer #CrowdCymru. Dyma ddiweddariad ar gynnydd ein prosiect gwirfoddoli gydag archifau digidol. Ariennir y prosiect gan Gronfa Dref…

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Wel, mae hi wedi bod yn gyfnod prysur iawn ers i mi ysgrifennu'r blog rhagarweiniol nôl ym mis Awst! [gallwch ei ddarllen yma] Yn gyntaf, rydw i wedi bod yn gweithio'n galed i hybu'r prosiect. Erbyn nawr, mae gwybodaeth amdani ar wefannau Wythnos Addysg Oedolion Cymru, Mis Hanes Pobl Dduon Cymru a'r Digital Preservation Coalition. Rydym hefyd wedi cael sylw ar-lein trwy Newyddion S4C, a bydd gwybodaeth am y prosiect yn ymddangos yn rhifyn mis Ionawr o gylchgrawn Who Do You Think You Are?

Ar y 7fed o Dachwedd, rhoddais gyflwyniad yn Fforwm Cyngor Archifau a Chofnodion Cymru a chefais adborth cadarnhaol iawn, a thipyn o ddiddordeb yn #CrowdCymru. Treuliais i'r diwrnod cyfan yno i wrando ar y cyflwyniadau eraill, gan gynnwys rhai hynod o ysbrydoledig gan Gomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru, Amgueddfa Ceredigion, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, ac Archifau Gogledd Ddwyrain Cymru.

Byddaf yn rhoi cyflwyniadau ar-lein i Gymunedau Digidol Cymru, myfyrwyr y cyrsiau Rheoli Archifau a Chofnodion ac Achyddiaeth Prifysgol Aberystwyth, a chyfres sgyrsiau ar-lein Archifau Gwent. Byddaf hefyd yn teithio tipyn yn ystod y dyddiau nesaf ar gyfer ymgyrch Archwilio Eich Archif; mi wnes i fynychu digwyddiad yn Archifau Morgannwg ar 30ain o Dachwedd, a byddaf yn Archifdy Sir Gaerfyrddin ar 6ed o Ragfyr. Efallai y gwelaf i chi yno!

Erbyn nawr mae gyda ni gyfrif Twitter, sef @CrowdCymru, i hyrwyddo ein gweithgareddau, amlygu casgliadau, ac i roi cefnogaeth ar gyfer archifau, llyfrgelloedd, amgueddfeydd, a chyfrifon treftadaeth eraill. Hyd yn hyn, rydym wedi trydar am Fis Hanes Pobl Dduon, Diwrnod Iechyd Meddwl y Byd, Wythnos Addysg Oedolion, Diwrnod Cadwraeth Ddigidol y Byd, Diwrnod y Cofio, a diwrnod #ILoveToWrite. Mi roedd un postiad gyda delwedd o Gasgliad Cymunedol Ardal Doc Caerdydd yn boblogaidd iawn. Roedd yn bortread o ŵr ifanc o'r enw Samuel Sawyer a oedd wedi'i gwisgo'n arbennig o smart, a chafodd y llun ei hoffi gan 169 o bobl, ei ail-drydar 95 weithiau, a hynny wedi creu 116K o argraffiadau.

Mae partneriaid y prosiect wedi penderfynu lansio'r platfform digidol ym mis Ionawr 2023. Mae'r rhan fwyaf o bobl yn brysur amser hyn o'r flwyddyn, ac mae'n debygol byddent yn fwy awyddus i ddechrau rhywbeth newydd ar ddechrau'r Flwyddyn Newydd, yn hytrach nag ar ddiwedd yr un yma.

Felly, pa gasgliadau digidol fydd ein gwirfoddolwyr yn gweithio arnynt ym mis Ionawr? Bydd hyn rhywfaint o wledd symudol; Wrth i'r prosiect fynd yn ei flaen, gall rhai casgliadau ymddangos am ychydig ac yna cael eu dileu os nad oes diddordeb ynddynt, a'i ddisodli gyda rhywbeth newydd.

Daw'r tri chasgliad cyntaf i weithio arnynt fydd o Archifau a Chasgliadau Arbennig Prifysgol Caerdydd. Yn gyntaf, Archif Edward Thomas, un o'r beirdd rhyfel llai adnabyddus a laddwyd wrth ymladd ar ddiwrnod cyntaf Brwydr y Somme, a sonnir amdano yn y blog cyntaf. Mae'r ail gasgliad yn cynnwys dyddiaduron amser rhyfel yr Anrhydeddus Priscilla Scott-Ellis (1916-1983); merch o'r 8fed Arglwydd Howard de Walden. Magwyd Priscilla yn Sgwâr Belgrave ac yng Nghastell y Waun. Yn ystod Rhyfel Cartref Sbaen, cefnogodd Fyddin y Cenedlaetholwyr a oedd yn ymladd llywodraeth y Ffrynt Poblogaidd fel nyrs wirfoddol.

Mae ei dyddiaduron yn adrodd ar y cyfnod o 1934 hyd at 1941 ac mae'r cofnodion hefyd yn ymdrin â byw yn Llundain yn ystod y Blitz. Bydd y ddau gasgliad ar gael i'w drawsgrifio, tra bydd y trydydd casgliad ar gael i'w tagio a'i adnabod. Hwn yw Archif Sefydliadol Prifysgol Caerdydd, sef cof gweledol o fyfyrwyr a staff gyda chofnodion sy'n mynd mor bell yn ôl ag 1883, ac sy'n gynnwys bron i 1000 o ffotograffau yn siartio bywyd prifysgol. Mae'r casgliad yn cynnwys adrannau ar staff, myfyrwyr, ysgolion academaidd, a'r tu mewn a'r tu allan i adeiladau.

Rwy'n edrych ymlaen yn fawr at gychwyn gyda'r gwirfoddolwyr yn y Flwyddyn Newydd, byddaf yn anfon ffurflenni cofrestru yn gyntaf ac yna trefnu rhai sesiynau hyfforddiant ar gyfer grwpiau bach, lle gallaf dangos y platfform ac egluro tasgau gam wrth gam.

Yn y cyfamser, dymunaf dymor Nadolig hapus iawn i chi!

Jennifer Evans
Swyddog Prosiect Gwirfoddoli Digidol
Trydar: @CrowdCymru
Ffôn: 01495 742450
E-bost: jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

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Wel, mae hi wedi bod yn gyfnod prysur iawn ers i mi ysgrifennu'r blog rhagarweiniol nôl ym mis Awst! [gallwch ei ddarllen yma] Yn gyntaf, rydw i wedi bod yn gweithio'n galed i hybu'r prosiect. Erbyn nawr, mae gwybodaeth amdani ar wefannau Wythnos Addysg Oedolion Cymru, Mis Hanes Pobl Dduon Cymru a'r Digital Preservation Coalition....

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Bydd modd cyrraedd y prosiect drwy'r platfform torfoli a sefydlwyd gan staff y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol, a byddant wrth law i helpu gydag unrhyw faterion technegol a chyngor. Bydd y prosiect hwn o ddiddordeb mawr i'r rheiny sydd eisiau gwirfoddoli gydag archifau De Cymru ond sydd methu teithio i unrhyw un o'r safleoedd. Mae'r prosiect hwn yn gwbl ddigidol, felly does dim ots ble rydych chi cyn belled â bod gennych chi fynediad ar-lein!

Mae gan wasanaethau archifau ledled Cymru filiynau o gofnodion anadferadwy, ond mae llawer ohonynt heb ei gatalogio'n llawn felly mae'n anodd eu hadnabod a'u canfod. Bydd y project yn creu llwyfan ar-lein dwyieithog er mwyn i wirfoddolwyr sydd yn gweithio o bell i dagio, anodi, a disgrifio'r casgliadau treftadaeth ddigidol a gedwir o fewn yr ystorfeydd eithriadol hyn. Bydd y project hwn yn harneisio gwybodaeth unigolion mewn cymunedau ar draws Cymru a thu hwnt i gyfoethogi ein treftadaeth er budd cenedlaethau presennol a'r dyfodol - yn lleol, yn genedlaethol, ac yn fyd-eang.

Bwriad partneriaid y prosiect yw sicrhau bod amrywiaeth gyffrous iawn o gasgliadau ar gael i wirfoddolwyr eu harchwilio a gweithio arnynt. Mae hyn yn gynnwys Ffotograffau Cymuned Dociau Caerdydd yn gasgliadau Archifau Morgannwg. Portreadau yw'r rhain o unigolion a grwpiau o gymuned dociau Caerdydd, a gymerwyd rhwng 1900-1920. Cafodd llawer ohonyn nhw eu cymryd gan Fred Petersen o Bute Street, gŵr o Ddenmarc (Copenhagen) a ymsefydlodd yng Nghaerdydd ar ddiwedd y 19eg ganrif. Bydd casgliad Archif Edward Thomas, archif bersonol anarferol o eang a manwl o un o'r beirdd rhyfel llai adnabyddus, hefyd yn rhan o'r prosiect yma. Mae'r casgliad hwn yn rhan o Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Caerdydd, ac mae'n cynnwys gohebiaeth bersonol, cerddi llawysgrifol a theipysgrif wreiddiol, dogfennau swyddogol, a ffotograffau.

Byddaf yn rhannu mwy o newyddion wrth i'r prosiect fynd yn ei flaen, ond os yw'r synopsis byr hwn wedi denu eich diddordeb, cysylltwch â mi.

Yn y cyfamser, dyma ychydig mwy amdanaf fi fy hun. Ar hyn o bryd rydw i ar secondiad blynyddol o Amgueddfa Cymru lle rydw i'n gweithio fel Llyfrgellydd Cynorthwyol. Dechreuais weithio yn y Llyfrgell yn 2001 dros gyfnod mamolaeth a syrthiais mewn cariad â'r gwaith, a'r lleoliad. Mae'r Brif Lyfrgell i fyny y tu mewn i'r gromen, ac mae'n edrych yn union fel y gwnaeth pan osodwyd yn gyntaf dros 100 mlynedd yn ôl; o'r goleuadau wal wydr hyfryd, i'r silffoedd haearn gwreiddiol o'r 1920au!

Mae rheoli a chadw archif y Llyfrgell wedi rhoi gwerthfawrogiad i mi o bwysigrwydd archif unrhyw sefydliad. Dyma'r cronicl dogfennol ei sefydliad a'i esblygiad, sy'n dangos y llwybr sy'n arwain yn ôl at y gobeithion a'r athroniaethau gwreiddiol. Yn ffodus, mewn rhai achosion mae cynnwys yr ohebiaeth a'r munudau ysgrifenedig llaw ar gael; cofnod o'r hyn sy'n sbarduno'r camau bach sydd efallai ar y pryd ddim yn ymddangos yn arwyddocaol, ond sydd yn profi'n bwysig iawn yn y cynllun mawreddog.

Os ydych chi'n teimlo'r un ffordd am archifau, dyma'r prosiect perffaith i chi, a gyda'n gilydd byddwn yn cael cyfle i gael mynediad at gasgliadau anhygoel! Pwy a ŵyr pa straeon y byddwn ni'n eu darganfod? Pa ddirgelion y gallwn ni eu datgladdu? Felly, os oes gennych fynediad ar-lein, ychydig o amser ar eich dwylo a hoffech fod yn rhan o'r prosiect hwn, cysylltwch â mi.

Yn ystod fy amser rhydd rwy'n artist sydd ag angerdd am lên gwerin a phob peth Edwardaidd, yn enwedig ffotograffiaeth Autochrome cynnar. Rwyf hefyd yn perchennog i gath braidd yn ddrwg ei thymer o'r enw Bertie.

Jennifer Evans
Digital Volunteering Project Officer / Swyddog Prosiect Gwirfoddoli Digidol
Ebost / Ebost: jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

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Shwmae! Fy enw i yw Jen ac rwyf newydd ddechrau gweithio ar brosiect cyffrous iawn gyda gwirfoddolwr ac archifau digidol sydd wedi ei ariannu gan Gronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol. Bydd y prosiect yn cael ei redeg ar y cyd gan Archifau Gwent, Archifau Morgannwg a Chasgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau Prifysgol Caerdydd.

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Crowd Cymru Digital Archives Volunteering Project

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#CrowdCymru is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and run jointly by Gwent Archives, Glamorgan Archives and Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives.

We are a PILOT digital archives volunteer project, everything our volunteers do is online via a bilingual, digital, crowd sourcing platform.

This platform, established by the National Library Wales, allows remote volunteers, anywhere in the world [as long as they have online access/device] to work on the digital collections that the project partners are providing.

Archive services across Wales hold millions of irreplaceable records, but many are only minimally catalogued and therefore difficult to identify and find.

This project will harness the knowledge of individuals in communities across Wales and beyond to enrich our collective heritage for the benefit of current and future generations - locally, nationally, and globally.

If you'd like to take part please contact:

Email: jennifer.evans@gwentarchives.gov.uk

Tel: 01495 742450

Website: https://www.gwentarchives.gov.uk/en/partnership-and-projects/crowdcymru/

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CrowdCymru is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and run jointly by Gwent Archives, Glamorgan Archives and Cardiff University Special Collections &amp; Archives. We are a PILOT digital archives volunteer project, everything our volunteers do is online via a bilingual, digital, crowd sourcing platform.

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Digwyddiad Ymwybyddiaeth Dementia yn Amgueddfa Hanes Sain Ffagan [May 2023]