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In January, the Archives Network Wales project started to create a web-searchable index to archive sources in Wales. It is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the project partners, the members of Archives Council Wales. The site forms a strand of the National Archives Network; the project involves the creation of fonds/collection level descriptions for the holdings of the partners, supplementing existing descriptions which will be transferred into the system. Full details of the project can be found on the ANW website, which has now gone live. www.archivesnetworkwales.info (English version) www.rhwydwaitharchifaucymru.info (Welsh version) Features of the website available now: Project background, scope and programme List of project partners and links to their websites Page of links to other archive sources on the web Feedback page The searchable interface will go live in September 2003 and will be continually updated until December 2005. The team has just completed work on the collections of the National Library of Wales, and has moved on to those for the Anglesey County Record Office. The records for each project partner will be posted on the website as they are finished. Features going live in September 2003 Search interface Quick search, Name and Placename searching Data: 400 records covering Family and Estates collections held by all project partners; 800 records covering the National Library of Wales collections; 1500 records covering the collections of the University of Wales Aberystwyth, University of Wales Bangor, University of Wales Lampeter and University of Wales Swansea. Martin Locock Project Manager, Archives Network Wales [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] 01970 632800 x 885 or 01970 632546 www.archivesnetworkwales.info www.rhwydwaitharchifaucymru.info National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU This message may not represent the policy of the National Library of Wales. Archives Network Wales is project for Archives Council Wales supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.