FAMILY HISTORY LEARNING MOMENT
Michael's main sources for this post:
Sunny Morton in a FamilySearch blog suggested sources
The Family History Guide has a lot on finding Welsh sources.
In the blog, “Discover Your Welsh Ancestry in These 3 Key Sources,” Sunny
suggests starting your Welsh family research with what she calls the
three C’s: censuses, civil registrations, and church records. Censuses
of genealogical help began in 1841 and were taken every 10 years
thereafter. The 1921 census will be released in 2021. Civil
registrations (births, marriages, and deaths) began in Wales in July
1837. Sunny explains the two-step process to obtain these certificates.
Church records, some beginning in 1538, consist of baptism, marriage,
and burial records. However, these three record types are just the
beginning.
In ‘The Family History Guide,” you can learn about these and other Wales research resources.
This site does not contain genealogical records but provides links
which take you directly to a given record collection or other links on
the sites of FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, or Findmypast.
Information on Wales research resources is provided for a number of
records and sources:
- Archives and Libraries
- Census Records
- Cemetery Records
- Emigration and Immigration
- Land, Property, Probate
- Military Records
- Maps and Gazetteers
- Newspapers
- Websites
- Search Records
Whereever you begin, enjoy your journey in finding out about your Welsh ancestors and their lives and stories!
