Wales

MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES

Wales

Archives	BDM	Cemetery	Census	Church
Databases	Ethnic	Genuki	History	Immigration
Maps	Military	PRO	Wills	Miscellaneous
GenWeb

Archives
- UK National Archives
  Victorian prisoners, wills, WWI campaign medals, WW2 Seamens medals, Victoria Cross Register, French Muster Rolls from the battle of Trafalgar, Hospital records, Migration records and much more
  - Manorial Documents Register
- Historical Manuscripts Commission
- Using Written Archives to Discover the History of Your House
- Welsh Record Offices and Archives on the Web
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records
- General Register Office (GRO)- Online Certificate ordering service
- Civil Registration in Wales - Genuki Website
  - Genuki - Civil Registration in England and Wales
- England and Wales Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificate Information - Barbara Dixon website
- Family Research Link
  Enables you to search and browse the birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales, from 1837. Minimum charge will be 5 GBP, for 50 page views.
- FreeBMD Project
  FreeBMD stands for Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths. The FreeBMD Project's objective is to provide free Internet access to the Civil Registration index information for England and Wales
- National Burial Index for England and Wales
  The first edition of the NBI includes well over 5.4 million records from more than 4,400 parish, non-conformist and cemetery burial registers. These entries come from different types of sources, for example, parish registers, bishops' transcripts, earlier transcripts or printed registers. The NBI for England and Wales does not contain monumental inscription records. The aim of the National Burial Index (NBI) for England and Wales is to assist family historians find burial records and in so doing will complement the International Genealogical Index (IGI) which, of course, is mainly a finding aid to baptisms and marriages. The two CD's can be ordered and the viewer can be downloaded from this site.
- North Wales BMD Online
  Births 474,400, marriages 64,750, deaths 106,352
- Ordering Birth Registration Certificates from England and Wales-Mark Howells website
  Using the LDS Family History Center's Resources
- The St. Catherine's Marriage Index
  Records of civil registration of post-1837 births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales that are held by the General Register Office (St Catherine's House)
- Vicar-General Marriage License Index
  The Vicar-General Marriage License Index is a genealogical finding aid comprising a surname index which lists over 356,000 people who were issued with marriage licences by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1694 and 1850
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Cemetery Records
- Penrhys Cemetery Index - David Jones
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Census Records
- Ancestry.com (free at all LDS Family History Centers)
- Ancient Parish Census
- 1841 English/Wales Census ($)
- 1881 British Census-FamilySearch.org
- UK Census records 1841-1901
- 1901 Census Records England and Wales
- 1901 Welsh and English Census
- Dolgellau History
  Census Returns, Bishop's Transcripts and Trade Directories.
- Finding an address in the transcription of the 1881 census of England and Wales
- Genuki - Census of England and Wales
- Tom Nunamaker's Census Age Calculator
- UK Census Online
  Project to transcribe the 1891 England & Wales census for online viewing
- Victorian Census Project - Free Data Sets - Census Databases
  Four sub-sets of variables relating to the 1831 and 1861 censuses, and the Scottish Registrar General's Annual Report for 1861, can be downloaded from this web site
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Church Records
- English Parish Registers - Tutorial
- FreeREG
  The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers in the UK.
  - Search the FreeReg Database
- Llangar (Merionethshire) Parish Records
- Parish Register Copies in the Library of the Society of Genealogists as of December 1994 - Wales
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Databases and Surname Lists
- Ancestry.com United Kingdom and Ireland Databases
  Over 50 million name database in over 100 databases of baptism, birth, marriage, death, probate and parish records dating from 1538-1835 mainly for England, Scotland also Wales and Ireland.
- Cardiff Records (Name Indexes)
- Carmarthenshire Family History Society
  Census, Baptisms, Burials, Marriages, Parish Records, Wills
- English Origins
  Database of over 1 million names. Includes Marriage Licence Allegations Index, Bank of England Will Extracts Index, Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index, London Apprenticeship Abstracts, London Consistory Court Depositions Index
- Genuki - Surname Lists
- Index to "Paupers in Workhouses 1861
  10% sample of returns from each Workhouse in England and Wales
- Migrants from the West Country who joined the South Wales Police (1862-1895) Lists of officials who served in the departments of central government since the Restoration.
- Welsh Ancestry List
- The Steam Engine Makers Database
- 192.com Electoral Poll
  Search over 45 million people listed on the 1999 Voters Register
- Online Welsh Names Research Directory
- Welch Mormon History
  - Immigrants
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Ethnic Records and Religions
- Catholic Church in England and Wales
- Fasti Ecclesiae Anclicanae 1300-1541
  Biographical lists of the higher clergy (that is, bishops, archdeacons and cathedral clergy) of England and Wales from 1066 to 1857
- Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae,1541-1857
- Genuki - Kings, Queens, Archbishops & Bishops of the UK
- The Church in Wales / Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru
  - Parishes in the Church in Wales
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Genuki
- Genuki Wales Index
History of Wales
- Coalmining History Resource Center
- Ranks, Professions, Occupations & Trades
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Immigration, Emigration, Ships and Passenger Lists
- Early emigration from Wales
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Maps, Gazateers and Directors
Military
- 17th Battalion The Welsh Regiment - The First Glamorgan Bantams - 1916-1918
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Public Record Office
- Public Record Office
- Genuki - English and Welsh Register Offices
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Wills
- Commissary Court of London Will Abstracts Volume 26 (1629-1634)
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Miscellaneous Resources
- National Library of Wales
- Online Newspapers in Wales
- UK Genealogy
  Archives, Libraries, Societies, Mailing Lists, County Research, Surname Lists
- Wales - Cyndi's List
- Welsh Family History Archive
  Glossary of Welsh place names, FAQ's, topographical dictionary, Welsh Familly Histories
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