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• Anglesey (7)
• Breconshire (7)
• Caernarfonshire (Caernarvonshire) (7)
• Cardiganshire (8)
• Carmarthenshire (7)
• Denbighshire (8)
• Flintshire (6)
• Glamorgan (10)
• Merionethshire (8)
• Monmouthshire (19)
• Montgomeryshire (6)
• Pembrokeshire (6)
• Radnorshire (6)
• Adoption Records
  
  • Birth, marriage and death certificates, adoption records  After 1837     (Source: DirectGov)     ($)
• Archives
  
  • A2A: Access to Archives      (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))
  • Archives Network Wales: Archives in Wales [English version] 
  • The National Archive  Brings together the Public Record Office, Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information and Her Majesty's Stationery Office     (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))
  • UK Archives and Libraries: National Collections, Listings and Guides, Specialist Collections, Miscellaneous      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Bibliography
  
  • Gibson Guides: Location Guides for Family and Local Historians      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Birth Records
  
  • Ancestry England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 - Free index      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)
  • Birth, marriage and death certificates, adoption records  After 1837     (Source: DirectGov)     ($)
  • Births - England & Wales 1837-1983, and 1984-2006      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Bookstores and Publishers
  
  • Phillimore, publisher and bookseller of British local and family history 
• Business and Commerce, Financial and Bank Records
  
  • Historical Directories  Local and trade directories for England and Wales, 1750 - 1919. High quality reproductions
• Census
  
  • 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891, 1901 England & Wales Census      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • 1881 Census of Wales      (Source: Ancestry.com)     ($)
  • 1881 England & Wales Census - Transcription FREE  Images not available     (Source: FindMyPast.com)
  • Match with cousins based on the 1881 Census      (Source: Lost Cousins)
  • Search the 1901 Wales Census      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)
  • UK Census      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • UK Census Online      (Source: FreeCEN, part of the FreeUKGen Project)
• Church History
  
  • Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 9, The Welsh cathedrals  Traces the chronology and careers of the bishops and the senior clergy of Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph and St Davids cathedrals and dioceses, information on the value of prebends and the estates of dignities     (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
  • Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 11, The Welsh dioceses  Traces the chronology and careers of the bishops and senior clergy of Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph and St Davids cathedral and dioceses     (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
• Church Records
  
  • Baptism, marriage, and burial records, transcribed from UK parish and non-conformist registers      (Source: FreeReg, part of the FreeUKGen Project)
  • The Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service: For records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources      ($)
  • The Surman Index Online  Biographical card index of Congregational ministers mid-seventeenth century to 1972
  • UK and Ireland Church Records      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Civil Registration, Registration Offices
  
  • FreeBMD, transcriptions of the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Death Records
  
  • Ancestry England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 - Free index      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)
  • Birth, marriage and death certificates, adoption records  After 1837     (Source: DirectGov)     ($)
  • De Ruvigny's Roll 1914-1918  biographical details of many of those who fell     (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Deaths - England & Wales 1837-1983, and 1984-2006      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Description & Travel
  
  • Aer Arann serves Birmingham, Belfast, Blackpool, Bristol, Cardiff, Derry/Londonderry, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Isle of Man, Jersey, London-Luton, Manchester, Southampton, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Knock, Sligo, Waterford      ($)
  • Eastern Airways serves Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Humberside, Isle of Man, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, Newcastle, Norwich, Oslo, Southampton, Stornoway, Stavanger, Wick      ($)
  • Gateway to traveler's information 
  • Great British Heritage Pass 
• Directories
  
  • Historical Directories  Local and trade directories for England and Wales, 1750 - 1919. High quality reproductions
  • Monmouthshire in 1901: Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire, 1901      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • UK Directories      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• DNA Projects
  
  • British Isles DNA Project is open to persons whose family history or surname indicates a paternal or maternal lineage originating in the British Isles  Both yDNA and mtDNA
  • British Quakers DNA Project: your DIRECT paternal or DIRECT maternal ancestor must have been a QUAKER of British descent to be eligible to join  Both yDNA and mtDNA     (Source: Family Tree DNA)
  • Direct maternal or paternal line ancestors of Welsh origin with patronymic style surnames  Both yDNA and mtDNA     (Source: Family Tree DNA)
  • List is for the participants in the Wales/Cymru DNA Project, their family members, and all others interested in the history of Wales, the Welsh Patronymic naming system and the genetic heritage of Wales      (Source: Yahoo)
  • Wales DNA project membership requires submitting an ancestral chart and administration approval  Both yDNA and mtDNA     (Source: Family Tree DNA)
• Emigration and Immigration
  
  • IRISH-IN-UK mail list for genealogy, history, culture or anything related to the Irish (including Northern Ireland) emigration to the UK, including England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • PA-WELSH-EARLY genealogy mailing list for the Welsh who settled in southeastern Pennsylvania prior to 1750      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • WELSH-EMIGRANTS genealogy mailing list discussing emigrants from Wales to any other country in the world      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • WELSH-IN-USA genealogy mailing list for families from Wales, United Kingdom, who settled in the United States      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Gazetteers
  
  • Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516: A gazetteer of markets and fairs in England and Wales, with their dates of foundation      (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
  • The GENUKI Gazetteer covers the whole of England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Monmouthshire in 1901: Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire, 1901      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Fourth edition, originally published in two volumes  Contains detailed topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in Wales, arranged alphabetically     (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
• Genealogy (20)
• Geographical Names
  
  • Counties before and after 1974, presented by the UK National Inventory of War Memorials 
• Historical Region
  
  • Genealogy mail list for Clwyd, Wales, comprising north-east Wales; the pre-1974 counties of Flintshire, Denbighshire and the Edeyrnion district of Meirionethshire      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Genealogy mail list for Dyfed, comprising Cardiganshire, Carmartheshire, and Pembrokeshire, Wales      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Glamorgan or Glamorganshire is one of the thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales  Originally an early medieval kingdom until taken over by the Normans as a lordship
  • Historic or ancient counties of Wales, superseded by contemporary subnational divisions, some of which bear some limited similarity to the historic entities in name and extent      (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Mail list for the preserved county of Powys, described as the counties of Breconshire, Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire, and areas bordering those counties      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • MIDMARCH genealogy mail list for the counties of Breconshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire, England and Wales      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Geographical Names
    
    • Gwent is a preserved county (1974-1996) named after the ancient Kingdom of Gwent      (Source: Wikipedia)
    • Gwynedd, a modern county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd; also used for a preserved county, covering Anglesey as well as the current county  Culturally and historically, the name can also be used for most of north Wales     (Source: Wikipedia)
    • Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales, comprising the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire, and a small part of Denbighshire      (Source: Wikipedia)
• History
  
  • "Celts" is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language      (Source: Wikipedia)
  • British Newspapers 1800-1900  two million pages of 19th century newspapers, search 49 local and national titles     (Source: British Library)     ($)
  • Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516: A gazetteer of markets and fairs in England and Wales, with their dates of foundation      (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
  • Historical Directories  Local and trade directories for England and Wales, 1750 - 1919. High quality reproductions
  • Phillimore, publisher and bookseller of British local and family history 
  • Roger Whitley's Diary 1684-1697: Diary of a Cheshire gentleman, Whig Member of Parliament for Chester in 1689-97 and landholder in Wales. Michael Stevens' transcription is published by permission of the Bodleian Library      (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
  • Wales: The 13 historic counties of Wales      (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
• Hospital, Doctor & other Medical Records
  
  • UK and Ireland Topics - Medical Records      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Language, Languages, Writing
  
  • Welsh English speech goes online  Hundreds of recordings of disappearing dialects of English spoken in Wales from the 1960s onwards are being made available for research     (Source: BBC)
• Libraries
  
  • National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 
• Mail Lists, Message Boards & Internet Groups
  
  • Gwreiddiau (Wales) genealogy mail list  The language for the list is Welsh     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Search all the Wales Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Wales GenWeb genealogy mail list      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Manor and other Large Estate Records
  
  • Manorial Documents Register (MDR) Search of the Wales Manorial Records      (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))
• Maps
  
  • David Rumsey Map Collection, British Isles 
  • National Library's map section  Online and downloadable maps     (Source: National Library of Scotland)
  • Old and Interesting Historic Maps      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 Epoch 1 - The County Series of Ordnance Survey maps for Great Britain. Begun in 1840, this is the first comprehensive historic mapping of England, Scotland and Wales      (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
  • Ordnance Survey products 
  • Street maps 
• Marriage Records
  
  • Ancestry England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915 - Free index      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)
  • Birth, marriage and death certificates, adoption records  After 1837     (Source: DirectGov)     ($)
  • Marriages - England & Wales 1837-1983, and 1984-2005      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Military Records
  
  • British Military Records      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • De Ruvigny's Roll 1914-1918  biographical details of many of those who fell in the service of their country     (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Overview of the Military of the United Kingdom      (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Newspapers
  
  • British Media Online - All the national and regional newspapers published online 
  • British Newspapers 1800-1900  two million pages of 19th century newspapers, search 49 local and national titles     (Source: British Library)     ($)
  • Local Newspaper Web Sites: A-Z 
  • Newspaper Society's online Regional Press Database; regional and local newspapers in the UK 
  • Newspapers and news sources from Wales / Cymru      (Source: Kidon Media Link; Newspapers and News Sources)
  • Newspapers Digitisation Project unlocks resources for the study of the 19th century and the Victorian period, as seen through the pages of the British Library's extensive holdings of national, regional and local newspapers  Focus on London national newspapers, English regional newspapers, home country newspapers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and titles in specialist areas such as Victorian radicalism and chartism     (Source: British Library)
  • Newspapers of Wales      (Source: News Directory.com)
  • Newsplan, a co-operative programme for the microfilming and preservation of local newspapers and making them accessible to users      (Source: British Library)
  • UK and Ireland Newspapers      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Occupations and Trades
  
  • Lighthouse Personnel In England, Wales and the Channel Islands, c1790-1911      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Lighthouse Personnel In England, Wales and the Channel Islands, c1790-1911: Keepers      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Lighthouses In England, Wales and the Channel Islands, c1790-1911      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Stan Cook's Gunmakers & Allied Trades Index [including Gunsmiths, Gunlock makers and Gunbarrel makers]  Information about gun trade people working in the UK from the start of the trade before 1500 up to 1901     (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Maps
    
    • Lighthouse Personnel In England, Wales and the Channel Islands, c1790-1911 - Location Map      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Personal Names
  
  • Name Seekers, Experts in First Names, Surnames and Coats of Arms  Surname histories
  • National Trust Names  Find out where your surname comes from, and how many people you share it with
  • Surnames of England and Wales - the ONS list  How common (or rare) is your surname?
• Societies
  
  • British Isles Family History Society - USA      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • FreeBMD-Admins genealogy mail list for FreeBMD project Questions and Answers forum for transcribers and volunteers      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • FREEBMD-DISCUSS genealogy mail list for general FreeBMD discussion      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • FreeBMD-News, read-only mailing list for people who are interested in how the FreeBMD project is progressing      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • FREEBMD-SYNDICATES genealogy mail list for Syndicate co-ordinators and includes discussion of strategic direction in allocating quarters to syndicates, and policy regarding error correction. Also provides mutual help and advice for co-ordinators      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Vital Records (Births, Marriages, Deaths)
  
  • Ancestry England & Wales Birth, Marriage & Death - Free index      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)
  • England and Wales Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificate Tutorial 
  • General Register Office for England and Wales - BMD Certificate ordering service      (Source: General Register Office (England and Wales))     ($)
  • Records appearing on the second edition of the British Isles Vital Record Index from the LDS 
• Wills, Probate, Testate and Intestate Records
  
  • Access to Archives (A2A), indexing All Welsh probate records 1521-1858 held at the National Library of Wales  Confine the search to the National Library of Wales and enter a keyword 'probate' or 'will' as well as surname of interest     (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))

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