Wales Research Topics

Free genealogy help and resources are available for Wales and for individual counties. Select a county where your ancestor lived or browse the topics listed to the left and the featured items listed below to learn more about your ancestors.

Featured content



 * Emigration: Record Selection Guide
 * Key Online Record Set: Welsh Probates
 * Browse by Topic: Pages for Wales
 * FamilySearch: Welsh Records
 * Article: Wales Missing Census Records
 * Research Places: Aberkenfig Resource Centre &amp; Cefn Mawr Resource Centre
 * National Library of Wales: Manuscript Pedigrees

News and events
News:


 * Records recently deposited for Bethania Chapel, Maesteg 1861-2005 at the Glamorgan Record Office.
 * Pre 1858 Welsh Probate indexes and free document images are now online.
 * The 1911 census is now available online for all of Wales. About 13% of the schedules are printed and filled out in Welsh.
 * Ordnance Survey Maps with registration district boundaries free to search online
 * The National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth has begun a £20 million project to make large parts of its collection available on-line. The project will take 10 years to complete and will involve the digitising of millions of documents, newspapers and books.
 * The latest national Census in Wales took place on 27 March, 2011.
 * BBC Wales have relaunched their website on Welsh Family History
 * FamilySearch now has Welsh parish registers on microfilm.

Events:


 * Cwrs Cymraeg This year's Welsh course, Cwrs Cymraeg Dyffryn Shenandoah, will be at Shenandoah University in Virginia on July 17-24, 2011.


 * More events &amp; details ...

Things you can do

 * Join a Community of Wales researchers! Ask questions, help others, and share your research successes on Facebook and/or Skype. NEW!
 * Plan Your Research Trip to Wales
 * Take one of many Welsh Language Courses

Useful websites

 * BBC Wales - Family History
 * National Gazetteer of Wales
 * Graveyard Welsh
 * Welsh Mormon History
 * BYU Research Outline for Wales

more Wales Websites

Wiki articles describing these collections are found at:


 * England and Wales Nonconformist Index for RG 4-8 (Record Groups 4-8) (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wales Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wales Death and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wales Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wales Glamorgan Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Wales, Probate Abstracts (FamilySearch Historical Records)