Wales Websites

Some of these sources may have limited Welsh content.

= All Wales/General =

Archives &amp; libraries


 * National Library of Wales ISYSweb Free Text Search This allows for a keyword search of the manuscript collections. Try a search for a parish or farm name. In some cases a brief extract from the manuscript (such as a title deed) is included which may provide names, dates, places, relationships etc..
 * Archives Network Wales Descriptions of documents held by record offices, universities and other repositories in Wales.
 * National Archives Access to Archives Descriptions of records held at various archives but mainly in England.

Birth Calculator


 * Birth Date Calculator This helps calculate the birth date when all you know is the date of death and age at death.

Cemeteries


 * Commonwealth War Graves Commission The "Debt of Honour Register" is the Commission's database listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars and the 23,000 cemeteries, memorials and other locations worldwide where they are commemorated.
 * War Graves In Britain - The intent of this organization is to create awareness of the local Commonwealth War graves in Great Britain and compile a record of untended war graves. Sparse content.

Census


 * Rootsweb General UK genealogy site.
 * GenUKI General UK &amp; IRL genealogy information
 * FreeCen This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" on-line searchable database of the 19th century census returns for Wales, Scotland &amp; England.
 * 1901 Census index of Royal Navy Ships An index of ships that were at sea or in ports on March 31, 1901, the day the 1901 census was taken.
 * Jews in Welsh Censuses Searchable databases for Jews living in Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
 * CensusFinder Information on Welsh censuses
 * FindMyPast Commercial UK Genealogy Site

Church records


 * National Library of Wales
 * GenUKI
 * Baptist Ministers in Baptist Magazine 1811
 * Directories - Fasti Ecclesiastae Anglicanae
 * Hugh Wallis' IGI Batch Numbers for Wales
 * Rootsweb

Civil registration


 * Civil Registration
 * FreeBMD Civil Registration
 * FindMy Past Commercial genealogy site
 * GRO On-line Certificate Ordering
 * NorthWalesBMD

Court records


 * Crime and Punishment Database from the Court of Great Sessions gaol files for the years 1730-1830.

Dictionaries


 * Lampeter University's Welsh Dictionary on-line
 * Oxford English Dictionary online

Directory - Churches


 * Chapel Recording Project of Welsh Chapels
 * Church Photographs from the north-east
 * The Parish Clerk Index

Emigrant &amp; Immigrant


 * EllisIsland, New York
 * Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
 * Brits in South America
 * Welsh Mariners Index

Favourites


 * Archives &amp; Libraries - The National Archives website
 * Archon
 * Burke's Peerage
 * Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
 * Historical Manuscripts Commission - ARCHON Home page
 * Vision of Britain

Gazetteers


 * Ordnance Survey guide to Welsh place names
 * Welsh Chapels
 * The Parish Clerk Index
 * Vision of Britain

Genealogy


 * Indexes links var.
 * Wales Lookup Exchange,a genealogy help page

Heraldry


 * Burke's Peerage
 * Nobility - Indexes Castle Index

Jews


 * JewishGen UK Database
 * Welsh Census Returns Jews 1851,1891

Maps


 * Maps - Get a map from Ordnance Survey

Merchant marines


 * Lloyd's Ship Register index
 * Welsh Mariners Index

Military records


 * British Battles
 * Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 * Napoleonic War Naval Indexes
 * The National Archives Trafalgar ancestors
 * War Graves In Britain

Names - Geographical


 * Glossary of Welsh Place-Name Elements

Names - Personal


 * On-line Welsh names directory

Newspapers


 * Gentleman's Magazine Search

Nobility


 * Nobility - Indexes Castle Index

Occupations


 * UK Coal Mining Index
 * Welsh Coal Mines

= Anglesey =

Census


 * Amlwch and district Census 1841-1901
 * Anglesey Union Workhouse 1881 Census

Church records


 * Anglesey Calvinistic Methodist Births/Baptisms pre-1837
 * Holyhead Wesleyan Methodist Births/Baptisms 1842-1890
 * Beaumaris Circuit Wesleyan Methodist Births/Baptisms
 * Holyhead Circuit Wesleyan Methodist Births/Baptisms 1842-1890

= Breconshire =

General


 * Powys County Archives Office

Census


 * Crickhowell Workhouse 1881

Church records


 * Breconshire Marriages 1754-1812

= Caenarfonshire =

Census


 * Download of the 1851 Aber Census Indexes
 * Llyn Peninsula Census 1861

Church records


 * Caernarfon - Pew Rentals
 * Conwy St Mary's Parish MIs

Civil Registration


 * North Wales Births Marriages &amp; Deaths

= Cardiganshire =

General


 * Dyfed Family History Society

Census


 * Aberystwyth Workhouse 1881
 * Llangynfelyn 1841-1901 Censuses

Church records


 * Llangynfelyn marriages 1813-1880

Genealogy


 * One Place Study for Llangynfelyn Includes links to many indexes and records for this parish.

= Carmarthenshire =

Genealogy


 * Dyfed Family History Society

= Denbighshire =

Cemeteries


 * Wrexham Cemeteries

Churches


 * Shropshire's Non-conformist chapels (includes some border chapels in Denbighshire

Civil Registration


 * NorthWalesBMD indexes 1837-1950
 * Wrexham Marriage Indexes - 1837-1997

Genealogy


 * Clwyd Family History Society

= Flintshire =

Civil Registration


 * NorthWalesBMD indexes 1837-1950

Genealogy


 * Clwyd Family History Society

= Glamorgan =

Cemeteries


 * Penrhys Cemetery

Church records


 * Dissenter Index for Glamorgan &amp; Monmouthshire

Merchant marines


 * Cardiff Merchant Marine Indexes, Agreement &amp; Crew Lists
 * Merchant Marine Indexes, Channel Pilots

Probate


 * Swansea Wills

Public records


 * Glamorgan Public Records Office

= Merionethshire =

Civil Registration


 * NorthWalesBMD indexes 1837-1950

= Montgomeryshire =

Census


 * Llanfyllin Workhouse 1881

Church records


 * Llanlugan Church records indexes

Civil Registration


 * NorthWalesBMD Indexes 1837-1950

= Monmouthshire =

Cemeteries


 * Monmouthshire Monumental Inscriptions

Church records


 * Church records - Dissenter Index for Glamorgan &amp; Monmouthshire
 * Caerwent Church records

= Pembrokeshire =

Census


 * Llanboidy 1861

Genealogy


 * Dyfed Family History Society

= Radnorshire =

Census


 * Knighton Workhouse 1881

Landowners


 * Radnorshire landowners in 1873

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