Wales History and Genealogy

Wales, Welsh CYMRU, country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. On three sides the boundaries of Wales are natural, with the shores of the Dee estuary and Liverpool Bay to the north, the Irish Sea to the west, and the coastline of the Severn estuary on the south. The eastern boundary - that with England - is an administrative, though not political, frontier. It was created in 1536 as part of the Act of Union, finally and effectively linking England and Wales.

Archives, Libraries, and Societies

• Public Record Office Archives
• National Library of Wales
• Association of Family History Societies of Wales 

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

• Free BMD

Cemeteries

• Find a Grave, Wales
• Memorial Inscriptions from the St Mary's Parish Church Conwy North Wales

Census

• Street-indexed 1881 census districts
• Street-indexed 1891 census districts
• Searchable Database of Places in the 1891 Census

Church

• Abbeys and other Religious Sites in Wales
• The Church in Wales
• Quaker Family History Center

Directories

• Extracts of names from "Dissent in the Counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth" by Hywel D Emanuel published in The National Library of Wales Journal 1954-5

• Powys Digital History Project

Immigration

• Mormon Immigration Index Lookup
• Ellis Island Passenger Lookup
• Early Emigration from Wales
• Emigrants from Abedaron Caernarvonshire, North Wales to the USA
• Passenger list of the Barque "Gwen Evans" of Wales 1842 entering the Port of Boston, 15th August 1842
• Passenger list for the ship 'Higginson' sailing from Caernarfonshire with 141 Welsh Emigrants on board and arriving in New York May 18th 1850
• Welsh in Oneida County, New York

Language

• History and Status of the Welsh Language
• Graveyard Welsh

Mailing Lists

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Maps and Gazetteers

• Data Wales Map Page
• The National Gazetteer of Wales 

Military

• 17th (Service) Battalion The Welsh Regiment
• The Welch Regiment Museum (41 st/69th Foot) of The Royal Regiment of Wales

Newspapers

• Border Counties Advertizer (Oswestry)
• Chester Evening Leader
• County Times (Welshpool, Newtown & Mid Wales)
• Denbighshire Free Press (St Asaph, Denbigh & Ruthin)
• Ellesmere Port Standard
• The Flintshire Evening Leader (Mold, Deeside, Buckley, Hawarden, Connah's Quay & Holywell)
• The Journal (Rhyl, Prestatyn & Abergele)
• North Wales Pioneer (Colwyn Bay, Llandudno & Conwy)
• Rhyl, Prestatyn & Abergele Journal (North Wales coast)
• Wrexham Leader
• Y Cymro

Surnames

• Welsh Surname Lists
• One Name Database Lookup Exchange
• Welsh Family History Archive

Websites

• Wales GENUKI
  • Anglesey
  • Breconshire
  • Caernarvonshire
  • Cardiganshire
  • Carmarthenshire
  • Denbighshire
  • Flintshire
  • Glamorgan
  • Merionethshire
  • Monmouthshire
  • Montgomeryshire
  • Pembrokeshire
  • Radnorshire
• Data Wales
• Welsh Family and Local History

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