Welsh Genealogy Resources

[gaabi]

Happy hunting!

GENERAL GENEALOGY HOW-TO ARTICLES AND TIPS:

LDS Family History Library "How Do I Begin?"
(this site also includes free forms and TONS of excellent, free resources)
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Home/Welcome/frameset_information.asp

About.com collection of articles on starting genealogy research
http://genealogy.about.com/library/onestop/bl_beginner.htm

Free online tutorial course on online genealogy research
http://www.learnwebskills.com/

RESOURCES AND STUFF

Selection of free family tree pdf's to download - one for kids, classic box chart, tree graphic chart, etc.
http://www.misbach.org/pdfcharts/

Free family tree website - post online:
http://www.familytreeguide.com/

Free download forms and charts for organizing research
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html

LDS Family History Library online -
This is the BEST place I've ever gone for genealogy stuff - I've been there in person and it's AMAZING and it's free. Here's their online site, stuffed with resources from the US and other countries. There's a page on Wales with parish and family records, etc; pages on every state in the US, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, you name it.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

US GEN WEB
This is a volunteer project to provide free resources on the internet and it's got material from all over the US, organized by state and can include military records, birth and death, many other resources -
http://usgenweb.org/index.shtml

RootsWeb
Contributor-based Ancestry.com community, includes how-to articles and links to databases and many other resources - huge and overwhelming, best to go in with some idea of what you want already
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

Footnote
Some offbeat and free resources
http://www.footnote.com/

World Vital Records
Some free, some paid resources
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/default.aspx

KIndred Trails
multi-nation resources
http://www.kindredtrails.com/index.html

Genealogy Bank
US records and newspapers from 1690 to the present
http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/keyword.html

US National Archives genealogy resources
Census records, military service records, immigration records, land grants, passport applications and much more - has a video tutorial on how to begin research
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/

US Library of Congress
The link below is their genealogy reading room page but they also have online subscription service, American Memory (a digital collection of US historic documents) and tons of amazing things like interviews with survivors of the US slave era done in the early 1930s. TONS of stuff.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/

Library and Archives of CANADA
Looks like a great and well organized site with how to's, military records, birth and death, immigration, tons of stuff
http://collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/index-e.html

Automated Genealogy CANADA
automated indexes
http://automatedgenealogy.com/

Wales Genealogy forum
http://genforum.genealogy.com/wales/

Welsh genealogy links
http://www.ukgenealogy.co.uk/wales.htm

North Wales genealogy links
http://www.northwalesindex.co.uk/pages/64.html

OGRE Project WALES
Free online genealogy search engine
http://www.cefnpennar.com/index.htm

and then there's always ancestry.com, which I don't know anything about as it's paid

[gaabi]

I found that the Library of Congress also has a guide to researching British Isles genealogy at the LOC and other libraries:

"Family Ties in England, Scotland, Wales, & Ireland: Sources for Genealogical Research, a 108-page guide, has been published to assist researchers who come to the Library of Congress or other large institutions with similar collections to research family roots in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales. The Library's collection of local history and genealogical material for the British Isles and Ireland is second only to those genealogical holdings related to the United States.

"Compiled by Judith P. Reid, head of the Library's Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, the softcover guide includes 425 bibliographical entries to categories of information such as Handbooks, Pedigrees and Family Histories, Bibliographies, Local History, Biographical Information, Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers, Personal and Geographical Names, Periodicals, and, for Scotland, Clans and Tartans. An author and title index supplements the bibliographical contents of the guide."

And all only $5.50 + $3.50 S&H, not bad for 108 pages of LOC goodness!

[Gregg Watts]

FYI, I'm a member on Ancestry.com and have access to their member's only files. At this point the censuses for Wales from 1851 to 1901 are online and indexed (as well as England and some Scotland and all the US censuses from 1790 to 1930). I'd be happy to do lookups for Americymru members - as long as I'm not overwhelmed with requests.

[gaabi]

Wow, that's really cool - I'm not that far yet (I don't have names) but this is a very nice and generous offer - do you mind if I put an announcement in the feed on the front page?

[Beverly G]

I am also a subscriber to Ancestry.com I'd also be happy to do lookups for census records for fellow members in the UK and US. This could help in not overwhelming Gregg as well.

[Beverly G]

I'd like to add one more site. I've been working with someone up in Angelsey who has provided me with 15 free minutes of research. After that it's a paid service, but its a reasonable rate and far cheaper than airfare and hotel. She's already helped me immensly. [e-mail]

Does anyone know where I can find some help for Caernavonshire?

[Darris G. Williams]

I'd like to invite anyone with interest in genealogy to visit a fairly new site called FamilySearch Wiki. I think the best portion is at https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Wales but I am biased. Most other countries are included. There are a lot of different helps there for the beginning and experienced genealogist. Americymru is even noted in the news secton.

[gaabi]

Ships List - free resource for passenger lists for ships to and from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and more - great resource, it's not complete but it's got a lot of stuff on it -

http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html