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Welsh Family History Societies
Association of Family History Societies of Wales
Cymdeithas Achyddol Maldwyn - Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society
Cymdeithas Hanes Teuluoedd Ceredigion - Cardiganshire Family History Society
Cymdeithas Hanes Teuluoedd Clwyd - (Flintshire, Denbighshire, part of Meirionethshire)
Dyfed Family History Society - (Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire)
Glamorgan Family History Society
Gwent Family History Society:- (historic county of Monmouthshire)
Powys Family History Society - (Breconshire, Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire)
Welsh family history societies outside Wales
Federation of Family History Societies
London Branch of the Welsh Family History Societies
Wales-New Zealand Family History Society:
Professional Genealogists
Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG)
Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA)
Useful Welsh family history source sites
From Sheep to Sugar: Welsh Wool and Slavery
Places / Maps
Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates
National Library of Scotland (maps): (includes good range of maps for Wales)
RCAHMW list of historic place-names
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (RCAHMW)
Welsh Archives
Aberystwyth University Archives:
Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives
Ceredigion Archives - (Cardiganshire)
Gwent Archives - (historic county of Monmouthshire)
Gwynedd Archives Services - (Caernarfon Record Office & Merionnydd Record Office)
The Heritage & Cultural Exchange Archive (photographs, oral histories and other documents associated with Tiger Bay, Cardiff)
North East Wales Archive - (Denbighshire, Flintshire)
Powys Archives - (Breconshire, Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire)
Richard Burton Archives - (Swansea University)
Roderic Bowen Library and Archives (University of Wales Trinity St. David):
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (library):
Welsh National Genealogical Resources
National Library of Wales - including:
- Welsh newspapers;
- Welsh Journals;
- Places of Wales for Welsh Tithe maps;
- Welsh Wills Online pre 1858
- Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig
- Cronfa Trosedd a Chosb
- Ymrwymiadau priodas
Welsh Museums
National Museum Wales - includes
- National Museum Cardiff
- St. Fagans National Museum of History
- National Waterfront Museum
- Big Pit National Coal Museum
- National Slate Museum
- National Wool Museum
- National Roman Legion Museum
Penmaenmawr Historical society and Museum
Welsh Museums Federation - (click on ‘Members’ for links to websites for museums in Wales, indexed by county)
UK and worldwide family history sources
Family Search - Wales Genealogy
Family Search - Wales Languages
Family Search - Wales Personal Names
Family Search - Wales Societies
Subscription websites with records for Wales
Ancestry - Conwy Parish Registers 1541 – 1793
FindMyPast - (Wales Probate Records 1544-1858 for probate abstracts)