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We are very fortunate in having list members who are actively engaged in other genealogical projects. Look out for regular List Members:

• Gareth Hicks  runs Genuki Wales website full of information and also a Help page.  His Cwmgors a'r Waun site,  is slanted towards Welsh genealogy.
• Dai Bevan is admin for the Dyfed Mailing List where you will find experts on many subjects willing to help. Dai also has a Duffryn-Clydach website
• John Ball who contributes photographs of areas of Wales on his personal website John's Homepage. John is administrator of the excellently run Powys List.
• Jeff Coleman who maintains our Glamorgan Mailing List and gives detailed help with family history requests. Jeff is particularly knowledgeable about the Swansea valley.
• Jill Muir runs this website and the Welsh Chapels and Churches Photographic Web site and helps as Joint List Administrator for the Glamorgan List. She has a website on Transcribing Gravestones.

 

Glamorgan Family History Links.

Discover more about Glamorgan and your Genealogy.

Here are some useful websites for you to bookmark or favourite:

• LookupExchange. This is a database of reference works/books which volunteers are willing to search for specific entries
• Genuki Wales Many sets of official records were kept for England and Wales together, so that the problems of locating them and using them are very similar in the two countries.
• GENUKI's Glamorgan page full of lively information related to all of Glamorgan.
• GENUKI's Register Office addresses index of English and Welsh Register Offices
• GENUKI's Civil Registration in England & Wales page other Civil Registration areas in England and Wales
• GENUKI Contents pages of GenUKi Contents and Structure for the British Isles
• Map of Glamorgan showing parishes of Glamorgan, with the start date of their parish registers
• Glamorgan Family History Society [GFHS] For Beginners to Family History there is also a very good guide to aid the Beginner here.

Masses of Glamorgan related material

• Bob Saunders site ~ Cardiff and Glamorgan Family History
• Bryan Richards ~ Swansea Mariners ~ dedicated to Captain Briscoe and mariners who sailed from Swansea.
• Welsh Coal Mines ~ Photographs of Colleries with a description of each.
• Reg Davies' ~ Welsh Mariners ~ on-line index of 23,500 Welsh merchant masters, mates and engineers active from 1800 to 1945
• Bernard Ingram ~ Digging up the past ~ a photographic archive of the Welsh Coalfields.

Glamorgan Places

• The Llantrisant History Society ~  The Society's website list all the books and journals published by the society on Llantrisant and area. 
• Ogmore Valley History Society ~ Ogmore Valley is deemed to include the habitations of Blackmill, Glyn Llan, Glynogwr, Lewistown, Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale, Pant-yr-awel, Pricetown and Wyndham together with their environs. These districts fall within the ancient former Parishes of Llangeinor and Llandyfodwg.
• The late Brian Wagstaff's website on the Neath Valley ~ Neath Glamorgan ~ A Genealogy in Context
• Alan George ~ Old Merthyr photographs ~ A photographic History of Merthyr Tydfil ~ an excellent website.
• Treboeth History Group  ~ Llangyfelach parish, Swansea
• Clydach Historical Society ~ a Swansea website.
•  Llanishen Local History Society (Cardiff) ~
• History on Llanishen's doorstep.
• Whitchurch and Llandaff North,Cardiff ~ Steve Nicholas's site.

Surnames and Place Names

• Glamorgan Families site ~ Surnames Interest website, Teuluoedd Morgannwg/ Glamorgan Families.
• Online Welsh Names website ~ a list of surnames of pre 1974 Welsh counties.
• Glamorgan Surname Interests ~ A site for Glamorgan Surnames being researched can be found on the Glamorgan FHS Website.
• A complete Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire for 1901
• The National Archives Family & Estate Index ~ a magnificient website.
• Rootsweb's Surname List ~ Search Rootsweb Surname List
• Deric John's Place Names ~ Place-names in South Wales.
• Family History ~ an excellent BBC website.
• Federation of Family History Societies [FFHS] ~ 'First Steps' on how to begin your Family History.
• Should I join a Family History Society? FFHS ~ Research Tips.

Record Office, Libraries, Museums and Mailing Lists

• Glamorgan Record Office [GlamRO] The Archive Office for the City and County of Cardiff, County Borough Councils of Bridgend, Caerphilly (for the former Rhymney Valley District Council area), Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan
• West Glamorgan Archive Service has detailed information about its holdings and is the Archive Office for the City and County of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
• Glamorgan Rootsweb Mailing List Archives Search the Archive of Messages for GLAMORGAN Mailing List.
• Guild Of One-Name Studies[GOONS]
• Rootsweb's Home Page loads of information on Mailing Lists, free webspace and Getting Started etc.,
• Rootsweb's Index of e-mail Discussion Lists A complete index to RootsWeb's 29,889 genealogy mailing lists!
• Malcolm's List Etiquette and more:- 
• Llanciach House - one of the finest examples of a semi-fortified manor house in Wales
• Welsh Folk Museum - Museum of Welsh Life.

Further Research

• Family Search Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: [LDS] (also known as Mormons) contains the IGI, the 1881 census and other data.
• Cyndi's List:- Worldwide Genealogy
• Free BMD The excellent and highly recommended Free Births Marriages and Deaths Index. [FreeBMD]to the GRO Indexes [not yet complete but improving all the time.]
• Rootschat -RootsChat.com ~ an easy to use messaging forum for everyone researching their family history roots or local history. The focus is on Ireland and the British Isles.  This service is entirely free.
• Society of Genealogists [SoG] ~ Boyd's Marriage Index and the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty Office and Vicar General Marriage Licences will be published on Findmypast.co.uk

Publications of practical help

• Family Tree Magazine - a journal for those who have done some Family history.
• A magazine with helpful topics and stories about this wonderful hobby  of ours ~ [Magazine highly recommended by Jill ] There are of course Australian and American publications of a like magazine.

Photographic websites

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission ~ Search their records and view the new History site.
• World War 1 Photos - British Legion site - featured World War I music and songs.
• The War Graves Photographic Project in association with the CWGC. This site also arranges Tours of War Graves.
• Barrians in The Great Wars of the 20th Century. ~ Memories of people of Barry's Wartime Service wanted.
• John Ball's Homepage an excellent website full of interest
• Images of Wales site Many beautiful photos of Welsh places that John has visited.
• Phil Evans' Photographic Archives of the United Kingdom. ~ An interesting website that Phil has compiled. Some nice old photos of Wales.
• David Bolton's Pillars of Faith - An excellent website of Rhondda Chapel photographs.
• Jo & Ian Jeremiah's Pages ~ Wales & Borders.
• Barry Needle's South Wales in focus ~ beautiful images of Wales
• Tom Clemett's History of Barry ~ an excellent site of stories and photographs about Barry.
• Roger Vaughan's' site ~ help to date your photos.
• Celtic Visions photographs of Wales ~ Jason Beynon's wonderful Welsh images.

Please note - We have listed the above links as a general guide to some useful sites. They are not the only sites available, nor are we expressing any kind of recommendation or approval [except where noted] of the above to the detriment of other sites.