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Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians (Tracing Your Ancestors) Kindle Edition

by Beryl Evans (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
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Few previous publications have focused on Welsh family history, and none have provided a comprehensive guide to the genealogical information available and where to find it. That is why the publication of Beryl Evans's new Welsh family history handbook is such a significant event in the field. Her detailed, accessible, authoritative guide will be essential reading and reference for anyone who is eager to research ancestors from Wales. She describes the key archival sources and shows how the development of new technology, the internet in particular, has made them so much easier to explore. Drawing on her long experience of family history work, she gives clear practical advice on how to start a research project, and she sketches in the outlines of Welsh history, Welsh surnames and place-names and the Welsh language. But the main body of her book is devoted to identifying the variety of sources researchers can consult the archive repositories, including The National Library of Wales, civil records of all kinds, the census, parish registers, wills, the records of churches, chapels, schools, businesses, tax offices and courts, and the wide range of printed records. Beryl Evans's handbook will be a basic text for researchers of Welsh descent and for anyone who is keen to learn about Welsh history
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    Tracing Your Ancestors
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    235 pages
  3. Language
    English
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  5. Publisher
    Pen & Sword Family History
  6. Publication date
    May 30, 2015
  7. File size
    34155 KB
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"This guide for general readers explains how to research Welsh family history \and find info on ancestors from Wales. The book overviews the steps of a family history project and looks at Welsh surnames and place names. It then identifies and describes major resources such as archives, civil records, parish registers, church and school records, tax and court records, birth and death records, and military records. Each chapter lists many web sites. The book contains b&w photos of places, news papers, and documents, plus 20 pages of appendices listing contacts for many records offices, archives, and family history centers in Wales."
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About the Author

Beryl Evans is Research Services Manager at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth and has been researching Welsh family history for thirty years. She is a member of the executive committees of the Federation of Family History Societies and the Association of Family History Societies of Wales, and she is chairman of the Cardiganshire Family History Society. She has contributed to television and radio programmes on family history and to magazines and journals in the field.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ZGOZNB6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Family History; Illustrated edition (May 30, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 30, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 34155 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 235 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

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Delta
5.0 out of 5 stars This THE BEST source re this topic!
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2021
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I had tried other sources re Welsh ancestry, but found this book to be THE BEST of all. Also--when I submitted a query re a specific person's place & date of birth, parents' names etc, the person who contacted me with the information was none other than the author of this book!!
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Simple Bubba
5.0 out of 5 stars Gr8 Source of Information
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2018
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The guide lives up to its title a guide. A lot of great information and suggestions. Well worth it to those who are not genealogist professional or amateurs, but simple bubbas' looking for help in trying to figure out one family history beyond state side (USA).
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2015
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Have only read the first few chapters but I am finding it very interesting and helpful. Learning the Welsh language is very interesting.
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Duane Ellis
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2018
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I haven't read it all yet but it is interesting and informative.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2018
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Great addition to my for my genealogy reference library ....
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Peter Marshall
5.0 out of 5 stars Family history
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2023
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A very interesting book for finding information on my family over the centuries and where they originate from. I can now finish where my mother started looking for.
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R Skinner
5.0 out of 5 stars Great present idea
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2022
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Nice size and with lots of information. May need to ask to borrow it from my nephew!
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Mr.J.D.Price
4.0 out of 5 stars A good and helpful book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2016
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Obviously well researched and has much detail.A good and helpful book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bought as a present
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2020
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I wanted a present that my wife could give to me, looks good and might help with those elusive relatives who might use a surname and / or a patronymic in Church records depending on the whim of the scribe.
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Esmie
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2015
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still reading it so no review possible yet. Seems to tell a good story
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