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We are working on a project to publish 8,000,000 fully searchable Welsh parish records on findmypast.co.uk
This is the first time that these records will be made available online and you can expect to see them on findmypast.co.uk over the next two years.
The project is taking place with the permission of the Church in Wales and Welsh Archive Services. We are working to digitise the records with FamilySearch International, the world’s largest repository of genealogical records.
FamilySearch will film around 893,000 images containing 8,000,000 baptisms, marriages and burials from across Wales and we will transcribe them. Some of the records date back to the 16th century, making it possible to find Welsh ancestors as far back as the 1500s. The records contain entries in English and Latin.
Our marketing manager, Debra Chatfield (pictured), said: ‘It is fantastic that we will be able to make these records available to search online for the very first time. By making these records available, family history researchers old and new can discover more about their ancestors and where they lived. We are looking forward to working with Welsh Archive Services and FamilySearch on such an important project for Welsh ancestry research.’
Debra Chatfield, findmypast.co.uk's marketing manager
David Rencher, FamilySearch chief genealogical officer, added: ‘Genealogical research in Wales has been very difficult for years and the opening of this amount of data for baptisms, marriages and burials will be a tremendous resource for those with Welsh ancestry. We commend all of those who have worked so diligently to make this happen and in such a dramatic fashion.’
Catherine Richards, county archivist at Powys and chair of the Welsh County Archivists’ Group, commented: ‘We are very excited to work with findmypast.co.uk and FamilySearch to make our parish registers available online. Making our records accessible to as wide an audience as possible is one of the main objectives of Archive Services across Wales. Records of baptisms, marriages and burials are a major resource for family historians and can reveal fascinating and surprising secrets back through the generations.’
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This is the first time that these records will be made available online and you can expect to see them on findmypast.co.uk over the next two years.
The project is taking place with the permission of the Church in Wales and Welsh Archive Services. We are working to digitise the records with FamilySearch International, the world’s largest repository of genealogical records.
FamilySearch will film around 893,000 images containing 8,000,000 baptisms, marriages and burials from across Wales and we will transcribe them. Some of the records date back to the 16th century, making it possible to find Welsh ancestors as far back as the 1500s. The records contain entries in English and Latin.
Our marketing manager, Debra Chatfield (pictured), said: ‘It is fantastic that we will be able to make these records available to search online for the very first time. By making these records available, family history researchers old and new can discover more about their ancestors and where they lived. We are looking forward to working with Welsh Archive Services and FamilySearch on such an important project for Welsh ancestry research.’
Debra Chatfield, findmypast.co.uk's marketing managerDavid Rencher, FamilySearch chief genealogical officer, added: ‘Genealogical research in Wales has been very difficult for years and the opening of this amount of data for baptisms, marriages and burials will be a tremendous resource for those with Welsh ancestry. We commend all of those who have worked so diligently to make this happen and in such a dramatic fashion.’
Catherine Richards, county archivist at Powys and chair of the Welsh County Archivists’ Group, commented: ‘We are very excited to work with findmypast.co.uk and FamilySearch to make our parish registers available online. Making our records accessible to as wide an audience as possible is one of the main objectives of Archive Services across Wales. Records of baptisms, marriages and burials are a major resource for family historians and can reveal fascinating and surprising secrets back through the generations.’
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