If you’re researching your family history in Wales then you may find the following links useful. Some are Wales specific but most are useful even if your family lived in other parts of the world.
- http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ – probably the best online genealogy site, with access to a huge amount of online data. Subscription required to get the most out of it. Sister site of ancestry.com
- https://www.familysearch.org/ – FamilySearch is a service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their main online search tool can be found here.
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm – search the Family Search database batches directly.
- http://www.familytreesearcher.com/ – family tree search aggregator.
- http://searchgenealogy.net/ – Genealogy Search tool.
- http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ – FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.
- http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/wales/ – Wales Genealogy Links
- http://www.castlegarden.org/ – Ellis Island Immigration Center, search for your family’s arrival in the USA
- http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ – UK Births, Marriages and Deaths links and search
