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Welsh Family History Guide

I often get e-mails from people tracing their family history in Tredegar or Wales. To help with this I am placing information on this page.

Civil registration of births marriages and death began in England and Wales  in 1837. Previous to this  parish records were kept. This information will be examined later.

The Public Records Office has a web site with information leaflets etc. on how to proceed, in the UK, to find genealogical information. They have a WEB site on the following link:

Public Records Office.

Copies of all registers of births, deaths and marriages are in the custody of the Registrar General and all have been indexed. The indexes are arranged alphabetically in quarterly volumes and are available for public inspection free of charge at:

The Family History Centre
Family Records Centre
1 Myddelton Street Islington
London EC1R 1UW

Certified copies of entries in the registers themselves can be purchased by personal callers or by post. All postal applications for certificates should be made to:

The General Register Office
Smedley Hydro
Trafalgar Road
Southport
Merseyside
PR8 2HH

The General Register Office has a WEB site where you can get application forms, in 'Microsoft Word' Format, for birth, marriage and death cirtificate's after 1837. The WEB site is on the following link:

General Register Office.

Sites where you can find information in Wales before 1837 for all the counties in Wales is in the form of a 'map' on the following link.

Information Before 1837