Welsh Chapels and Churches Links
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Here are some helpful links to other like webpages. The first area has fuller details about the background of chapels and churches and other web pages where images of these religious buildings are shown.
Gareth Hicks has a most helpful Genuki page with fuller details of the church and chapels shown on this Welsh Chapels & Churches website.
Links to Background Information on Chapels and Churches
- 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 Chapels Database ~ data of non-conformist chapels in Glamorgan.
- Glamorgan Archives ~ [GlamRO] ~ holds detailed information on Nonconformist Registers and Parish Registers and is the Archive Office for the County Borough Councils of Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Vale of Glamorgan and the City and County of Cardiff
- West Glamorgan Archive Service ~ has detailed information about Non-conformist Chapels and Churches and is the Archive Office for the City and County of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
- The Glamorgan Family History Society ~ published transcripts of Chapels and Churches registers.
- The National Library of Wales ~ extensive collections of Parish and Chapels registers.
Other Chapels and Churches websites
- John Ball's Welsh Chapels and Churches site
- Capel ~ The Chapels Heritage Society
- Capel Newsletter - a pdf download of Newsletter 28
- Alan George's Old Merthyr Tydfil ~ Chapels & churches in Merthyr Tydfil
- Merthyr Tydfil Historic Trust ~chapels in Merthyr Tydfil
- Pillars of Faith ~ Remembrance of Nonconformist and other chapels in The Rhondda
- Aberavon Historical Friends ~The Churches and Chapels of Aberafan
- Anglicans Online - Wales The Church in Wales has been a separate province since 1920.
Place Names and Surnames
- Deric John's Place Names ~ Some place-names in South Wales.
- Glamorgan Families site ~ Surnames Interest website, Teuluoedd Morgannwg/ Glamorgan Families.
- Online Welsh Names website ~ a list of surnames of pre 1974 Welsh counties.
- 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
- Map of Glamorgan ~showing parishes of Glamorgan, with the start date of their parish registers.
- Llanelli Historical Society - researching and promoting Llanelli history.
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.