Welsh Chapels & Churches

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

Place Names and Surnames

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.