Media: BOOK - paperback, 288 pages
Author: B. Durie
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9780752465999
Other: b&w photos, tables, index
Publisher: The History Press

Welsh genealogy is usually included with its English cousin, but there are significant differences between the two, and anyone wishing to trace their Welsh ancestry will encounter peculiarities that are not covered by books on English family history. There is a separate system of archives and repositories for Wales, there are differences in civil registration and censuses, Nonconformist registers are dissimilar to those of other Churches and Welsh surnames and place names are very different to English ones.

Welsh Genealogy covers all of this as well as the basic Welsh needed by family historians; estate, maritime, inheritance, education and parish records; peculiarities of law; the Courts of Great Sessions and particular patterns of migration.

Written by Dr Bruce Durie, the highly respected genealogist. lecturer and author of the acclaimed 'Scottish Genealogy', this is the ideal book for local and family historians setting out on a journey to discover their Welsh ancestry.

Contents:
Preface
1. An Introduction to Genealogical Research
2. The Welsh - A Genealogists' Perspective
3. Welsh Surnames
4. Administrative Areas and Local Records
5. The Welsh Censuses of 1841 to 1911
6. Statutory Registers of Birth, Marriage and Death Post-1855
7. Parish Registers Pre-1837
8. Nonconformist and Other Church Records
9. Welsh Emigration and Immigration
10. Taxation and Representation
11. Welsh Heraldry
12. Dates, Money and Measure
13. Occupations and Professions
14. Military Records
15. Welsh Language for Genealogy
16. Organising Your Research
17. Degrees of Kinship
Envoi
Index