Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society Links

Links Some other Sites of Interest

http://www.genfair.com		Online bookshop, where you can pay for our overseas membership subscriptions and publications by credit card.

http://www.findmypast.co.uk		Offers "pay per view" services including MGS material.

http://www.northwalesbmd.org.uk		The North Wales BMD website containing indexes of births, marriages and deaths from 1837 to about 1950. MGS is a participating society. Montgomeryshire section now complete. Searchable free online.

http://www.powyslandclub.co.uk		The Powysland Club, Montgomeryshire's county historical society (in fact its coverage is much wider) and the oldest such society in Wales. Responsible in particular for its journal since 1867 the Montgomeryshire Collections, "for the collecting and printing, for the use of its members, of the historical, ecclesiastical, genealogical, topographical, and literary remains of Montgomeryshire".

http://blpc.bl.uk		The British Library printed books catalogue. A huge online catalogue. The BL is important for early Welsh books, journals and manuscripts, for which it was the principal repository prior to the establishment of the National Library of Wales in 1907.

http://molcat.bl.uk		The British Library manuscripts catalogue.

http://library.bangor.ac.uk		Bangor University Library. Often overlooked, but important for Welsh material.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue		The National Archives, London. Its catalogue of over 11 million items is searchable online. Probably used most by family historians for 1st World War and other service records (see classes WO/97, WO/363 and WO/364), but an essential source for much else.

http://www.cwgc.org		The Commonwealth War Graves commission. Its huge database of war graves, including those of Welsh service personnel, is searchable online.

http://www.llgc.org.uk		The National Library of Wales. Its catalogue of printed books and many other items of interest are now searchable online.

http://archives.powys.gov.uk		The Powys County Record Office.

http://www.denbighshire.gov.uk/www/dccportal.nsf		The Denbighshire County Record Office.

http://www.churchinwales.org.uk		The Church in Wales website. Provides details of all current churches.

http://www.fhswales.info		The Association of Family History Societies of Wales and some other Welsh family history societies.

http://www.rcahmw.org.uk/		The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, which has a national role in the management of the archaeological, built and maritime heritage of Wales.

http://www.montsoc.org.uk		Site dedicated to the Montgomeryshire Society, founded in 1927 as a social and cultural society for Montgomeryshire people. Main focus is on Montgomeryshire "expats" in London.