Saturday, June 03, 2006

Next stop National records


Putting the bones together and making the family links

In 1855 the parish registers of the Church of Scotland were brought in to a central register. This coincided with the start of the General register in January 1855. This register plus the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has resulted in a huge bank of records for the families of Presbyterians. Welsh records are at local level and National library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

You may need old maps to refresh your memory on which counties of the UK covered the area you are interested. Keep searching you never know what you might uncover good or bad.