Top 5 Websites for Family History Research

Professional Welsh Genealogist talks about the best FREE websites for doing Family History.
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Websites:
www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
www.genuki.org.uk/
www.ukbmd.org.uk/
www.library.wales/
archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/
archive.org/
Images
A special thanks to the following institutions for their dedication to digitizing historical records. The Public Domain images used in this video are over 100 years old or 70 years has passed since the passing of their creator:
Boston Public Library
Digital Commonwealth
Artvee
Internet Archive
York Museums Trust
ArtUK
Yale Center for British Art
National Library of Wales
Birmingham Museums Trust
Other Images
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Dylan Moore / 2011 / National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / CC BY-SA 2.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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[@owenphillips9166]

Thank you Dai, consistently great content! One of my favourite resources is the National Library of Scotland maps, in particular the 6 inches to a mile maps from the 19th century. It's always nice to pinpoint the location of somewhere an ancestor lived, especially when it ends up being really close to households of other family members.
By the way, thank you for the 1905 photo of the old Cowbridge Girls' Grammar School. Back about 15 years ago I used to be teaching upstairs in that building. Sadly it is now either demolished or about to be.

[@GenealCymru]

Glad you enjoyed :). Great addition with the NLS maps. That's a resource that I really don't use a lot, but probably would get a lot out of. Thanks! And that's so cool about your connection to Cowbridge. I really need to find more sources of old photographs cause I love when people see a place they connect with.

[@mariamerigold]

Very interesting. Thank you 🥰

[@GenealCymru]

Glad you enjoyed :D

[@gopherlyn]

Very Interesting. I did not realize GRO does wills and probates. I am looking for a couple of Wills. Thank you for the information. I would love to go to the Welsh Archives, but being in Canada, at the moment it is not a option.

[@GenealCymru]

Same here. The archives are just too far away sadly. But figuring out how to make do with what's online develops our research skills in ways that access to the abundance of an archive can't. Fingers crossed we get there someday though!

[@kevinjewell233]

Thank you, I visited Cardiff wil zero idea of what to look for nor where to look...

[@GenealCymru]

Oh no. I hope it didn't spoil your trip. It happens. Hopefully next time you make it you'll have a nice detailed plan of what to look at!