How to Get Free Help with Your Family History

How to get Free Help with your Family History

ByDarris G. Williams, AG®

Where can you go for help?

Genukihttp://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/

Genealogy Wisehttp://www.genealogywise.com/

RootsWeb Mailing Listshttp://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

Family History Societieshttp://www.fhswales.org.uk/

FamilySearch wiki: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Wales

HTTP://WWW.GENUKI.ORG.UK/

The main page has quick links

Montgomeryshire"The County of MONTGOMERY is 94 Miles in Circumference, contains about 500000 Acres, is

divided into 7 Hundreds, in which are 6 Market Towns, and only Montgomery sends a Member to Parliament, which is the County Town, 47 Parishes and about 5660 Houses.

HTTP://WWW.GENEALOGYWISE.COM/

Signing up will allow you to be notified of updates and email notification of answers to your questions.

159 different groups for places and names

HTTP://LISTS.ROOTSWEB.ANCESTRY.COM/

Subscribing. Clicking on one of the shortcut links below should work, but if your browser doesn’t understand them, try these manual instructions: to join WALES-LOCAL-HISTORY-L, send email to WALES-LOCAL-HISTORY-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body. To join WALES-LOCAL-HISTORY-D, to the same thing with WALES-LOCAL-HISTORY-D-request@rootsweb.com.

FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES

United States based societies– Welsh American Genealogical Society• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtwags/

– National Welsh-American Foundation• http://www.wales-usa.org/

Welsh Societies– Association of Family History Societies of Wales• http://www.fhswales.org.uk/

– Other Welsh family & local history societies• https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Wales_Societies

Most societies provide a variety of services, some free and some for members only.

Names, places & dates help you find a possible connection; volume & member number help

locate the pedigree.

HTTPS://WWW.FAMILYSEARCH.ORG/

Research Courses

FamilySearch offers a variety of free classes online and in person to help you discover your family tree.

5 Minute Genealogy Episode 5: Choose an Ancestor and Question

More detailed lessons are available.

Get Started

Learning about your ancestors can bring perspective and understanding to your own life. It only takes a few minutes to learn how to get started.

For those who prefer shorter steps

Research Wiki

The Research Wiki is a free collection of family history articles provided by family history enthusiasts from around the world.

Start typing a search term and related topics will appear.

With a page added to your watch list you will be notified by email of any

changes to the page.