Welsh Record Offices and Archives on the Web

Signing the Register by Edmund Blair Leighton.

County Index:

General Information:

See also English Record Offices and Archives on the Web and Scottish Record Offices and Archives on the Web.

Visitors to Record Offices would do well to read the Federation of Family History Societies' online brochure You and Your Record Office.

For a general introduction to record offices and archives, visit the following links from the Historical Manuscripts Commission's Archives in Focus:

• Getting Started
  • Family History
    • Archival Sources

Many country record offices utilize the County Archive Research Network (CARN) to register their visitors. Registering with CARN allows the visitor simplified access to a multitude of record offices.

For more information on repositories in Wales, see ARCHON's Repositories in Wales and Archivesinfo - UK Archival Repositories on the Internet.

For information on libraries with genealogical materials in Wales, see Familia's Library Index for Wales.

Useful books on Record Offices:

Welsh Family History
from Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom or from Amazon.com in the United States.

New to Kew?
from Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom or from Amazon.com in the United States.

Never Been Here Before?
from Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom or from Amazon.com in the United States.

The Family Records Centre
from Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom or from Amazon.com in the United States.

Record Offices - How to Find Them
from Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom or from Amazon.com in the United States.

Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office
from Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom or from Amazon.com in the United States.

Using Record Offices
from Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom or from Amazon.com in the United States.

The National Library of Wales

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales

The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office)

The National Archives

Anglesey

Anglesey County Record Office

See also Library and Archives in the Isle of Anglesey

Brecon

See the Powys County Archives Office

Caernarvon

See the Gwynedd Archives Service 

See also the Conwy Archive Service 

Cardigan

Ceredigion Archives

Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire Archive Service 

Denbighshire

See the Denbighshire Record Office 

See also the Wrexham Archives Service and A.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies & Archives

See also the Conwy Archive Service 

See also Flintshire Record Office 

Flintshire

Flintshire Record Office 

See also the Wrexham Archives Service 

See also theDenbighshire Record Office 

Glamorgan

Glamorgan Record Office / Archifdy Morgannwg

See also the West Glamorgan Archive Service

See also the University of Swansea Library Information Services Archives

Merioneth

See the Gwynedd Archives Service 

Monmouth

See the Gwent Record Office ~ from the Welsh Archives Council

Montgomery

See the Powys County Archives Office

Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire Record Office ~ from the Welsh Archives Council

Radnor

See the Powys County Archives Office