Welsh Interest Group
Description
This group is for QFHS members addressing the particular challenges of researching families in Wales. You will find us friendly, enthusiastic, and welcoming.
Our meetings usually feature a short talk or presentation, and there is always opportunity for discussion of a brick wall or a tricky research problem.
If you're unravelling your Davies, Evans, Jones, Williams or other Welsh families, then this is the group for you.
If your family hails from one of the historic counties of Anglesey, Brecknock, Caernarfon, Ceredigion, Carmarthen, Denbigh, Flint, Glamorgan, Merioneth, Monmouth, Montgomery, Pembroke or Radnor, then this is also the group for you.
Meetings
The group meets on the third Sunday in January, March, May, July, September, and November between 10.00 am and 12.00 noon. Presently we are meeting online using Zoom - email the convenor for details.
Next Meetings:
Convenors
Resources
Click on the highlighted words for an overview of the Welsh special interest group and researching the Welsh.
This list of the Family History Societies in Wales and the areas they cover may be useful.
You may enjoy these Welsh-oriented books and research guides: Booklist
Presentations from previous meetings available for QFHS members:
| 2025 | Focus on Caernarfonshire |
| 2025 | Hints and tips for researching in Wales |
| 2024 | Focus on Montgomeryshire |
| 2024 | Focus on Carmarthenshire |
| 2024 | Drove roads from Wales |
| 2023 | Focus on Anglesey |
| 2023 | Focus on Flintshire |
| 2023 | More about Glamorganshire |
| 2023 | Researching in Glamorganshire |
| 2022 | Researching with patronymics - a case study |
| 2021 | Welsh comings and goings (migration) |
| 2021 | Researching in Monmouthshire |
| 2020 | Finding records in Wales |
| 2020 | Researching the Welsh using Ancestry |
| 2020 | Researching Welsh using FamilySearch |
| 2020: | Indexes: tips and traps |
| 2019: | Tracing Welsh ancestry: some links |
| 2019: | A Glamorgan family bible |
| 2019: | Researching the Welsh in Findmypast |
| 2019: | Welsh naming conundrums |
| 2019: | Exploring Welsh family history: an overview |
| 2018: | Key events in Welsh history |
| (more coming soon...) |