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[[Wales Genealogy|Wales]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]Church Records | [[Wales Genealogy|Wales]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]Church Records {{Wales-sidebar}} | ||
Church records are an excellent source for accurate information on names, dates, and places of birth, marriage, and burial. Most people who lived in Wales before the mid-nineteenth century are in a church record. Since civil authorities did not begin registering vital records until July 1837, church records are the best source of family information before this date. | Church records are an excellent source for accurate information on names, dates, and places of birth, marriage, and burial. Most people who lived in Wales before the mid-nineteenth century are in a church record. Since civil authorities did not begin registering vital records until July 1837, church records are the best source of family information before this date. | ||
Some church records were destroyed by fire, lost, stolen, defaced, or damaged by dampness or aging. To protect their records, most parishes have deposited their early registers in county record offices. [[Image:Margam Abbey, Glamorgan, Wales.jpg|thumb| | Some church records were destroyed by fire, lost, stolen, defaced, or damaged by dampness or aging. To protect their records, most parishes have deposited their early registers in county record offices. [[Image:Margam Abbey, Glamorgan, Wales.jpg|thumb|float|315x236px]] | ||
== The Church in Wales (Church of England) Records == | == The Church in Wales (Church of England) Records == | ||