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=== Wales Research Strategies ===
=== Wales Research Strategies ===


Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Wales
Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Wales  


Emigration: [[Find_a_Welsh_Emigrant_or_Immigrant_from_Wales_Record_Selection_Guide|Record Selection Guide]]<br>Key Online Record Set: [http://cat.llgc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?skin=profeb&lng=en Welsh Probates]
Emigration: [[Find a Welsh Emigrant or Immigrant from Wales Record Selection Guide|Record Selection Guide]]<br>Key Online Record Set: [http://cat.llgc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?skin=profeb&lng=en Welsh Probates]  


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=== Wales Research Tips  ===


=== Wales Research Tips ===
*Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. [[Wales Census|Search Wales Censuses.]]
*Cemetery records (including burial records, monumental or memorial inscriptions), sometimes provide birth, marriage, death, and occupational information. They sometimes give clues to military service, residence, and cause of death. &nbsp;[[Wales Cemeteries|Cemetery Records]].


*Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. [[Wales_Census|Search Wales Censuses.]]
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*Cemetery records (including burial records, monumental or memorial inscriptions), sometimes provide birth, marriage, death, and occupational information. They sometimes give clues to military service, residence, and cause of death. &nbsp;[[Wales_Cemeteries|Cemetery Records]].

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Wales Research Strategies[edit | edit source]

Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Wales

Emigration: Record Selection Guide
Key Online Record Set: Welsh Probates


Wales Research Tips[edit | edit source]

  • Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. Search Wales Censuses.
  • Cemetery records (including burial records, monumental or memorial inscriptions), sometimes provide birth, marriage, death, and occupational information. They sometimes give clues to military service, residence, and cause of death.  Cemetery Records.