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Radnorshire Genealogy

 
Description

"Radnorshire, inland co. of South Wales; N. and S., 30 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 34 miles; area, 276,552 ac., pop. 23,528. Radnorshire is the smallest of the 6 counties of South Wales. In the E. and S. are some comparatively level tracts, including the Vale of Radnor, but the greater portion of the surface is hilly, or even mountainous, the Forest of Radnor reaching in its highest summit an elevation of 2163 ft."
from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles 1887
Genuki - Radnorshire
Genuki is the largest collection of research information
on the net for UK
Neighbouring Counties
 
Shropshire, Herefordshire, Breckonshire, Cardiganshire
Radnorshire GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information
Archives and Libraries
 
Powys Archives The National Library of Wales
 
Radnorshire Lookup Exchange
request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
 
Cyndi's List - Radnorshire
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web
 




Genealogy Record Sources

many of these sites can provide source record information of ancestors:
 
Directories
huge resource by University of Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
800 Million Name UK Database
search 800 million UK (including Wales) records in over 60 individual databases
Births, Deaths, Marriages
search over 100 million UK births, deaths and marriages
 
Message Boards
post and read about Radnorshire genealogy with other researchers
 
Cemeteries

Parish Registers

free internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records,
which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers
 
War Memorials
Roll-of-Honour - Radnorshire
Radnorshire war memorials and rolls of honour
 
 
England & Wales Free BMD Marrriage Index 1837-1915
free access to the Civil Registration index
of Marriages for England and Wales
Censuses
1841-1891 Census transcriptions by volunteers
 
 


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