Sunday, 31 May 2015
The Welsh in Patagonia
Hi everyone, thought I'd share this link to an article about 150 years since the first Welsh emigrants set up home in Patagonia in Argentina. Bye for now!
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Learn the Lingo - pre-1837
Pre-1837
We genealogists talk a lot about 1837. It only struck me recently how odd this must seem to people unacquainted with genealogy. On the face of it, 1837 seems to be such an odd year to pick.
In reality, there's a reason why genealogists find post-1837 research much easier than pre-1837. 1837 was the year in which civil registration for births, marriages, and deaths was introduced to England and Wales. Pre-1837 is the period before there was such a thing as a birth certificate, and the same for marriages and deaths. This means we have to rely on parish records (the church or chapel registers of what baptisms, marriages, and burials took place in the church) which are often varied in terms of what information is recorded, or even who was baptised/christened. This is also before the first national census in 1841, leaving us with little choice but to get creative with our research if we're going to get any further back. Any records that do exist start getting notoriously vague!
So, pre-1837 is the genealogist's term for the time before modern records, where research can get quite difficult, particularly if your ancestor's lived in an area with poor record-keeping.
We genealogists talk a lot about 1837. It only struck me recently how odd this must seem to people unacquainted with genealogy. On the face of it, 1837 seems to be such an odd year to pick.
In reality, there's a reason why genealogists find post-1837 research much easier than pre-1837. 1837 was the year in which civil registration for births, marriages, and deaths was introduced to England and Wales. Pre-1837 is the period before there was such a thing as a birth certificate, and the same for marriages and deaths. This means we have to rely on parish records (the church or chapel registers of what baptisms, marriages, and burials took place in the church) which are often varied in terms of what information is recorded, or even who was baptised/christened. This is also before the first national census in 1841, leaving us with little choice but to get creative with our research if we're going to get any further back. Any records that do exist start getting notoriously vague!
So, pre-1837 is the genealogist's term for the time before modern records, where research can get quite difficult, particularly if your ancestor's lived in an area with poor record-keeping.
Monday, 18 May 2015
Just a Note
Hi everyone, I've been very busy, but will hopefully find time to post again some time this week. Hope you're all fine! See you soon!
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
A Political Statement from 1909
'...What measure of success he had attained - he did not say this boastfully, but to encourage others - was due to consistent hard work. He entered public life because he thought it the duty of every citizen to render some service to the parish or the town where he lived, and the greater the privileges they enjoyed in this respect the greater were their responsibilities.'
Cardiff Times, 27 March 1909, detailing a speech made by Alderman Lewis Morgan, Lord Mayor of Cardiff
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