Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry is a follow-up guide to Welsh Family History [previously reviewed on this blog]. Like its predecessor, this book is a compendium of research guides written by different authors, each an expert in his/her own area of specific research. This “Second Stages” guide goes beyond beginner levels taught in the first book, taking the shared knowledge of the contributors to help broaden the reader’s research skills.
The book is largely based on talks given over several years by the individual authors. According to the editors, the majority of these lessons can be divided into five major categories:
- Religion and Society
- Industry and Occupations
- Documents and Specialist Studies
- People and Places
- The Welsh at Home and in the Professions
The editors and authors in this book express, sometimes at length, the differences between Welsh and English cultures as developed over the centuries. These differences effect the manner and approach the reader should take in their research. Even if the reader has a practiced knowledge in English research, this guide will explain the differences necessary to successfully finding one’s Welsh ancestors.
List of Figures and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributing Authors
Forward
Chapter 1 Religion and Society in Nineteenth Century Wales by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones
Chapter 2 Catholics in Wales by Michael Gandy
Chapter 3 A Clergyman in the Family by Sheila Rowlands
Chapter 4 Indicators of Nonconformist Ancestry by John Rowlands
Chapter 5 Urban Growth and Industrialisation in Wales by Sandra Wheatley
Chapter 6 People in Mining and Metals: The Llanelli Area by Malcolm Symons
Chapter 7 Great Endeavor for Little Reward: Lead Miners in Wales by John Rowlands
Chapter 8 Reading Old documents: Strategies for Success by Susan J. Davies
Chapter 9 Using Peter Bartrum’s Welsh Genealogies by Michael Powell Siddons
Chapter 10 Sources for Surname Studies by Sheila Rowlands
Chapter 11 The Homes of Surnames in Wales by John Rowlands
Chapter 12 An English Settlement in Western Montgomeryshire during the Tudor Period by Murry Ll. Chapman
Chapter 13 Ordinary People in the Records of the Great Estates by Graham C.G. Thomas
Chapter 14 An Introduction to Maps of Wales for Family Historians by Sandra Wheatley
Chapter 15 The National Monuments Record of Wales by Hilary Malaws
Chapter 16 Writing an Estate and Family History: The Vaughans of Trawsgoed by Gerald Morgan
Chapter 17 The Rise of a Native Middle Class: The Pugh Family of Llanfair and Llanbedr, 1775–1900 by Lewis W. Lloyd
Chapter 18 The Welsh in the Professions by Sheila Rowlands
Chapter 19 The Lloyds of Ty Newydd: A Study of a North Wales Family by John Dilwyn Williams
Chapter 20 Morris Reignald, Gentleman, 1606–1678: Sheep Farmer in North Cardiganshire by Helen M. Kaznowski
Chapter 21 Titus Jones of Llanfihangel-ar-arth by Marion Martin
Chapter 22 ‘Baron’ Lewis Owen of Dolgellau and his Descendants by E. Mary Hartley
Index
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