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Some Denbighshire Resources
To help you find things more quickly, we have grouped the resources into categories.
Not all resources can be ordered into single categories, so please check carefully,
what the other 'categories' are offering.
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General Resources
Denbighshire GENUKI pages
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/DEN/
Denbighshire familysearch.wiki pages
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Denbighshire
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Denbighshire
Denbighshire Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denbighshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Denbighshire
County Websites, Archives, Libraries, Museums, Local History Groups and Societies
Denbighshire County Council
http://www.denbighshire.gov.uk
Pages:
Denbighshire Museums and Heritage
http://www.denbighshire.gov.uk/en-gb/DNAP-72BGVY
Denbighshire Record Office
http://www.denbighshire.gov.uk/en-gb/DNAP-6ZQKTQ
Denbighshire Heritage Service
http://www.denbighshire.gov.uk/en-gb/DNAP-6ZQMPH
Clwyd FHS Website
http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/
Clwyd FHS Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFHSociety
Directories
Books, Newspapers, Magazines and other Media
Churches, Graveyards and Memorial Inscriptions (MI)
Census Records
freeCEN 1861 Census (Coverage: 54.8% / Jan. 2011)
freeCEN 1871 Census (Coverage: 89.7% / Jan. 2011)
freeCEN 1891 Census (Coverage: 70.8% / Jan. 2011)
http://freecen.rootsweb.com/
Vital Records (BMD)
including Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials, from civil and parish records.
Images and Photos
Maps and Land Records
Digital Archives Association maps of Denbighshire and Flintshire.
http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
Not online but I would recommend the Digital Archives Association maps of Denbighshire and Flintshire.
The DVD has the first edition 6-inch map from 1869-1875 as well as the second edition for the main towns at 25-inch.
Schools, Workhouses and other Institutions
Denbighshire Workhouses
http://www.workhouses.org.uk
Left Hand Side of Page: Workhouse Locations > Welsh Poor Law Unions > Denbighshire
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For some more resources enter Denbighshire genealogy and Denbighshire family history in your favourite search-engines.
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Some Denbighshire Resources
To help you find things more quickly, we have grouped the resources into categories.
Not all resources can be ordered into single categories, so please check carefully,
what the other 'categories' are offering.
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Miscellaneous
The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
http://www.cpat.org.uk/
We are one of the four Welsh Archaeological Trusts working to help protect, record and interpret all aspects of the historic landscape.
Find out about archaeology in central and north eastern Wales by browsing through our website. You are sure to find something of interest - whether you are a professional, amateur or student archaeologist, a farmer, a site developer, a pupil or teacher at school, a tourist or just interested in your local archaeology and history.
Some CPAT Project reports:
http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/longer.htm
http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/recent/past/past.htm
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Denbighshire Church Survey
http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/denbigh/idxdenb.htm
Names from Clwyd (Parish Registers)
http://www.clwydsurnames.org.uk (http://www.clwydsurnames.org.uk) updated 2016
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Some Denbighshire Resources
To help you find things more quickly, we have grouped the resources into categories.
Not all resources can be ordered into single categories, so please check carefully,
what the other 'categories' are offering.
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Local Resources (Places, Parishes, ... )
Some of these sites may include census data, parish registers, MIs, images and other data sources.
Coedpoeth
Coedpoeth Chapel Registers
http://www.scribd.com/wilcoxon92
As Parish records online site www .the-red-zone.co.uk/ seems to have gone 'offline' I've put the Wern Registers and some others on Scribd.
The formatting hasn`t transferred too well from my PC to Published Documents, ::) but it`s the best I can do. ???
Garthgarmon
Capel Garmon census returns for 1871
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~alwyn/Garthgarmon1871/ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~alwyn/Garthgarmon1871/)
There is a partial transcription of Capel Garmon census returns for 1871, comprising of the township of Garthgarmon (Llanrwst Enumeration Districts 9/10/11)
It will be added to over the next few months to cover the whole of the Llanrwst Enumeration Districts.
LLangollen
The Making of the Vale of Llangollen and Eglwyseg Historic Landscape
http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/llangoll/vlindu.htm
Llangollen Museum
http://www.llangollenmuseum.org.uk/english/home.htm
This site has two design styles. There are also pages about early history, people, places, schools, life & leisure, stories, myths & legends, farming & rural life, llangollen in uniform, churches chapels & religion, road rail & canal, shops & businesses, mills & other industries, mining & quarrying, etc.
I can't find a link from the home page, but they can be reached from links on the individual pages.
e.g. mills & other industries
http://www.llangollenmuseum.org.uk/english/History/mills.htm
LLanrwst
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Llanrwst/
Ruthin
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Ruthin/
Wrexham
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Wrexham/
Wrexham Marriage Index A searchable Database of marriages in Wrexham.
http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/community/genealogy/MarriageIndexSearchForm.cfm
Book: History of the Parish Church at Wrexham
see Topic: History of the Parish Church of Wrexham
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,50063.0.html
Wrexham County Borough Churches and Graveyards
http://www.openchurchnetwork.co.uk/index.asp
Great link!......online searchable graveyards of the following churches....
Bangor on Dee (St. Dunawd`s Church)
Bettisfield (St. John the Baptist`s Church)
Bronington (Holy Trinity Church)
Chirk (St. Mary`s Church)
Erbistock (St. Hilary`s Church)
Gresford (All Saints Church)
Hanmer (St Chad`s Church)
Holt (St. Chad`s Church)
Marchwiel (St. Marcella`s Church)
Overton (St. Mary The Virgin Church)
Rossett (Christ Church)
Ruabon (St Mary`s Church)
Tallarn Green (St. Mary Magdalene`s Church)
Worthenbury (St. Deiniol`s Church)
Wrexham (St. Giles Church)
Wrexham (St. Mary`s Cathedral)
See also Topic: LINK - Wrexham County Borough Churches and Graveyards.....
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,252999.0.html
Monumental Inscription Indexes
http://www.tom-mercer-mi-indexes.org.uk/
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The resources here have been compiled from topics submitted by RootsChatters.
:) Many thanks to everyone who has contributed. :)
New Resources:
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Some Denbighshire Resources
To help you find things more quickly, we have grouped the resources into categories.
Not all resources can be ordered into single categories, so please check carefully,
what the other 'categories' are offering.
_________________________________________________________________________
Local Resources (Places, Parishes, ... )
Some of these sites may include census data, parish registers, MIs, images and other data sources.
________________________________________________________
The resources here have been compiled from topics submitted by RootsChatters.
:) Many thanks to everyone who has contributed. :)
New Resources:
If you know of any useful resources that can be included here, please start a new topic, and a moderator will transfer the link to this topic.