Step by Step

5 March 2011 - March 2012

‘I wish I’d started earlier…’ A familiar sentiment among family historians when they first start the journey of tracing their ancestors. Once the process of creating your family tree has begun, it’s like a drug, which gets into your blood.

During the process of researching your ancestors, it’s likely that you may have to visit many local record offices as well as The National Library of Wales. The Library is the main repository for family history research in Wales, holding a vast number of records from all over the country. Useful material for the family historian such as printed books, paintings, maps and manuscripts can be found at the Library. Census returns, nonconformist records and tithe maps, to name but a few, are useful sources, to help all family historians at some point during their research.

The aim of this exhibition is to give a step-by-step introduction to the process of tracing your family tree by displaying some of the main sources available, which are constantly used by family historians.

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