Hello all,
We have made our first inrroads to the Newtown District bmd!
The joint co-ordinators of the project to place the details of the index books maintained
by local registrars on to the North Wales BMD website have advised me that they have added
the following during the last few days.
Newtown Registration District - Births Indexes:
Llanidloes Upper sub-district
1837 - 1896 (7,151 births)
Llanidloes Lower sub-district
1837 - 1896 (7,563 births)
Llanidloes sub-district
1896 - 1950 (6,810 births)
Llanidloes Upper and Lower subdistricts were merged in 1896, and the
combined subdistrict was known as Llanidloes.
Please note that we believe these locally created indexes are more reliable and probably
more useful than the national 'GRO' indexes. Although they are not as prceise in
date terms as they give the 'year' rather than the 'quarter' they are
based on a more restricted geographical area - sub-districts, rather than a whole
district.
Many thanks to the volunteers from Montgomeryshire
Genealogical Society who have assisted me in the photocopying, transcribing and checking
of these indexes. Also to the Registrars who have given me considerable help.
Work is now progressing on the remainder of Montgomeryshire bmd. There are volunteers
currently typing the Newtown index deaths and marriagebooks - many still to be done and
will take a few weks yet! Is there anyone out there who is keen to help typing and is
local to the Welshpool area??
The above index books can now be searched at:
http://www.northwalesbmd.org.uk
http://www.gpmgogleddcymru.org.uk
Pleasse note that there is a list of *all* the updates, in chronological order, at:
www.northwalesbmd.org.uk/update.html
and:
www.northwalesbmd.org.uk/update-c.html
Bryn Ellis, Project manager for Montgomeryshire.