Welsh ancestry

Discover if you have Welsh ancestry with the help of this list of the best Welsh ancestry websites from family history magazine Who Do You Think You Are?

Find your Welsh Ancestry. Here are links to our guides to the main British genealogy record sets that you need to find your roots.

If you’ve come across a Jones, Evans or Davies in your family tree, chances are you have Welsh ancestry. But what’s the history and meaning behind these traditional Welsh surnames? Read on to find out.

We’ll let you in on search secrets to find your English and Welsh ancestors in UK census records.

The Welsh descended from the Celtic tribes of Europe. It has been posited that the Beaker Folk came to Wales from central Europe in around 2000BC. They brought with them rudimentary knives and axes made from metals. Though today there are theories that rather than coming from the East, the Celts came from the West,

Welsh people could lay claim to be the most ancient Britons, according to scientists who have drawn up a genetic map of the British Isles.

Don’t know your isotopes from your autosomal DNA? Worry not – Historic UK is here to help you through the maze of tracing your very...

Some are unusual and others are downright weird. We spoke to Cadw about Christmas traditions in Wales from yesteryear

Map o Gymru - Map of Wales

The Ordovices, Silures, Demetae, Gangani, and Deceangli are the five ancient Welsh tribes that occupied Wales during the Roman invasion.