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From: "Aidan Jones" <>
Subject: Re: [WLS-CGN] Parish Register
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:56:47 -0000
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Subject: [WLS-CGN] Parish Register


> In a message dated 2/21/04 8:01:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> Kathi:
>
> Re the IGI and the Parish Registers. When the information for the IGI was
> extracted it was not extracted from the Parish Registers of Wales. It was
> extracted from the BT. The Church of Wales will not permit the Mormons to
film the
> Parish Registers but they were able to film the BT because it came from
the
> Public Record Office in London.

No, the BTs were transferred from the individual diocesan registries to the
National Library of Wales in the 1940s. They have never been in the Public
Record Office in London. The BTs "for all the Welsh dioceses were
microfilmed in the early 1950s by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints" (see "Parish Registers of Wales" by C J Williams and J
Watts-Williams). "Many of the early returns went unfilmed, because the
records had not been fully sorted at that stage."

So the BTs were microfilmed at a relatively early date. Maybe it was only
later that the question of allowing the Mormons to microfilm individual
parish records started to receive much wider consideration and thence became
a source of controversy?

Many pre-1837 nonconformist registers (including Blaenpennal Calvinist
Methodist christenings 1813-1837) were transferred to London in the 1840s -
initially being held in the custody of the Registrar General. Since they
were nonconformist records (and at first without official legal status) they
were never included within the BTs. But subsequently (in London) they were
also filmed for the Mormons.

AJ






















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