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    Ancestry adds workhouse registers from Glamorgan

    Oct 19, 2021 2 minutes

    Almost 883,000 workhouse records from the county of Glamorgan in South Wales are now available on Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk).

    The new collection, ‘Glamorgan, Wales, Workhouse Registers, 1850–1920’ is the largest collection of Welsh workhouse records available online.

    They were digitised after Ancestry began

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