I have joined MonGenes, having been completely open about my involvement with the Glamorgan List, FreeBMD and Glamorgan FHS. The Mongenes database of parish record transcriptions is password protected. It is well organised and it is possible to see what parishes are covered, for what events, and for what dates. The search facility is useful and produces results in a helpful form. I was pleasantly surprised to find the marriage of my great-grandmother's brother, and the baptisms of most of his children, in parishes I would not have thought of looking in. I do not know whether all the data that used to be on Mike John's site is now on Mongenes. I suspect not. I see that there seem to be some Monmouthshire transcriptions appearing on FreeReg, the most obvious place to put parish register transcriptions which can be freely searched by anyone. FreeReg provides information about which parishes are transcribed, for what dates. Familysearch.org also has quite a selection of Monmouthshire parish records. You start by 'browse by location' and 'United Kingdom and Ireland' on the home page, then select 'Wales' and then you find 'Wales,Monmouthshire Parish Records' . The coverage is a bit patchy, and it is not easy to find which parishes are covered and over what dates. In most cases the data is free, but in some cases you only seem to find a year for an event, and have to look at the findmypast image to see the full data. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Menu takes you into the IGI records held on Familysearch, parish by parish with years shown. This link does not show the full extent of registers available from Familysearch via the 'Wales,Monmouthshire Parish Records' dataset. Another place to look for a few transcriptions of parish registers is The Ogre at http://www.cefnpennar.com/ I suspect that the cost of maintaining the large numbers of images of gravestones that used to be on that site may have proved excessive, so some datasets are now being sold to maintain the site. He now has some Monmouthshire Catholic records. What does not seem to exist for any county that I am aware of is a total list of what parish registers are available, where, either for free or by subscription. Such a list would be valuable, as it might prevent the same records being transcribed repeatedly - like Llandenny baptisms, where my great-grandmother's cousins appear in a variety of searchable sources. Jeff list admin, Glamorgan list ----- Original Message ----- From: "ann" <annmacey@ntlworld.com> To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [MON] Query re Mike John's site > Hi Jane, > > The contents of the site have been taken over by a group of nine new > owners. They have moved the data to the MonGenes Yahoo group and you have > to apply for membership to that group. > > I applied and was refused because - and I quote from the email I received > > "We have denied your application because our approach is totally different > to that of GFHS. We aim to make as much data as possible available free > of charge." > > The GFHS mentioned is Gwent Family History Society. This is not strictly > true because you have to be a member of the group to use the information > and while they do not charge a fee for joining, they do refuse to let > family historians join if they are members of Gwent Family History > Society – unless I have it totally wrong and it is just me they are > refusing. That approach IS totally different to GFHS who let anybody join. > Ann Macey > > List Admin

Jeff Coleman wrote: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Menu takes you into the IGI records held on Familysearch, parish by parish with years shown. This link does not show the full extent of registers available from Familysearch via the 'Wales, Monmouthshire Parish Records' dataset. =============== Dear Jeff, As always, your suggestions are valuable aids to resources in our never-ending searches for Welsh ancestors. In particular you mentioned the Hugh Wallis site for IGI Batch Numbers. I wondered if you and other Listers have come across a rather newer version of this IGI batch number business at www.Archersoftware.co.uk A click on 'Links' in the navigation column on the left of the homepage reveals a list that includes IGI Batch Numbers plus an update on all the recent changes in the IGI and an updated version of Hugh Wallis's Batch Numbers. Click on 'Wales' to bring up a useful clickable county map, a valuable feature for finding Welsh batch numbers. Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales, UK E-mail: john@jlb2011.co.uk Personal Homepage: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/walespic/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/wales/ Joint Webmaster, Breconshire Local & Family History Society http://www.blfhs.co.uk/ GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ Administrator - Powys (& BRE/MGY/RAD) RootsWeb mailing lists