Welcome to our Welsh Genealogy Service website!

Are you looking for a dedicated Family Historian to research your Family history, as they would their own?

St-Samlet, Llansamlet
Copyright © Jill Muir

Do you want someone to research your ancestry, tracing your family certificates of birth, marriage and death, parish registers, wills, Land Tax, and other documents or search for a named particular document?

Would you prefer to do your own research using our Indexes on purchasable CDs?

If these are things you require, then you are in the right place.

Lynn John and Jennie Newman formed L & J Research Services in 1999 to provide
research services in the County of Glamorgan. Between us we have over 45 years
of experience in family history.

Photograph of the Centotaph, Llandaff village

Some years ago, we realised how much family and community historians appreciated indexes. Since that time, our project has been the indexing as many records as we can, and publishing them in CD format. At present, we have indexed nearly all the Parish registers of Marriage deposited with Glamorgan Archives (1837-1900). This is an ongoing project, as our aim is to reach the years leading up to 1935.

As any genealogist or local historian will appreciate, these indexes are an invaluable aid to tracing family history in Glamorgan, where because of the early patronymics, giving rise to the many named Thomas, Williams and Jones, and the non-conformity in Wales, searching ancestors can be slightly more difficult than in England. A Welsh family historian needs all the help he or she can get, and our indexes have proved very helpful to very many.

Currently we are transcribing the Marriages and Births registers in Cardiff; Merthyr Tydfil; Pontypridd and Caerphilly Registry Offices.

Details of the CDs are available on our Publications page and how to purchase our CDs is to be found on the Contacts page.

All visitors, inland and overseas to our webpage, are able to purchase our CDs via secure payment.