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20 Jun 2020

Welsh marriage bonds without going to Family History Centre

You have found that FamilySearch say there is a marriage bond for your forebears. This is great, but you can't get into the library just now. Bit far, long drive, library shut.

You follow the links and then you may just find that there is an excellent index for all Welsh marriage bonds (up to certain point) on discovery.library.wales : you go there and confirm the details. You will particularly need the Diocese (Llandaff, St Davids, Aberhonddu, or the ones in the North)
Go to https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/ and locate the marriage bonds there. These are unindexed images so are currently available to all : this will change so make hay while the sun shines! Some years are not included (1760s in particular). St Davids is often listed under 'Wales'. If you get stuck, ask a friend.

Lastly an image for the bonds! (This is a quick screengrab)
Most of the time the index is more use than the image, but not exclusively so. Mary (shown here) is marrying for the second time. At her first marriage, the bondsman was her step-father: very useful to see his details shown. Happy Bonding!

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