On the individual parish pages are details of non-conformist chapels in each parish. The data shown there is based on various sources but principally these
- Rawlins, B.J. The Parish Churches and Nonconformist Chapels of Wales: Their Records and where to Find them, Vol. One, Cardigan - Carmarthen - Pembroke.(1987).
- Coflein - the online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW) - the national collection of information about the historic environment of Wales
Dyfed FHS have photographs and data relating to various churches and chapels on their site
England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index Marriages 1754 - 1837 on Tinstaafl Transcripts - Work in progress
A large number - well over 50% by the mid-nineteenth century - of people in Carmarthenshire attended Nonconformist chapels, rather than the established church. Thus, except for marriages which prior to 1837 had to take place in the parish church, references to them are more likely to be found in nonconformist than in parish church records. Many of these have been deposited at the PRO (and filmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), others are still to be found with the chapels or other libraries or archives.
Virtually all completed parish registers have been deposited in either the Carmarthenshire Record Office or the National Library of Wales. Bishop's Transcripts and Marriage Licenses are held at the National Library of Wales - and have been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Many Parish register indexes, and indexes of baptisms, marriages and burials are available on microfiche from Dyfed FHS. From 7/2001 these now include
- The 'Merlin Indexes', the scope of the latter often equate with the additional items shown under Church Records on the separate parish pages as "Copy ts PR index................".
- Vaccination records for several parishes
National Library of Wales An online searchable index of Marriage Bonds and Allegations. It contains details of some 90,000 marriages by licence which took place in Wales between 1616 and 1837. In early 2016 the NLW made changes in its online catalogue and now the only apparent method of finding these bonds is to search the main catalogue
The Dyfed FHS has indexed all marriages for the period 1812-1837, and provides a postal lookup service. Published copies of the index, in sets of parishes grouped by hundreds, are available.
Family Search UK/Ireland - Historical Record Collections
IGI Batch Numbers - Hugh Wallis's site and Archer Software's site
Parish Register Copies for Carmarthenshire in the Library of the Society of Genealogists.
