We learned at the Celtic Connections Conference just how many folks have at least a little Welsh ancestry. If you're among them, you'll be interested in this news from Findmypast.

Over 921,000 new records have been added to a variety of Welsh Parish collections. Additional parish baptisms, banns, marriages and burials are now available to search across 13 county collections, including:

Wales Counties Baptisms

*        Carmarthenshire Baptisms

*        Cardiganshire Baptisms

*        Denbighshire Baptisms

*        Flintshire Baptisms

*        Breconshire Baptisms

*        Radnorshire Baptisms

*        Montgomeryshire Baptisms

*        Pembrokeshire Baptisms

*        Glamorganshire Baptisms

*        Merionethshire Baptisms

*        Anglesey Baptisms

*        Monmouthshire Baptisms

Wales Counties Banns & Marriages

*        Anglesey Marriages and Banns

*        Breconshire Marriages and Banns

*        Caernarvonshire Marriages and Banns

*        Cardiganshire Marriages and Banns

*        Carmarthenshire Marriages and Banns

*        Denbighshire Marriages and Banns

*        Flintshire Marriages and Banns

*        Glamorganshire Marriages and Banns

*        Monmouthshire Marriages and Banns

*        Montgomeryshire Marriages and Banns

*        Pembrokeshire Marriages and Banns

*        Radnorshire Marriages and Banns

Wales Counties Burials

*        Carmarthenshire Burials

*        Cardiganshire Burials

*        Denbighshire Burials

*        Flintshire Burials

*        Breconshire Burials

*        Radnorshire Burials

*        Montgomeryshire Burials

*        Pembrokeshire Burials

*        Merionethshire Burials

*        Anglesey Burials

*        Glamorganshire Burials

Findmypast continues, "Parish records will give names, dates and places in similar fashion to the GRO birth, marriage and death records, but the level of detail within a parish record depends largely on what was recorded on the original. Most parish records do not include accompanying images. Information in earlier registers can differ with some recording baptisms, marriages and burials together on the page, some keeping them separate. Some can be more informative than others, depending almost at whim on what the vicar chose to note down. They can, however, be a very valuable key documents that unlock the history of your family to a time you may not have thought it was possible to reach when you originally began to trace your family line."