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GENEALOGICAL VISITATION OF WALES, A.D. 1846,

By the London Genealogical Society, under the Superintendance of a Grand Council of Welsh Heralds, and encouraged by distinguished patronage.

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THE LONDON GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY announces that active arrangements are in progress to hold a VISITATION OF WALES, for the purpose of forming a National Collection of Genealogical Evidence to record and publish, under the heads of the different Counties of England and Wales, the Pedigrees of all Gentry living A.D. 1846. The Society will shortly complete the election of the Council of Welsh Heralds, which will consist of the most distinguished Genealogists, (the Corresponding Members,) under whose special assistance the Work will be carried on. Such Antiquarians, therefore, as are desirous to join the Council should apply immediately'; and it is desirable that the principal families should enrol their names as Patrons to encourage and advance the objects of the Visitation as early as possible; and all such as intend to record any portion of their Pedigrees, should immediately inform the Council of the same, in order that such arrangements may be made as will prevent delay and expenses in this important undertaking. When these arrangements are effected the Society will direct the Genealogist and Deputies to attend each town throughout the Principalities, commencing at Swansea, and giving due notice of their progress-to receive and enter such documents as shall be presented. All Pedigrees will be carefully transcribed in the original form, and discrepancies, corrections, additional evidences, &c., will be supplied as notes, interleaved; together with drawings of all seals and rare subjects, valuable as illustrations, &c. As it will ultimately be important that no persons of respectability should be omitted in the Records of Gentry now living, it is desirable that all such as have not ancient documents-all who have old Genealogical Rolls, but not continued down to the present day, together with such as desire any of their lines of ancestry traced, should prepare the latter portion of their pedigree in this manner, and forward it to the Marshal of the Society.

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