The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth is the Welsh equivalent of The National Archives and the British Library all within one building complex. It is therefore important that the Association keeps in touch with its developments and future plans, and can act as a voice for family historians who use its facilities.

One of CAPEL's aims is to try to ensure, if a Chapel closes, its records are kept safely. It advises the Association for example when a graveyard is to close or to have its headstones removed, giving the member societies the opportunity to ensure details of the monumental inscriptions have been transcribed before such information is lost.

In England, there were originally nine Regional Archive Councils (RACs) covering the country, and the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) had representatives on each of them to act as a two-way conduit between the archives' providers (which included universities, and large private archives, etc, as well as archive offices) and the family historians who used those facilities. Subsequently, the Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC) was set up with nine regional divisions, and most of the RACs were then disbanded. As a result, the FFHS could no longer represent the archives' users in each of the regions at that level.

In Wales, the RACs' equivalent is Archives and Records Council Wales but that is formed solely of archives' providers with archives' users having no voice. The Welsh equivalent of the MLAC is CyMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales (Cymru), which again fails to include users of the archives. The Association is therefore fortunate to be able to rely on the goodwill of the Welsh County Archivists Group in order to keep abreast of developments and to be able to provide feedback and express any concerns to the Group (through the Group's representative to the Association meetings).