Until 1974, all the parishes named above were in the historical county of Berkshire (except those marked with a *) and the original records are in the Berkshire Record Office. The information on these discs has been scanned from the best available copy of the transcript and should only be used as a finding aid for the entries in the original parish registers.

The data on these CDs should be used like a book or microfiche. First click on a parish, then on the contents page click on an index, scroll through the alphabet to your entry and note the year. Using the tags ‘Bookmarks’ and ‘Thumbnails’, navigate to the register and scroll up or down to find the date of the entry you require and note the details. The data is in the form of a PDF file (which has limited search facilities) and is read by Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 4 or later. An up-to-date version can be downloaded from either CD. [JD Sep 2003]