For family historians living in Berkshire... and those with Berkshire ancestors
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A unique, fully searchable Berkshire perspective on the First World War — at home and overseas — in a newly compiled CD. With some 12,000 names (officers, other ranks and civilians ), 3,000 locations and 700 organisations, plus images and text. Extensive indexes and bookmarks make seaching simple. More details
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WHEREVER they came from...find them at the society's Research Centre in Reading —Berkshire's foremost facility for family history research. Open to everyone and with KEY ONLINE RESOURCES and help in how to use them.
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Explore the Royal County of Berkshire
Tuesday, 3rd March — Discussion Group - Records before 1837
Friday, 6th March (and most Fridays) — Advice at Thatcham library
Tuesday, 10th March — drop in advice at Bracknell library
Tuesday, 31st March — drop in advice at Wokingham library
In Abingdon, Bracknell, Newbury, Reading, Windsor and Woodley. Visitors always welcome A look ahead to what's on in March
Newbury meeting 11th March Domestic servants
Abingdon Meeting 16th March Death on the Thames
Events from March between the years 1901 and 1930
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WHEREVER they came from...find them at the society's Research Centre in Reading —Berkshire's foremost facility for family history research. Open to everyone and with KEY ONLINE RESOURCES and help in how to use them.
The Genealogist — NEW — first Tithe Maps online (Buckinghamshire, Leicestershire, Middlesex and Surrey) and tithe apportionment records
findmypast — NEW — Trade Union records, life events from North West Kent and Royal Artillery honours and awards — findmypast has many Berkshire Baptisms, Marriages and Burials transcriptions too
British Newspaper Archive - over 10.3 million pages, from 370 old UK newspaper titles, including Berkshire papers. RECENT ADDITION Reading Mercury, 1787
Ancestry too — where you can search WORLDWIDE resources — not just UK
The Centre is in Reading, next to Berkshire Record Office—home of original records of the pre-1974 Royal County—including those of Vale of the White Horse and North Berkshire. FREE on-site parking
Tuesday, 3rd March — Research Centre Discussion Group This month, the group looks at the many other records, besides parish registers, that can take your research successfully back into the 18th century and earlier. Open to all.
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Berkshire Baptisms CD ◊ Details of content and coverage
NEW Berkshire Marriages Third Edition CD ◊ Places and dates
Berkshire Burials CD ◊ Places and dates
Berkshire Maps CD OS 1881-1887 ◊ 51 maps, gazetteer and index
NEW Berkshire and the War Second Edition ◊ More
NEW Berkshire War Memorials CD ◊ Details
Berkshire Probate Index CD 1480-1857 ◊ What wills can tell you
An Historical Atlas of Berkshire ◊ read a review
Berkshire Monumental Inscriptions ◊ Places and dates
Buy at the Research Centre — or buy online)
Join society volunteers to transcribe records of the pre-1974 Royal County of Berkshire and make them more accessible. Present programme
Quality is all. What's the use of unreliable information? Or details that cannot be searched easily and accurately?
Berkshire Family History Society does not publish unchecked material. And almost all Berkshire FHS CDs are fully browsable and searchable, unlike those from some other societies.
If you are willing to check transcriptions against original records held at Berkshire Record Office in Reading, or if you have experience in assembling and building CDs, the society would be pleased to hear from you.
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