Berkshire Family History Society
Help for all family historians
wherever your ancestors came from
page last reviewed and revised 8 May 2012
Find out more Buy the Berkshire Probate Index CD
All Berkshire parishes by Poor Law Union (administrative districts of civil registration and of censuses from 1841 onwards)
Discover what is available for all researchers (not just Berkshire)
Browse the catalogue Search the catalogue
OVER 33,000 distinct SURNAMES, 450,000 named persons, 140,000 transcriptions. 20 PARISHES ADDED (easy to search with Adobe Reader 7.0 or above - copy supplied) just £20 (update from First Edition £5) + p & p for online/mail orders Find out more
to 30 June 2013 - at a discounted rate Membership brings many benefits Discover more
These articles will help you... and Web Links have been updated too
at outreach events and meetings too - follow links
Tuesday 8 May - Advice at Bracknell and Lower Earley
Wednesday 16 May - NEW - Cox Green Library
Saturday 19 May - NEW - Faringdon Library
Tuesday 29 May - More help at Mortimer and Wokingham
BERKSHIRE PARISH RECORDS
Parish Records Collection of Findmypast . You can use Findmypast at the Research Centre Records of pre-1974 Berkshire are held at Berkshire Record Office including those of the Vale of the White Horse and North Berkshire
OVER 47,000 distinct SURNAMES, 773,000 transcriptions of records from over 230 churchyards, cemeteries and burial grounds of pre-1974 Berkshire. Updates for older editions available. Easy to search by name, place and date (with Adobe Reader 7.0 or above - copy supplied)
Buy Berkshire Burials 10th Edition Learn more about this CD
9 May - Newbury - Tudor Newbury
16 May - Woodley - A Second World War incident at sea
18 May - Bracknell - Huguenot ancestry
21 May - Abingdon - Common lodging houses
29 May - Windsor - Researching Irish ancestors
31 May - Reading - Finding domestic servants
Notice of Annual General Meeting - 26 June at Windsor
INTERACTIVE MAPS with links to parishes and articles
plus REGULAR FEATURES
- DISCUSSION LIST - all topics - not just Berkshire
- searchable Discussion List archive
- summaries of Meetings you missed
- definitive Berkshire gazetteer
- 9,500 SURNAMES - Surname Interests
- 35,000 names - Ancestral charts
Berkshire Family Historian - about the magazine
read a copy (and 100 more in the Members' Area)
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Berkshire Marriages - Second Edition - Find out more
Berkshire Burials - 10th Edition - Find out more
Berkshire OS Maps 1881 - 1887 - First Edition - Find out more
AVAILABLE NOW - Berkshire Probate Index - Find out more
Berkshire Archdeaconry probate records 1480 - 1857 - over 9,000 distinct surnames
Order online for £9.25 from the General Register Office. It costs £10 for a copy certificate from a Local Register Office (using a local reference or event date, of course). Ignore any company or website that tries to charge you more. Use BerkshireBMD to find local references for Reading and Bradfield Registration Districts and UKBMD for elsewhere in the UK.
The society has transcribed many Berkshire Parish Registers and Monumental Inscriptions but there are more to do. Why not join in and help to make even more of Berkshire's records readily accessible?
Work can be done out of county - even out of country! But essential checking of indexes and transcriptions against original records takes place in Reading at Berkshire Record Office Find out more
Put your specialist skills and knowledge to good use and join the team - get in touch today
Research your ancestry in Reading - and that's worldwide, in the UK, even in Berkshire - search Findmypast, FreeBMD, Berkshire BMD and Ancestry Library Edition (not just UK) and explore more resources in CD, microform and print
Australia, Ireland, London, Yorkshire - wherever they came from - at the Centre you can delve into your family history - and get friendly help and advice from society members should you need it. So come and explore births, marriages, deaths, census returns, parish records, maps, directories, military records, migration records and much more
Browse or search 7,000+ library items ~ summarised here ~ for every Berkshire item, there are four that relate to UK or overseas locations. Opening times
The Centre is next to Berkshire Record Office - home of original records for pre-1974 Berkshire - there's FREE on site parking too
NOTE: The Research Centre will be closed on Tuesday 5 June
page last reviewed and revised 8 May 2012
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