Latest news and information

• 25 August - Thank you to everyone who came to meet us in Ascot - at the Ascot Project event and later, at the Durning Library. Why not take a look at the Research Centre or a Branch meeting in September?

• 27 August - another chance to meet Alexander Armstrong's well-connected ancestors  in Who Do You Think You Are? - 7 pm on BBC2

• 30 August - Jason Donovan and some Australian ancestry in Who Do You Think You Are? BBC1 at 9 pm

• 31 August - Wokingham library - FREE Drop in Advice afternoon

• 6 September - actor Hugh Quarshie investigates his ancestors in Who Do You Think You Are? BBC1 at 9 pm
  

• 8 September - Grandad's Memorabilia - Newbury Branch

• 9 to 12 September - Heritage Open Days. Look out for the society in Bracknell and in Wantage. The Research Centre will be open too on Thursday 9, Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September

• 14 September - Drop in afternoons and FREE Advice at Bracknell and Woodley libraries

• 15 September - Using the Family Search website - Computer Branch

• 17 September - All about the National Archives - Bracknell & Wokingham Branch

• 20 September - Scrapbook your family history - Vale Branch

• 28 September - drop-in for a FREE advice afternoon at Wokingham Library and later...
  

• 28 September - ... Michael Gandy at Windsor - Problems in London Ancestry

• 30 September - Starting your family history - Reading branch
  

If you were a member in the year to 30 June 2010 and have not yet paid your  fee for the current year to 30 June 2011 TIME IS RUNNING OUT . Act now. Renew online . Or download a form and send it completed + your payment to the membership secretary. Membership will end if you fail to pay by 30 September.

A typical comment from a first-time visitor to the Research Centre in Reading. Cross search Findmypast and Ancestry Library Edition (with access to worldwide information), explore key resources for other counties on CD, microfiche and in print.  (Over 7,000 items fill the library shelves, 80% of them unrelated to Berkshire!)

Whether your interests are local, national or international, drop in and discover  for yourself how much is here at Yeomanry House to help to advance your research. You'll get a friendly  welcome, and advice from society volunteers should you need it.

The society can help your research wherever your ancestors came from ... you don't need Berkshire ancestry to benefit ...

... and you don't need to live in Berkshire ... visitors come to Reading from far and wide to use society resources (and Berkshire Record Office is next door).

Shop

Take a look at the online shop. (You can buy at the Research Centre too when open - and by post.) Popular items include:

• Berkshire Burial Index (8th Edition) - CD - over 670,000 entries and a key finding aid
  
• Reading St Laurence Parish Registers - CD - parish records not in the IGI or online
• Berkshire Overseers' Papers (pre 1834) - CD - poor relief, settlement examinations, illegitimacy and more
• Berkshire as it was! Berkshire Maps : OS First Edition (1881 - 1887) - 51 maps, six inches to the mile, one CD, just £10 (+ p and p).

A volunteer team guided by Chad Hanna (he does the clever bits)  create and update Berkshire Family History Society's website. New web page authors are welcome to join  this group -  so contact us. Bookmark this page and look out for new and updated content.