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For family history researchers in Berkshire and for researching Berkshire ancestry
page last reviewed and revised Tuesday 21 May 2013
AGM—Abingdon—Monday 17 June
Membership renewals due by 1 July
150th Anniversary of Broadmoor Hospital article
Special offer — membership to June 2014
More information about this offer
NEW Berkshire Baptisms CD ◊ Details of content and coverage
Berkshire Marriages CD◊ Places and dates
Latest 11th Edition Berkshire Burials CD ◊ Places and dates
NEW Berkshire Probate Index CD 1480-1857 ◊ What wills can tell you
NEW An Historical Atlas of Berkshire ◊ read a review
Berkshire Maps CD OS First Edition 1881-1887 ◊ 51 maps, gazetteer and index
Berkshire Parish Registers ◊ 26 CDs of transcriptions ◊ details in the Shop
Berkshire Monumental Inscriptions ◊ CDs include Ascot, Crowthorne, Reading and more
CDs and all publications are available at the Research Centre
Sample datasets: Berkshire Probate Index, Berkshire Overseers Papers, Berkshire Maps, Berkshire Directories and pages from the new Historical Atlas of Berkshire—and more data coming shortly
Surnames from Berkshire CD publications
Monumental Inscriptions
Discussion List and Archive
Interactive maps ◊ Gazetteer
Pedigree Charts ◊ 35,000 names
Berkshire Family Historian ◊ magazine and archive
Summaries of recent meetings
Special membership offer to June 2014
Abingdon, Hungerford, Newbury, Reading, Windsor - explore the Royal County of Berkshire
Help with your research - wherever they came from!
Tuesday 21 May—Drop in advice at Crowthorne library
Friday 24 May—and each Friday—advice at Thatcham library
Tuesday 28 May—advice at Mortimer and Wokingham libraries
Saturday 1 June—MERL Village Fête
Tuesday 11 June—Drop in advice at Bracknell library
Wednesday 12 June—Drop in advice at Slough library
Tuesday 25 June—advice at Mortimer and Wokingham libraries
Tuesday 21 May—Vale Branch visit
Tuesday 28 May—Windsor—FamilySearch
Thursday 30 May—Reading—Researching military ancestors
Wednesday 12 June—Newbury—19th century squires and estates
Monday 17 June—Abingdon—Society AGM, then Children and War
Wednesday 19 June—Woodley—Your relative's place in history
Friday 21 June—Bracknell—Queen Victoria's soldiers
... find them at the Research Centre in Reading—Berkshire's foremost facility for family history research, with help and advice available if you need it. For UK, International—and Berkshire!—research. Use a full range of online, CD, microform and printed resources. Free parking too
Origins - search the National Wills Index
British Newspaper Archive - new pages added every day
Findmypast - with NEW Crime, Prisons and Punishment records
Ancestry (worldwide) not just UK version
Browse the library catalogue Search the catalogue
Opening times Remember! Not everything is online.
The Research Centre is in Reading, next to Berkshire Record Office—home of the original records of the Royal County of Berkshire—including those of the Vale of the White Horse and North Berkshire.
Some (not all) of the society's transcriptions are included in the Parish Records collection of Findmypast accessible at the Research Centre too.
Order a copy certificate online for £9.25 from the GRO - or for £10 + postage from a Local Register Office. Berkshire BMD offers local references for Reading and Bradfield Registration Districts. Try FreeBMD with its 290 million records for England and Wales too.
Quality is key.
Unlike some societies, Berkshire Family History Society will not publish unchecked material. And unlike some, almost all Berkshire FHS CD publications are fully browsable and searchable too.
Society volunteers have transcribed millions of Berkshire records (the first Berkshire Baptisms CD is now on sale too) and are busily transcribing more. Join in - and help to make even more Berkshire records more accessible for more people.
Could you help to check against original records at Berkshire Record Office in Reading?
What else needs to be done? Find out more today
page last reviewed and revised Tuesday 21 May 2013
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