This branch meets on the third Friday evening of the month at

Priestwood Community Centre
Priestwood Court Road
Bracknell
RG42 1TU

Doors open at 7.15pm Meetings begin at 7.45pm

Visitors are always welcome

Free car parking adjacent to the centre

How to find Priestwood Community Centre
(This uses the streetmap website and opens a new tab or window)

Most meetings include a talk on a topic of general interest to most family historians and given by a speaker who is an acknowledged authority on that subject. There are also news items and short contributions from local members likely to be of interest to a wider audience. The main talk is generally followed by questions and then refreshments. Meetings end by around 9.30pm.

Go directly to the Events Calendar for details about this month's meeting

Other Branch Activities

Public benefit is central to the work of all charities and each branch of Berkshire Family History Society plays its own part in delivering that benefit.

Advice Sessions

Bracknell & Wokingham Branch members provide advice every month at Bracknell Central Library in Town Square and at Wokingham Library in Denmark Street. You can bring your family history questions to these sessions and get some fresh ideas and answers on how you can move your research forward.

From time to time, similar events are held at other locations in the area.

Find out where and when you can next seek advice on your family history questions

Talks to community groups

A few local society members give talks on family history research to community groups. Organisations that engage such speakers are invited to make a donation to the society in lieu of a speaker fee.

Projects

Projects are a vital part of the work of the society. They are important in helping to preserve historic records and making information from those records accessible to a wider public. Without such project work, there would be few if any accurate indexes or transcripts accessible to fyou as a family historian.

Examples of Bracknell & Wokingham Branch projects include the recording of memorial inscriptions in the churchyards of Wokingham All Saints*, Wokingham St Paul and in Wokingham Free Church burial ground*. (*These are available on CD from the Shop.)

For more information about the Bracknell & Wokingham Branch

send a message to David Wooldridge, the branch chairman