Berkshire Family History Society for family history research – and all genealogy interests
in Berkshire and beyond

On this page you will find main features from some past issues of the Historian.

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December 2009 (sample issue)

• Broadcasting your family history
  
• What did Grandma’s generation do with their education?
• Alfadammerung
  
• DNA testing: the next generation
• Christmas Day in the workhouse
• Taxing the dead
  
• Booth’s life and labour: London poverty
• Benefactors of Aldermaston
• Things to find out from your relatives

June 2009

• Google BookSearch by Penny Stokes
• Networking with the Cassell family by Vicki Turner
• A way with wills by Lionel Carter
• The parish of Bray by Judith Mitchell
• Birth of an archive by Valerie Storie
• Bradfield Road shops in the 1950s by Vicki Turner
• Mystery diarist from Berkshire by Isobel Turner

March 2009

• Conservation of Broadmoor archives by Mark Stevens
• Facebook for family historians by Debbie Kennett
• Mystery visitors to Shurlock Row by Mick Henry
• MIs in Enborne and Hamstead Marshall by Penny Stokes
• Early Berkshire Quakers by Manfred Brod
• The BRO since 1981 by Mark Stevens
• Cloth and money by David Peacock

December 2008

• Seventeenth-century religious dissenters in Berkshire by Manfred Brod
• John Rocque’s 1761 map of Berkshire: an evaluation by Charles Masters
• When did the middle ages end in western Berkshire by Margaret Yates
• The Clarence Clump murder by Alan Gardener
• Adding value to research findings by Barry Jerome
• Ironmonger, campaigner, artist, diarist and mayor by Phil Wood

September 2008

• Bradleys of Wokingham by Richard Bradley
• The wreck of the Mohegan by Joan Vinall
• Answers from your genes by Debbie Kennett
• Family legends: true or false? by Bob Adams
• BRO celebrates its 60th anniversary by Mark Stevens
• Using some photo-editing tools by Lionel Carter
• The House of Toomer part II by Phil Wood