FindMyPast — with many (but not all) of the society’s Berkshire parish register transcriptions.
The 1939 Register — containing details of over 41 million people — find precise dates of birth, single and married names, occupations and more. (Some individual records remain closed.)
Ancestry Library Edition — the international resource, enabling worldwide research (not just UK), and containing family trees too.
The British Newspaper Archive —over 29.5 million digitised pages from over 800 old newspaper titles
- The Genealogist — with unique resources — like searchable Tithe records and Tithe Maps and the 1910-1915 Domesday survey — unavailable online anywhere else
- Berkshire Baptisms, Marriages and Burials — access county-wide datasets.
- Baptisms — Over 1 million records with more coming soon.
- Marriages — 170,000 transcriptions of individual marriages featuring 580,000 names (witnesses, fathers’ details etc where recorded) from 172 parishes.
- Burials — over 900,000 entries from more than 270 Berkshire churchyards, cemeteries, crematoria and workhouses.
- Berkshire Strays Index, over 20,000 Berkshire people recorded out 0f county, including those in censuses from 1841 to 1901
- Berkshire Miscellaneous Index, over 100,000 names from assorted sources and individual submissions
- Local trade directories from 1830 onwards
- Parish register transcriptions
- Berkshire probate index — 1480-1857
- Berkshire overseers’ papers — 1601-1834
- Berkshire monumental inscriptions and war memorials
- National Burial Index third edition— a ‘lucky dip’ of over 18 million records from nearly 50 English and Welsh counties – but, sadly, not from all!
View our reference library in the online catalogue. Some titles may be available for purchase in our shop
The Centre holds a range of CDs offering data from other counties, and UK and international data too.
We also have over 5,000 microfiches offering data from the UK and Ireland.
View the catalogue here
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