Eric Saxton tells the story of an East Ilsley man who was caught up in Dunkirk

Elizabeth Lloyd delves into her heritage, "sparked by the stories my Grandma told me of the forest of masts she could see over the roofs when she grew up in Rotherhithe in the 1890s."

Tim Powys-Lybbe asks can I verify some of the ancestry of Annie Powys, my great-great grandmother?

Catherine Sampson takes a look at some local men’s experiences in the Far East. VJ Day has always been something of a poor relation to VE Day, yet many Berkshire villages had men who were in the Far East, Purley included. Several villagers, including subsequent incomers, would laterbriefly recall their ordeal in the camps, including one of Purley’s rectors.

Gillian Hazell tells us of her grandmothers’ life. Frances Ellen Marshall was born in 1894 to single mother, Elizabeth Marshall, an inmate of Wokingham workhouse, situated in Barkham Road.

Richard Brown shares an example of why you should verify all the stories you’ve been told

Penny Stokes takes a look at a long gone substitute for divorce

Fred Waite tells the story of a much-travelled ancestor - William Watkins Waite and his travelling family

Richard Croker explains why he joined Berkshire Family History Society

Dennis Grover follows his paternal great-grandather Fred Grover's journey to Australia

Michael Barlow shows how much detail can be found from military records and how this enabled him to tell his grandfather's story

Jewish genealogy is even more exciting than general genealogy, because it forces you to understand history, geography, new languages, new alphabets as well as social history. There were no Jews in this country between 1290 and 1657 so an ancestor of yours must have come to the UK from some other “old country” be it in Eastern Europe, Germany, Holland or elsewhere.