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.

In May 1939 the Military Training Act was passed by the British Parliament. This required every man aged 20 or 21 to present themselves for 6 months military service. My father, Leonard Sidney Frank Walter was drafted into the Militia on 17th July 1939 – just after his 21st birthday. This is his story

When perusing about 160 postcards that had been in the possession of my paternal grandmother and her mother, from the beginnings of the 20th century, I realised that they held secrets and clues that other family history sources do not hold