Payne family of Milton; evacuation of mothers and babies WWII; land tenancy in 19th and early 20th centuries; variant spellings of surnames; Vale and Downland Museum; Cookham

Mental health records; Shinfield Charity School; Reading Museum's Victorian schoolroom; school records at the BRO; Enborne

Churching rite in Berkshire; Wargrave; using Ancestry for the census; Fair Mile Hospital; a policeman's lot; civil registration; William Godfrey 1610-96

Hungerford's archives Aldermaston The Newbury Coat A smallpox victim of the 1880s National Monuments Record in Swindon

Banister family of Finchampstead William Leach, grocer of Wokingham 30th anniversary conference Somerset to Berkshire

30th anniversary issue

Town records What's new at FHO Wilts wills project History of Battle workhouse