A grandfather's link to Kerensky; groundwork on site pays off; index to The Times; tale of an autograph book; family gathering advice; the Mackellar dynasty; East India Company; an emotional virtual visit to Scotland

FH on local radio; education for Victorian girls; DNA testing; Christmas day in the workhouse; death duty records; Charles Booth; benefactors of Aldermaston

Famous people buried in Berkshire; wills; Protestation returns of 1641/2; Ordnance Survey; London Gazette; house history

Google Book Search; networking with the Cassell family; a way with wills; the parish of Bray; birth of an archive; Bradfield Southend Road shops in the 1950s; mystery diarist in Berkshire

Broadmoor archives; Shurlock Row; MIs in Enborne and Hamstead Marshall; early Berkshire Quakers; BRO history; medieval cloth trade

Religious dissent in 17th-century Berkshire; John Rocque's map; the middle ages in western Berkshire; murder at Clarence Clump; Joseph Toomer of Newbury

Bradley family of Wokingham; shipwreck off St Keverne; DNA testing for family history; sifting truth from falsehood; BRO birthday; photo-editing tools

House of Toomer; St Mary's Children's Home, Cold Ash; preparing photos for editing; Head family; turning research into print

1851 religious census; DNA for finding family; Wokingham Blacks; birth registration without names; Reading races; Wixenford School; a Victorian apprentice

Scottish BMD certificates; a double grave at Iver Heath; a drunken policeman; Purley; fishy ancestors; surname conundrums

Craven tenancies; Hovis books; strays in Chester and Wrexham; newsgathering in Maidenhead; home defence forces WWII; Knapps of Shrivenham; Cold Ash; goodies in the Wardrobe

Berkshire's Gretna Green; Newbury Girls' School and child migrants; Waltham St Lawrence; three Reading families; conscription 1750-1900; Wallingtons in Kintbury; at school in White Waltham in WWII