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

Berkshire family history at the Surrey History Centre
Unknown documents at Reading Library
Using army records to find a soldier's Irish birthplace

Redcoats in the Wardrobe Berkshire family history and Oxfordshire Record Office; Trade union records

Women's land armies in two world wars Broadmoor Hospital Freemasons and family history

Carter's Royal Berkshire Steam Fair; Not dead but gone to Slough ''Funny Blood' - a family with an inherited blood disease

Repairing old photos Potted history of Yeomanry House "Didn't you know they came from Reading?"