Reasons why your ancestor did not make a will; where to find a wife or husband; Weigalls, a grand family with a secret; a Georgian rake who left his mark on Wargrave; a Russian view of Reading; a family saga ending in Broadmoor

London Gazette online; finding evacuees; John Elwes the Berkshire miser; low-cost family history;Newbury's Newtown Road cemetery; Sailing under the Russian flag

Digging up in the cemetery; evacuees from WWII; Berkshire hero drowned in Essex; the beleagured wife of the rector of Burghfield; James Tufnail, Newbury's rebel; ironworkers in Reading; precautions against digital catastrophe

Stained glass at West Hendred; Gertrude Bacon; the Women's Land Army; Australian odyssey; an ancestor at Buckingham Palace

National registration database; census research; two Australian stories; genealogical coincidences; Alice Englefield of Hurst; land ownership records

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