News Stories from Berkshire Family History Society
Learn how the new online release of Berkshire parish register images on Ancestry works alongside our accurate transcriptions to aid your research.
Discover how to decipher 16th to 18th-century wills and parish registers with a practical PDF guide to reading secretary hand script.
Discover how Alf Ison's classic guide helps you decode impenetrable 16th to 18th-century secretary hand and master historical family documents.
Discover our new Family Research Centre, offering free access to major genealogy databases, expert research assistance, and extensive local archives.
An important message for our US customers - temporary suspension of orders for the USA due to the implementation of tariffs
We're happy to launch a series of reports that you can use to test the validity of the data you enter into YourTrees. Invalid or unlikely dates. Missing or multiple names, unknown gender and more ...
The 1921 Census is coming and you're invited to hear about it directly from Findmypast in one of two talks hosted by Berkshire FHS
Berkshire Family History Society introduces a new member service - YourTrees - to enable members to preserve their research and create a digital legacy Free for members
Discover how new search tools on TheGenealogist help you find ancestors in the 1939 Register using addresses, occupations and birth dates.
By mid-April there are over 42 million digitised pages in the British Newspaper Archive And besides titles from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, there is a growing collection of publications from Southern Ireland too. Additions this month include the Reading Standard (nearly 50,000 pages from 1891-95 and 1897-1961) and the Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette (for 1898). From the pages of the Aberdare Times to the 120 issues of the Young Woman, many of your ancestors featured in the press during their lives and can be found somewhere within this collection of digitised newspapers and magazines. Go to the site and search the newspapers
Discover 3.4 million burial entries from the National Burial Index added to Findmypast, with exclusive records available via member access.
Discover how newly completed WWI pension records on Fold3 can help you trace relatives who served, were injured, or killed in the Great War.
