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  • Criminal Register Indexes,  Vol CDP2  South-Central (PRO HO27) 1805-1816 (CD) Quick View
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    • Criminal Register Indexes, Vol CDP2 South-Central (PRO HO27) 1805-1816 (CD)

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    • Includes Berkshire and England & Wales Master Index.
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  • Dictionary of Saints’ Days, Fasts, Feasts & FestivalsDictionary of Saints’ Days, Fasts, Feasts & Festivals Quick View
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    • Dictionary of Saints’ Days, Fasts, Feasts & Festivals

    • £7.95
    • Family, local and general historians all rely heavily on dates. This dictionary -160 pages - is a guide to the many special days on which celbrations or annual customs took place, setting them briefly in an historic, religious or social context.
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  • Family Historian’s Enquire Within, TheFamily Historian’s Enquire Within, The Quick View
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    • Family Historian’s Enquire Within, The

    • £9.99
    • NEW LOWER PRICE This new edition of the standard reference work for family historians, gives clear and concise information on more than 1,000 entries giving explanations, definitions, dates, and useful websites
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  • Granny was a Brothel Keeper; 50 Family History TrapsGranny was a Brothel Keeper; 50 Family History Traps Quick View
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    • Granny was a Brothel Keeper; 50 Family History Traps

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    • This is an entertaining collection of true stories which illustrate the fascinating and sometimes bizarre world of family history research. It also outlines many of the traps which lie in wait for the family historian.
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  • Guide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents from your Jewish Ancestors, AGuide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents from your Jewish Ancestors, A Quick View
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    • Guide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents from your Jewish Ancestors, A

    • £4.50
    • This guide is designed to help those people (whether Jewish or non-Jewish) who have difficulty in reading or understanding Hebrew. It includes English explanation, translation and transliteration of the Hebrew in the book.
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  • Hw 2*t ur Fmly Hstry (How to start your Family History)Hw 2*t ur Fmly Hstry (How to start your Family History) Quick View
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    • Hw 2*t ur Fmly Hstry (How to start your Family History)

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    • NEW LOWER PRICE. "Where do I come from?" is a question asked by most children at some time. Aimed at children aged 9 to 16 tells them how to go about starting their family history and contains puzzles and snippets of interest that can be enjoyed by all.
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  • Jewish Ancestors?  A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United KingdomJewish Ancestors?  A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom Quick View
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    • Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom

    • £4.50
    • The Guide includes detailed information about the holdings of the various resource  centres throughout the UK  including archives, libraries, museums, record offices, synagogues, etc.. It is designed specifically with family historian in mind, whether or not a beginner.
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  • Jewish Family History Records, A Guide to organising Quick View
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    • Jewish Family History Records, A Guide to organising

    • £4.95
    • This book provides numerous suggestions to help family historians who have gathered a lot of information about their family and need help with putting it in order. The guidance will be of use to all family historians.
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    • Latin Documents for family and local historians, Making Sense of

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    • NEW LOWER PRICEThe aim of this book is to act as a crib; to set out and translate the basic form of the most useful and common Latin documents and gives translations one sentence at a time as the standard phrases do not always occur in the expected order.
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    • Latin for family historians, Glossary

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    • This book aims to include most of the commoner Latin words which occur in parish registers, wills, title deeds, manorial records, etc and gives guidance to their meanings in English.
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  • Law and Order, (Portraits of the English 2) Quick View
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    • Law and Order, (Portraits of the English 2)

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  • Marriage Law for Genealogists: the Definitive Guide Quick View
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    • Marriage Law for Genealogists: the Definitive Guide

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Berkshire Family History Society works to meet the needs of those researching their ancestry across the UK and overseas – as well as those looking for former relatives in historic Berkshire.  You do not need to be a member to benefit.

The society offers:

  • Research Zone in central Reading that is free to use and open to all

  • Free access at The Centre for Heritage and Family History to online resources like FindMyPast, the 1939 Register, The Genealogist, the British Newspaper Archive and Ancestry (the worldwide edition)

  • Regular free help and advice sessions

  • Meetings in Abingdon, Bracknell, Newbury, Reading and Windsor; and a virtual Computer Branch which meets online.  All meetings are open to everyone

  • Community forum – informed answers to research queries and advice from experienced researchers

  • Members’ Area with data and other information not readily accessible elsewhere

  • Indexes and transcriptions of Berkshire’s historic records on CD — parish registers, probate documents, monumental inscriptions, maps, First World War history and more

  • Quarterly magazine, the Berkshire Family Historian, for members

  • a chance to join in project work, recording, transcribing and helping to preserve records

  • Links to the research experience, advice and support of members worldwide

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