September 2008

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

June 2008

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

March 2008

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

December 2007

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

September 2007

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

June 2007

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

March 2007

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