Skip to content
  • This is the DEV site
  • Shop
    • Go to Shop
    • Member-only Shop Discount Code
  • About
    • Where we are
    • What we do
    • Who’s Who
    • Get involved – Become a Research Assistant
    • Constitution
  • What’s On
    • Events List
    • My Bookings
    • Where we are
    • Berkshire Heritage Fair 2022 Report
  • Membership
    • Join/Renew
    • Buy a Gift Membership
  • Community
    • Community (Forum)
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
  • Help
    • Accessing Shop CDs
    • Research Wizard
    • Contact
    • Make sure our emails arrive
    • Projects
    • Webinar Help Guides
  • Log In
  • 0
  • Toggle website search
0 Menu Close
  • This is the DEV site
  • Shop
    • Go to Shop
    • Member-only Shop Discount Code
  • About
    • Where we are
    • What we do
    • Who’s Who
    • Get involved – Become a Research Assistant
    • Constitution
  • What’s On
    • Events List
    • My Bookings
    • Where we are
    • Berkshire Heritage Fair 2022 Report
  • Membership
    • Join/Renew
    • Buy a Gift Membership
  • Community
    • Community (Forum)
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
  • Help
    • Accessing Shop CDs
    • Research Wizard
    • Contact
    • Make sure our emails arrive
    • Projects
    • Webinar Help Guides
  • Log In
  • 0
  • Toggle website search

Berkshire Family History Society

for family historians, wherever you are

This is our TEST site - transactions made here cannot be fulfilled

  • This is the DEV site
  • Shop
    • Go to Shop
    • Member-only Shop Discount Code
  • About
    • Where we are
    • What we do
    • Who’s Who
    • Get involved – Become a Research Assistant
    • Constitution
  • What’s On
    • Events List
    • My Bookings
    • Where we are
    • Berkshire Heritage Fair 2022 Report
  • Membership
    • Join/Renew
    • Buy a Gift Membership
  • Community
    • Community (Forum)
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
  • Help
    • Accessing Shop CDs
    • Research Wizard
    • Contact
    • Make sure our emails arrive
    • Projects
    • Webinar Help Guides
  • Log In
  • 0
  • Toggle website search

Basket

Your basket is currently empty.

Return to shop

We’d love to hear from you

Feedback / Get in touch
  • Donate
  • Profile
  • Privacy Policy
Menu
  • Donate
  • Profile
  • Privacy Policy

An online reference library of genealogical information for the UK and Ireland. A non-commercial service, maintained by volunteers and a charitable trust

Berkshire Family History Society

The Centre for Heritage and Family History

 2nd Floor, Reading Central Library, 

Abbey Square, Reading, RG1 3BQ

UK

///sang.values.reach

Tel: +44 (0) 118 950 9553

Registered Charity No; 283010

based on the records of the

Reading Registrar of Births, Deaths

and Marriages.

Transcribed and checked by the society 

Member of  the Berkshire Local History Association - founded in 1976 to encourage interest in local history in the county - before and after the boundary changes of 1974.

Copyright © 1975 - 2023 Trustees of Berkshire Family History Society
×
×

Basket

Subscribe to newsletter

If you aren’t receiving newsletters, you may find that the email ended up in your SPAM folder – in which case, please could you add the following email addresses to your contacts address book:                              

no*****@be******.uk and be******@be******.uk

Alternatively:

  1. You may be one of those for whom we don’t have an email address and permission to use it
  2. We have an out-of-date email address

Please go here to reenter your email address and state your preferences

Tell us what you think

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

  • Opportunities to volunteer and so help others with their family history