Richard Croker explains why he joined Berkshire Family History Society

Dennis Grover follows his paternal great-grandather Fred Grover's journey to Australia

Gillian Hazell tells us of her grandmothers’ life. Frances Ellen Marshall was born in 1894 to single mother, Elizabeth Marshall, an inmate of Wokingham workhouse, situated in Barkham Road.

Richard Brown shares an example of why you should verify all the stories you’ve been told

Michael Barlow shows how much detail can be found from military records and how this enabled him to tell his grandfather's story

Jewish genealogy is even more exciting than general genealogy, because it forces you to understand history, geography, new languages, new alphabets as well as social history. There were no Jews in this country between 1290 and 1657 so an ancestor of yours must have come to the UK from some other “old country” be it in Eastern Europe, Germany, Holland or elsewhere.

In May 1939 the Military Training Act was passed by the British Parliament. This required every man aged 20 or 21 to present themselves for 6 months military service. My father, Leonard Sidney Frank Walter was drafted into the Militia on 17th July 1939 – just after his 21st birthday. This is his story