For many years, society volunteers have diligently transcribed millions of parish records. We make this data accessible in a variety of ways – on CD, via Findmypast and in Data Downloads (PDF format - available as soon as you have completed your purchase).

The society’s county-wide CDs are the most cost effective. They are fully indexed which makes finding your ancestors as they migrated from village to village relatively easy. It’s amazing how far some of them travelled.

You can access the county-wide indexes for baptisms, banns, marriages and burials below.

These will list the occurrences, the year and the parish. Once you have found it in the index, the full entry, usually giving details such as the name of parents, name of spouse, occupation, age, address etc, can be viewed in the relevant county-wide CD.

Alternatively, if PDF Downloads better meet your need, check the availability for the parish and, if published, you’ll find the entry there as well. The majority of parishes in our county-wide CDs are also available in download format, but some are still a work in progress.

Please note these are transcriptions. The original registers are held by and can be viewed at the Royal Berkshire Archive or the other archive repositories.

To find the available data downloads, county-wide and individual parish CDs, use the search function in the top menu