Berkshire, England, Genealogy Resources
Welcome To Berkshire Genealogy
Welcome to anyone researching their ancestors in Berkshire.
This site aims to become a collection of links to the main resources
for such research.
Berkshire Family History Society
Berkshire Record Office
Mailing lists for
Berkshire
Surname interest list for Berkshire
Maps of Berkshire
Programs giving parishes nearby to one another
Register office addresses
Berkshire GenWeb
Query board
Resources available for genealogical research in Berkshire
Berkshire Family History Society
Berkshire Family History Society
The Berkshire Record Office holds the original historic documents relating
to the county.
They will answer enquiries relating to holdings - contact them at
ARCH@Reading.gov.uk
Mailing
lists for Berkshire
BERKS-L@rootsweb.com and eng-berkshire@british-genealogy.com are mailing lists for family history related to Berkshire, England.
You may subscribe from
http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/MailingLists.html
Surname interest list for Berkshire
This links to a list of
surnames under research in Berkshire,
cross-referenced to place & date.
Check for researchers with similar interests to yourself, and add
your own interests.
http://www.berksfhs.org.uk/berkshire/BerkshireParishes.htm
Maps of most of the UK relating to the late 1800s can be found at
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
For locating any place, even a small village, use http://uk.multimap.com/ .
This gives a detailed zoomable map, including a scale. It
even has contour colouring!
On the national level, a very pretty map of the counties of
Britain is at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Britain.html
Programs giving parishes nearby to one
another
Programs listed here enable one to find parishes within a certain radius of a given parish, and to calculate the distance between parishes.
Register office addresses are listed here.
If you cannot find the office that you are looking for in the
index, you may find the web pages Registration
Districts in England and Wales a useful aid, or the
alphabetical index of place-names,
showing the counties and districts in which they were situated
for the period 1837-1930
Please feel free to post your query to the Berkshire GenWeb Query board.
| This website is part of the EnglandGenWeb
project. The webmaster is Wendy Archer. |
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Comments and Other Information
Last updated on: Friday, 04-Feb-2005 22:08:53 MST
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