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Local & Family History

Current and upcoming local and family history events

Family History Advice session, Windsor Library

Maidenhead Mapped! Exhibition, Maidenhead Library

Family History Advice Session

(as part of Windsor Library's Community Day)

Ground floor, Windsor Library, Saturday 1 June 2013, 10am - 1pm.

The Berkshire Family History Society and the Borough's Local Studies Librarian will be jointly staging this session at Windsor Library. Whether you are just beginning to investigate your family tree or are more advanced in this fascinating, and often addictive hobby, we are happy to use our expertise to help you with any genealogical problems you bring in.

Society members and staff will make use of the Borough's online subscription to Ancestry to help you, though staff can also call upon other subscriptions. For more information about all of these, please go to this webpage.

Maidenhead Mapped!

Ground Floor, Maidenhead Library; Monday 20th May - Saturday 22nd June 2013.

Maidenhead Library is currently holding an exhibition of some of the most significant historical maps of the centre of Maidenhead showing changes during much of the last 200 years.

This includes the story of the celebrated Silver map which shows Maidenhead as it was in the early C19th; a Terry's survey map from 1840s plus copies of several super-scale (1:500) plans of Maidenhead town centre showing how it looked in 1875!

Several other maps from the C20th finish off the exhibition.

To see Maidenhead as you've never seen it before, make sure you don't miss Maidenhead Mapped!

Borough enquiries Family
maidenhead.library@rbwm.gov.uk

Dedworth, Eton, Eton Wick & Windsor
windsor.library@rbwm.gov.uk

Chris Atkins
Local Information & History Librarian
01628 796974

Maidenhead Library has a local studies room for researching local history and your family history. The Nicholson Room is based on the first floor and gives you access to thousands of photographs, books & maps relating to the Royal Borough.

Discover history today…

Comfortable, quiet area for individual study or group work
Trained staff to help with your research
Material for borrowing is located with reference information
Historical photos & press cuttings of local area, people & events
Books on local history and family history
Rare, valuable books and manuscripts
Historical maps of the Bray, Cookham, Hurley & Maidenhead area
Parish register transcripts for most of Berkshire
Local historical electoral registers
Kelly's directories from the Victorian era onwards
Maidenhead Advertiser from 1870 (on microfilm)
Specialist collections presented on well lit shelves
Some items can be reproduced, depending on copyright
Photographic displays of the local area

We have a vast range of resources from online services to census returns and city, town, county and regional directories.

Maidenhead and Windsor libraries have the largest collections with local newspaper cuttings and newspaper archives on microfilm (you can book places).

All Borough libraries have local history books covering their surrounding area.

Bridge Horse & Carriage
WIndsor Castle
Quiet area