Family history

We have books to help you trace your family history. Maidenhead and Windsor Libraries also have the International Genealogical Index on microfiche. Maidenhead Library has the unique John Brooks bequest of transcripts of most Berkshire Parish Registers up to 1837.

Web sites on family history:

• Berkshire Record office - http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/
• Berkshire Family History Society - http://www.berksfhs.org.uk/
• Family history resources in public libraries in the UK - http://www.familia.org.uk/libraries.html
• A portal guiding users to government record and other sources for UK family history research - http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/
• FAMILY SEARCH - An internet version of the Mormon IGI. Good for early baptisms and marriages. Also includes 1881 census index - http://www.familysearch.org/
• FFHS - The Federation of Family History Societies - national umbrella organisation for local family history societies. Links to their FamilyHistoryOnline set of pay-per-view databases - http://www.ffhs.org.uk/ 
• FREEBMD - A growing database drawn from the GRO births, marriages and deaths index (1837 - 1906). Over 60 million entries - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
• GENUKI - Web sources on family history in the UK and Ireland. Allows you to home in on and link to national or county resources, record offices and societies - http://www.genuki.org.uk/
• SOCGEN - Society of Genealogists - London HQ has important library and sources. Links to their English Origins databases project - http://www.sog.org.uk/ 
• London Metropolitan Archives: Family History pages -
  http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/family-research/index.htm
• Family Records Centre of Office for National Statistics - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census/FamilyHistory/default.asp
• PRO - Public Record Office - http://www.pro.gov.org/
• 1837online - Pay-per-view site offering images of the GRO births, marriages and deaths index 1837 - 2001 - http://www.1837online.com/Trace2web/ 
• Family history resources for the UK and overseas - http://www.britishlibrary.net/familiy.html
• CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Large database of soldiers who died in First, Second and other wars, whose graves the Commission is responsible for. Sometimes gives family details - http://www.cwgc.org/
• Search for ancestors, merge family trees - http://www.linkmyfamilytree.com/

We also have contact numbers for all local history / family history societies in the area.

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