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Berkshire Genealogy
 
Description

"Berkshire, an inland county of England, on the south bank of the River Thames, having Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire on the north, Hampshire on the south, Surrey on the south-east, and Wiltshire on the west. Berkshire is irregular in shape, with an extreme length of 43 miles from east to west, and an extreme breadth of 30 miles from north to south, and an area of 462,210 acres."
from Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1899

 Genuki - Berkshire
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Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Wiltshire
Berkshire GenWeb
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find local resources and reference information
Archives and Libraries
 
Berkshire Record Office West Berkshire Libraries & Information Service
Berkshire Lookup Exchange
 request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
Cyndi's List - Berkshire
largest private collection
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Genealogy Record Sources

many of these sites can provide source record information of ancestors:
 
Directories
huge resource by University of Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
Probate
70,700 records from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s
Surname Lists
Berkshire Surname List
provides surnames being researched and email address of researcher
Births, Deaths, Marriages
search over 100 million UK births, deaths and marriages
Message Boards
post and read about Berkshire genealogy with other researchers
Cemeteries
Interment.net - Berkshire

Parish Registers

free internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records,
which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers
War Memorials
Roll-of-Honour - Berkshire
Berkshire war memorials and rolls of honour
 
UK Electoral Rolls
search over 100 million people in UK electoral rolls
Censuses
 
1841-1891 Census transcriptions by volunteers
 
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