Berkshire FHS Online Shop
Welcome to the shop
For all family historians, genealogists and local historians with research interests in Berkshire, England.
As well as society publications, the shop features a range of other products in electronic, print and microform formats. These include transcriptions and indexes, general and local guides for family historians, maps and a fine selection of local history books for Berkshire and adjoining counties.
From the shop, you can also join the society, renew your membership and order searches of the society’s databases.
How to find the items you need
- type your search term – e.g. ‘census’, ‘militia’, ‘Newbury’, ‘probate’ – in the search box; or
- use the links on the right to browse publication categories in which you are interested.
How to place an order
Choose your product(s), add to your shopping cart and then go to Checkout.
You should do this whichever way you intend to pay for your purchase.
You will find that there are four stages to the Checkout process:
- First you confirm your details and the delivery address;
- Next, you choose how you want your purchase to be sent to you;
- Then decide how you would like to pay for your purchase.
You can pay online, using one of these debit or credit cards; or pay by posting a sterling cheque for your product(s) and the post and packing charge. - Lastly, you complete and confirm your order
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BERKSHIRE MARRIAGES - First Edition
This Berkshire Marriages CD provides over 346,000 names of grooms, brides, fathers and witnesses in over 117,000 marriages recorded in the marriage registers and Bishops’ Transcripts of Berkshire parishes. Volunteers undertake transcribing on behalf of Berkshire Family History Society. Work will continue until all available Berkshire Marriages have been recorded.
This First Edition focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on the years before civil registration began in 1837, and on those Church of England parishes, that after the boundary changes of 1974, remained Berkshire parishes. Some historic North Berkshire parishes are included but those absorbed from Buckinghamshire post-1974 are not. Full details of parishes and periods covered can be found at www.berksfhs.org.uk.
Berkshire Record Office (Reading) holds original parish registers for the pre-1974 county of Berkshire (including the Vale of the White Horse).
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre (Chippenham) holds surviving early Bishops’ Transcripts for Berkshire (to 1835).
Purchase of this Berkshire Marriages CD entitles the owner to a large discount on the full price of the next edition (conditions apply).
