Berkshire, England Genealogy

England |Berkshire

Guide to Berkshire ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

County Information
"BERKS, or Berkshire, an inland county, within the basin of the Thames. It is bounded, on the N, by Gloucester, Oxford and Bucks; on the E, by Surrey; on the S, by Herts; and on the W, by Wilts... Berks contains 146 parishes, parts of 14 others, and three extra-parochial tracts...

SOURCE: The above extract is taken from, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72.

Parishes
Click here for a list of the historic ecclesiastical parishes in Berkshire and to learn more about them. Use an interactive map to find jurisdictions for each parish in Berkshire.

Civil Registration Districts
List of Berkshire Registration districts.

Websites

 * There are a number of record offices and archives in Berkshire that have records of genealogical value.
 * The Berkshire Family History Society has much to offer the researcher.
 * GENUKI
 * Bedfordshire Resources and help pages on RootsChat Berkshire Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * Rootsweb
 * GenealogyLinks
 * Cyndislist
 * The Visitations of Berkshire
 * Berkshire resources at the Society of Genealogists.

Probate Jurisdictions
Before 1858, every town and parish in Berkshire was under the probate jurisdiction of several ecclesiastical courts. To read more about probate records and see a list of Berkshire towns and parishes and the probate courts that had jurisdiction over them, go to Berkshire Probate Records.

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