If you have landed on this page, the chances are that you know a bit about your family tree already.

Like all county archives, the Berkshire Record Office (BRO) holds a wealth of information for the family historian that will help you get past the basic details you can find online.

The commercial providers give you good access to post-1837 information.  We have copies of the same sources that they use: births, marriages and deaths indexes, census returns, and later wills.  You can use all these things for free if you visit us.

What makes the BRO special is not just the advice we can offer, but our collections of documents that you will not find online.  What you will find on our pages is how to shine a light on those parts of the tree that are harder to see. Use the links on the left to find out more.