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Tracker: Goal 4: Learn about Berkshire church and cemetery records.
Choices
ALearn about Berkshire church records.
- Get an overview of Berkshire church records in this article.
FS—Berkshire Church Records - Learn about Berkshire parish registers on the Berkshire Family History Society site (scroll down).
Searching Berkshire Parish Registers - Explore the
church records link and church history link on the GenUKI Berkshire site. - Use this parish page to explore parish records in Berkshire.
- Search parish register records on the Berkshire Record Office site.
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for church records. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
QUIKLinks
BExplore Berkshire cemetery records.
- Explore Berkshire cemetery records in this article.
FS—Berkshire Cemetery Records - Explore Berkshire cemetery records on the Gen UKI site.
- Search the Find a Grave site for cemetery records.
- Search the BillionGraves site for cemetery records.
Record Search Practice |
Emma Louisa Golding was buried in Berkshire, England in 1915. Use information from the "FS: Berkshire, Reading, Cemetery Records, 1843-1959" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- What is the burial date?
- How old was Louisa at the time of burial?
- Using Similar Records, what was Emma's death date, and who was her probate beneficiary?
- In the search screen for the QUIKLink above, enter "Emma Louisa Golding" in the appropriate search fields.
- Use the index transcription and the Similar Fields section to answer the questions.
- The burial date was April 1, 1915.
- Louisa was 84 at the time of burial.
- In the Similar Records section, open the link for "National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957". The transcription tells us that Emma died on March 29, 1915, and her beneficiary was William Charles Blandy.
Exercises
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for cemetery records. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
QUIKLinks