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Berkshire Burials

• Quality
• Transcription and conventions used
• Coverage
• Checking
• Grouping
• Abbreviations and codes
• Contact details
• How to buy
• Copyright

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Introduction

The Berkshire Burials Index is an ongoing project and contributes a subset of information to the National Burial Index promoted by the Federation of Family History Societies. Coverage of the Royal County is now fairly comprehensive, although it is still limited in the area now administered by Oxfordshire County Council.

Transcription and conventions used

The data has been compiled from films and fiche of the original registers and checked against the original registers, generally in the Berkshire Record Office. The transcription has been performed using the procedures set in place for the National Burial Index but including additional information.

The following information is included in the index:

• Title - the title of the person.
• Forename
• Surname
• Date
• Age
• Place - Church, Chapel or Cemetery
• Occupation e.g. vagrant
• Address (Town and Street)
• County as Chapman County code
• Status - if present, often gives relationship to another person.
• Relationship and Relation - name of any relative that is recorded.
• Additional notes
• BT - if recorded from Bishop's transcripts

Coverage

At the present time the dataset comprises some 280,847 names mainly from the southern part of Berkshire (excluding the Vale of the White Horse currently administered by Oxfordshire County Council).

The following table shows the number of entries and years covered for this version of the database:

More up-to-date information on the progress of the project is available on the Berkshire Family History Society web site at www.berksfhs.org.uk/berkshire/BerkshireBurialIndex.htm

Checking

This data has been checked.

Grouping

There are no groups in this database.

Abbreviations and Codes

Few abbreviations have been used other than the ubiquitous three letter Chapman county codes e.g. BRK = Berkshire.

Contact Details

If you would like to report errors or possible mis-transcriptions, please contact Berks FHS but please remember that this is a transcription!

How to buy

A CD-ROM with information from the 6th edition is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format via mail order from www.berksfhs.org.uk/berksfhsbooks/ this contains a further 72,000 entries.

Approximately 320,000 of these entries can be found on the second edition of the National Burial Index also available from the Society Bookstall.

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Berkshire Family History Society.

While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the originals of the burial registers (or facsimiles thereof, e.g. microfilm) and to form their own interpretation. The Berkshire Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the registers.)

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