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Written by Derek Ayshford
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Have you got ancestors who married in Bucks after 1837? If so, having found them on the GRO indexes in a Buckinghamshire Registration District - Eton, High Wycombe, Aylesbury, etc., have you wondered how to find out more without paying out the £9.25+ required to get the official certificate? If it is pre-1901 you could order a marriage search and, for £1, get a copy of the transcription, or, using CHURCH FINDER (members only), use the volume and page number from the GRO index to identify the exact church and then visit the Centre for Bucks Studies and see the original marriage register (or film), which will give you full details. High Wycombe Library and Milton Keynes Library also have some of the films (check first).
A bonus in viewing the original (register or film) is that you will see your ancestor's own signature (unless they made their mark!) and not the copy that the vicar wrote out for the Registrar.
For full details and background of the GRO marriage index system see this article |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 13 April 2012 )
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Written by Derek Ayshford
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Open Day 2012
We look forward to welcoming you to our annual Open Day, which will take place on Saturday 28th July 2012, from 10am to 4pm at The Grange School, Wendover Way, Aylesbury HP21 7NH.
As always, this free event will have something for everyone - whether beginner or experienced researcher - and wherever your ancestors came from.
All of the Society's facilities will be available, including our names database, now containing over five million entries including baptisms, marriages and burials; parish register transcripts and other publications will be on sale; and there will be lots of help and advice.
We have invited guest societies from around the country to attend, together with the wide range of commercial suppliers of maps and books, software, archival materials and services visitors have come to expect.
We have a talk for beginners lined up, which will be given twice during the day. These will be available on a first-come basis, as we regret that we are unable take bookings or make reservations for them.
Free entry, and free parking at the venue. By bus from Aylesbury bus station take Arriva service 50 towards Wendover as far as Chaucer Drive, about eight minutes walk.
We'll be updating this page frequently to list all who have confirmed, so come back to check out this page regularly. The following organizations will be at Open Day 2012: |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 May 2012 )
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Written by Tony Sargeant
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This article contains the links from Ian Williamson's talk about Google Maps in Family History Research |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 April 2012 )
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Written by Derek Ayshford
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 NEW - available in the Shop price £6+ p&p
Parish Registers of Medmenham, St Peter & St Paul
Banns 1754 - 1812
Baptisms 1557 - 1901
Burials 1575 - 1901
Marriages 1575 - 1901
Available as printed or on CD |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 April 2012 )
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Written by Derek Ayshford
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 Although it has been out some time we would like to draw you attention to "The Dell Index of Buckinghamshire Apprentices"
The CD puts together the work of Alan Dell over many years collecting together the details of about 7800 apprentices from Bucks covering the period 1449-1900. Sources included records of the various charities held in the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, The London Livery Companies and the William Harding Trust. The lists are searchable in a variety of ways, by apprentice, by master by trade etc. Details for each apprentice usually include name, year, parent/s, location and trade., It is available in the Shop at £10 +p&p |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 May 2012 )
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Written by Derek Ayshford
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We have received a number of queries about our CDs and windows 7. All our CDs are Windows 7 compatible except the very early copies of the 1851 Census for Bucks (The ones with the title on a siver background) . If you still have one of these and wish to use it on a Windows 7 machine you will need to download a fix here |
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Written by Derek Ayshford
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The Bucks Names Index now contains nearly 5.2 million names of people with Buckinghamshire connections. In addition to the information from nearly every Parish register there is information from a wide variety of other sources - see below for some of them.
The index is searchable at the Centre for Bucks Studies during normal opening hours. On most Tuesdays volunteers from the Society can assist you with searching and make much more of the underlying material available
The index is also searchable at High Wycombe Library and on most Thursday afternoons there will be a volunteer to help you and give you access to more data
All searches are free of charge.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 March 2012 )
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