Hello All, Yesterday I receive the Berkshire 1851 CD which has just been issued by the Berkshire Family History Society. This CD is where you enter the name of the person that you are looking for, you will get all of the data entered on that page if you select any of the button at the top of the page. I just entered in BORN: Kingsclere and the surname of MILES this is what I got. Fore names: Charlote. Surname: MILES. Age: 7. Census Place: Brimpton. Address: Marsh Lane. Birth Place: Kingsclere. County: HAM ENG. Occupation: Scholar. Charlotte MILES status U 13 F Midgham Chapel Street Kingsclere Scholar Elizabet MILES U 22 F Thatcham Chapel Street Kingsclere Emma MILES 14 F Brimpton Marsh Lane Kingsclere Field Worker Harriet MILES M 52 Hampstead Marshall Kingsclere Farm Servant James MILES 1 M Brimpton Midgham Kingsclere Agricultural labourer There is a list of all of the surnames that are entered on the CD on the left hand side of the screen. As you all know, Berkshire is just over the boarder of Hampshire. Enquiries to: bookshop@berksfhs.org.uk Regards Barbara Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants, UK BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk Listowner

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:00:18 +0100 Barbara Mallyon wrote: > Yesterday I receive the Berkshire 1851 CD which has just been issued by > the Berkshire Family History Society. This looks like being good value for money at £23.10. Some months ago I purchased the 1851 fiche for Newbury, Thatcham & Bradfield at cost of £19.65 so for a further £4 you get the whole county. The fiche are however very easy to use and have a name index as well as the 'as enumerated' format and, dare I say it as an HGS member, a big improvement on the HGS 1851 Census index. Berks FHS website says the CD requires the M$ Windows OS but since the data is in Adobe pdf format anyone with a suitable version of Acrobat Reader should be able to view the data What won't work on non-windows systems is the search facility Barbara described. You can still use the search facility in Acrobat to find names but this is not be as specific as the search engine included on the CD. -- John Lewis <jayellatntlworlddotcom> from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. using Debian GNU/Linux and GeneWeb genealogy software