Reading Family History Centre - part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and within the Reading England Stake - site hosted by Farnborough Dyslexia & Learning Centre

Due to the lack of demand, the centre will not open on Fridays from September but will instead open every Tuesday.
Detailed open times are shown below.

Please try one of the new products from FamilySearch.

1. Consultant or Priesthood Registration

2. Film Ordering

3. Forums

4. Indexing

5. Labs

6. RecordSearch

7. Wiki

Detailed instructions - On-line film ordering in the British Isles

From Monday, 10 May 2010 the process used to order microforms will change. Patrons wishing to hire a film or fiche will need to do so via the Internet. Go to the film ordering website at http://film.familysearch.org and open an account. Select a Family History Centre to view the films and where the ordered films will be shipped. Payment is made using a credit or debit card. (PayPal will be introduced at a later date.)

The costs for ordering microfilms and microfiche on-line are as follows:

1. Short-term loan: £7.50/film for 3 months hire

2. Extended loan: £18.75/film. These films have no return date, so remain in our FH Centre.)

3. Renewed loan: £7.50/film for 3 months hire

4. Microfiche: *£3.00/call number. Microfiche remain in a FHC after use.

5. *Microfiche are charged per FHL Catalogue number, regardless of how many fiche are assigned to the call number.

After placing on-line film order, you will receive e-mail saying the order has been received and also when it is shipped to the FHC. The progress of the order may be seen at any time by logging into the on-line film ordering account.

Procedure

1. Create an account – go to https://film.familysearch.org, follow instruction and sign in. Click here for more details.

2. Find the film or fiche you would like to hire from the Family History Library Catalogue – click here to go to the catalogue.

3. Click this link to see if we hold the required film.

4. Place an order. Click here to see the detailed procedure.

5. Click here to see the Users Guide

Detailed open times

Sun 4 Jul	Mon 5 Jul	Tue 6 Jul	Wed 7 Jul	Thu 8 Jul	Fri 9 Jul	Sat 10 Jul
	OPEN LM/MB				OPEN AJ/CJ

Sun 11 Jul	Mon 12 Jul	Tue 13 Jul	Wed 14 Jul	Thu 15 Jul	Fri 16 Jul	Sat 17 Jul
	OPEN LM/MB	OPEN AJ/CJ		OPEN BD/CW
Sun 18 Jul	Mon 19 Jul	Tue 20 Jul	Wed 21 Jul	Thu 22 Jul	Fri 23 Jul	Sat 24 Jul
	OPEN LM/MB				OPEN AJ/CJ
Sun 25 Jul	Mon 26 Jul	Tue 27 Jul	Wed 28 Jul	Thu 29 Jul	Fri 30 Jul	Sat 31 Jul
LDS AJ/CJ	OPEN LM/MB	OPEN AJ/CJ		OPEN BD/CW
Sun 1 Aug	Mon 2 Aug	Tue 3 Aug	Wed 4 Aug	Thu 5 Aug	Fri 6 Aug	Sat 7 Aug
	OPEN LM/MB		OPEN RT/ET/TP		OPEN AJ/CJ
Sun 8 Aug	Mon 9 Aug	Tue 10 Aug	Wed 11 Aug	Thu 12 Aug	Fri 13 Aug	Sat 14 Aug
	OPEN LM/MB	OPEN AJ/CJ		OPEN BD/CW
Sun 15 Aug	Mon16 Aug	Tue 17 Aug	Wed 18 Aug	Thu 19 Aug	Fri 20 Aug	Sat 21 Aug
	OPEN LM/MB		OPEN RT/ET/TP		OPEN AJ/CJ
Sun 22 Aug	Mon 23 Aug	Tue 24 Aug	Wed 25 Aug	Thu 26 Aug	Fri 27 Aug	Sat 28 Aug
	OPEN LM/MB	OPEN AJ/CJ		OPEN BD/CW
Sun 29 Aug	Mon 30 Aug	Tue 31 Aug	Wed 1 Sep	Thu 2 Sep	Fri 3 Sep	Sat 4 Sep
	Closed	OPEN AJ/CJ	OPEN RT/ET/TP		No Longer open on Fridays
Sun 5 Sep	Mon 6 Sep	Tue 7 Sep	Wed 8 Sep	Thu 9 Sep	Fri 10 Sep	Sat 11 Sep
	OPEN LM/MB	OPEN AJ/CJ		OPEN BD/CW	No Longer open on Fridays
Sun 12 Sep	Mon 13 Sep	Tue 14 Sep	Wed 15 Sep	Thu 16 Sep	Fri 17 Sep	Sat 18 Sep
	OPEN LM/MB	OPEN AJ/CJ	OPEN RT/ET/TP		No Longer open on Fridays

Special open times for LDS Members

The Centre is open on the last Sunday of each month from 4.00pm to 8.00pm

Films held by the Reading Family History Centre

The Reading Family History Centre has a number of commonly used films on permanent loan. These can be viewed free of charge by patrons. The list of films and their description can be seen by clicking Films.csv (comma separated value) and then search by using your browser search facility. Please let me know if there are any errors and what the correction should be. (email (UK_Reading @ LDSMail.net)).

Documents held by the Reading Family History Centre

The Reading Family History Centre has a number of commonly used fiche on permanent loan and other documents which can be viewed free of charge by patrons.

A list of the type of records held can be viewed by clicking here for 2000 info and here for 2005 info.

The Organisation:

Alan & Christine Johnson were called as directors of the Family History Centre in October 2005. Currently we have about 10 LDS staff assisted by previous helpers from the community who man the centre. We can be contacted by email (UK_Reading @ LDSMail.net) or phone (+44 (0) 1252 654911)

Location:

The Family History Centre is part of the Reading England Stake and meets in the Stake meeting house. The location can be found using MultiMap.

Reading England Stake consists of Basingstoke Ward, Bracknell Ward, Farnborough Ward, Newbury Branch, Oxford Ward, Reading Ward and Woodley Ward.

Facilities

We currently have

· four film readers and four fiche readers

· one digital film/fiche scanner printer

· one document/picture scanner

· five computers with free access to the internet and many internet websites such as www.familysearch.net and www.freebmd.org.uk.

· Many affiliate software programs to synchronise personal ancestral files (PAF) with new FamilySearch.

· about 3,000 films

· about 10,000 fiche

New FamilySearch or nFS

Registration

1. Priesthood Leaders and Family History Consultants can register at www.consultant.familysearch.org. to gain access to the training. They will need their ward/branch unit number (from Stake Diary) and a relevant calling.

2. All members in the London Temple District can now register on New FamilySearch. They will need their full membership record number and confirmation date (as held by the Ward Clerk) as well as some personal details to register.

There are some useful documents and a presentation that are provided to help you as follows:

1. a Members Guide to Temple and Family History Work

2. a summary of the benefits of nFS

3. some help sheets from Bracknell Ward on:

a. new FamilySearch Introduction

b. getting started

c. duplications

d. standard place names

Many thanks to Stewart for producing some of these documents

Important note: You must have the Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view the attachments. It may be downloaded free at www.adobe.com To install the Adobe Reader, click on the Get Adobe Reader button on the Adobe Web site home page and follow the instructions.

In addition to the above there is a New FamilySearch Rollout Video being sent to Priesthood Leaders and Family History Consultants which can be viewed on-line by going to the nFS help centre, then training and resources, and then New FamilySearch and Temple Name Submission Process Video. There are four videos to be seen which are:

1. Introduction with Elder Marlin K. Jensen

2. Temple Name Submission Process

3. Questions and Answers with Elder Marlin K. Jensen

4. Benefits of the New Temple and Family History Process

Family History Church Member challenges for 2009:

· every member of every family in the stake to be personally responsible for their own family history

· each family, lead by the patriarch if possible, to visit the Reading Family History Centre during the next 6 months to share ideas and thoughts about their family’s history.

· each family to preserve their family history in the Pedigree Resource File and share it with others around the world

· a copy of the genealogy files (GEDCOM format) that you submit will be preserved in the Granite Mountain Records Vault located near Salt Lake City

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