Maxbal Genealogy is located in Reading, Berkshire, England approximately 35 miles from London.

Our location gives us readily available access to many of the records offices and repositories in the south east of England including The National Archives (TNA) located in Kew.

We regularly visit many of the record offices such as Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Wiltshire and the London repositories such as TNA on client assignments and are familiar with many of the more distant records offices such as Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Pembrokeshire.

Can We Find Your Ancestors?

In the majority of cases we will have a great deal of success in tracing your ancestors to the 18th century, and sometimes even earlier. We cannot guarantee complete success in every case as we have to rely on the existence of the written records. In some cases they are just not there. They may have been lost, destroyed or your ancestors may not have wanted the authorities to know of certain things such as a bigamous marriage or the father's name of an illegitimate child.

The Records We Search

When carrying out an assignment for our Research Packages some the more common records that we use are: -

• Information supplied by you

• Civil Registration Index of births marriages and deaths which began on 1st July 1837

• Birth, marriage and Death certificates purchased to prove family relationships

• UK census returns for 1841,1851,1861,1871,1881,1891 and 1901

• International Genealogical Index

• Debt of Honour Register of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

• Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384 - 1858)

• TNA Military Records

• Parish Records

• Ships passenger lists

There are many more record sets available to us which we use for specific research in our Premium Research Package and for bespoke customer assignments.

Information From You

To carry out the research we will need some information from you. The more information that you are able to supply us with the more focused our research can be in finding those missing ancestors of yours.

You can find the forms here for submitting your information to us.

We treat any information that you supply us with as completely confidential and will not disclose it to any third party unless you have given us specific written instructions to do so. We comply with current legislation and the requirements of the Data Protection Act to ensure that your information remains confidential.

When providing us with information you should not send original documents, only copies.

Our Research Network

Family history research is rarely concentrated in one location and often requires a search to be carried out in multiple record archives. To provide you with an efficient and cost effective service we have a network of research partners with the experience of researching in their own local records archive.

Who We Work With