Two cycles of  pedigree selection were applied to the F₃ generation of two barley crosses. The objective of this investigation was to improve grain weight, spikes number/plant and days to heading using the pedigree selection. Highly significant differences among the F₃ families and sufficient genotypic coefficient of variability were detected for days to heading, spike length, number of spikes/plant, number of kernels/spike, 1000- kernel weight and grain weight/plant in both populations. Broad sense heritabilities were high for days to heading and moderate for number of spikes/plant and grain weight of both populations. Heritability and predicted genetic gain upon selection decreased from F₃ to F₅ generation for the three selection criteria of both populations. The realized gains showed that days to heading was earlier by 4.16% in the first population and 2.76 % in the second one after two cycles compared to the bulk sample. Selection for more spikes/plant after two cycles increased the merit of selection by 10.88% in the first population and 5.07 % in the second population compared to the bulk of F₃ families. Direct selection for grain weight /plant showed realized response to selection reached  to 7.57% and 7.60% from the bulk sample and accounted 6.59 and 2.41% from the best parent in population 1 and 2 , respectively. Family No. 66 in the first population yielded 13.07 % more than the bulk and was earlier than it by 5.58 % and family No. 92 in the second population could be considered the best selected family which had 6.45% increase in grain weight and was earlier than the bulk sample by 5.88%. Pedigree selection was an efficient selection procedure for increasing the mean of the character under selection and affected the other related characters.