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Oxfordshire Family History Society

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Holford Centre Monthly Computer Open Day

If you can't get to any of our meetings, remember that we do have stands at a number of other events. Watch the list of such events on our front page. You can also visit us at the Holford Centre (our Research Centre in Stanton St.John) or at our Open Day (listed below).

General meetings Fourth Monday of most months
Computer meetings First Monday of alternate months

Most meetings take place in the Exeter Hall in Kidlington, just north of Oxford. Occasionally, bank holidays cause a change to the usual meeting routine.
General meetings in the main (large) hall start at 20:00 with the bookstall and library available for browsing from 19:15 onwards. A sound system is in use in the large hall. There is no 'General' meeting in either August or December.
Computer meetings also take place in the main (large) hall but start at 19:30 - these are flagged with an asterisk below.
2008    
28 July Workhouse Visitor’s Report – Lady Visitor c.1890 gives a detailed report, in contemporary costume, of life in the Union Workhouse Liz Carter
4 August * Scanning and Repairing Photographs Kevin Tomes 
20 September (Saturday) Open Day 10:00–16:00 in the Exeter Hall  
22 September The Oxford Historical Pageant of 1907 Martin Harris
6 October * Google - how to make more use of its facilities  The Panel
27 October Tales from the Bawdy Courts – Records of the church or ecclesiastical courts of Bishop and Archdeacon Mark Priddey
24 November Brothers In War – discovering one family’s extraordinary sacrifice in the Great War Michael Walsh
1 December * Ratcatchers to Royalty - new software for publishing your family history research Jan Power and Sarah Mercer 
2009    
26 January The Wolvercote Paper Mill
 Dr Martin Maw
23 February The Evolution of the British Army Dan Allen
23 March Cardinal Points - Cracking the Code of the GRO Marriage Index Howard Benbrook
27 April The Oxford Mail and Memory Lane John Chipperfield
18 May
(3rd Monday)		Dr Williams's LibraryDave Annal
22 June
AGM followed by:
GENUKI - the internet's UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service
 Malcolm Austen
27 JulyMy Ancestor was in the Parish Register – well they should have been!John Hanson
28 SeptemberThe resources of the London (Hyde Park) Family History CentreSharon Hintze
26 OctoberThe Great Western Railway Shareholders Index projectFrank Hardy
Past meetings

Please also note that a group meets on the second Monday of most months in Abingdon under the auspices of the Berkshire FHS. The group's meetings are listed separately. Abingdon was in Berkshire until the 1974 local government reorganisation which moved it into Oxfordshire. Abingdon also has a long-standing (but heavily disputed!) claim to be the county town of Berkshire, it still has a "County Hall".

For the "bigger picture" of Family History events around the UK (and some beyond) look at the GENUKI diary page GENEVA.

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