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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.
2010    
8 February *
(Second Monday)		 Why have a computer? What can it do for you? Computer Group Panel
22 February The Wesleyan Methodist Historic Roll – an underused source for family historians
(NB this is a change of talk from that originally published here.)		 Richard Ratcliffe
22 March Your Ancestors, Population and Birth Control Colin Chapman
12 April *
(Second Monday)		 See where your ancestors lived & died – An exploration in pictures on the web Wendy Archer
26 April The Italian Connection Philippa McCray
24 May Forgery in the archives David Thomas
7 June * The OFHS Monumental Inscription CDs and how we make them Alan Simpson
28 June AGM followed by:
Fred Lewis – scouting and baseball in Chipping Norton		 Alan Watkins
26 July The ABC of Disease, Decline and Death Joan Grundy
2 August * Researching in the darkness and silence – How blind and
deaf genealogists use their computers		 Jon Nixey
27 September  From Headington to Hitler: An Ordinary Man in an Extraordinary War Phil Angell
4 October * Digital resources at OxS and ORO Mark Lawrence
25 October The turbulent lifetime of Thomas Vachell Tony Hadland
22 November Getting to know your Army ancestors via photographs and memorabilia Graham Bandy
6 December * Getting the best from your Family History Computing –
Hands On problem solving		 Computer Group Members
2011    
24 January Death and taxes: an introduction to the Death Duty records Dave Annal
28 February Worship, Weird & Wonderful – Religious Sects from the 17th to 20th Century
 Alec Tritton
28 March Burford and its Buildings Dr Simon Townley
April t.b.a.  
23 May Henley in the Eighteenth Century Dr Simon Townley
27 June The Saga of the Beckinghams and Kaiser Bill Alex McGahey
25 July Thirty-five years of the Oxfordshire Family Historian Tony Hadland
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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