Oxfordshire Family History Society

Oxfordshire Family History Society will be attending THE Genealogy Show - it promises to be an exciting event. We will have our CDs of Parish Records and Monumental Inscriptions on sale together with the full range of Black Sheep Books. We will also be providing a search service to help find that elusive ancestor. We look forward to seeing you.
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The Berkshire Echo is the newsletter of the Berkshire Record Office, with past issues back to 2008 at
https://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/ berkshire-echo
The April 2019 Echo is at
... https://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/ …/BRO-Berkshire-Ec…
The current issue focusses on Women’s suffrage in Berkshire, and there is also a 'New to the Archives' section, detailing recent acquisitions of the Record Office. One such is a deed (dated 1670) relating to Caversham, then in Oxfordshire but now in Berkshire, which has a seal wrapped in sycamore leaves, almost certainly dating from the late 17th century, but still in excellent condition.
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Audrey Collins, working at The National Archives (UK), has posted on Twitter about finding the script of the Registrar General's broadcast to the nation on the evening of 29 September 1939, National Registration Night.
You can listen to it, read by an actor, at https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/… /1939-national-regi…/, where you can, if you prefer, read a transcript of the broadcast.
... There are some wonderful sentences -
"I hope that nobody will be coy about their date of birth."
"After the schedules have been collected, Ration Books will be written from them and posted to the address for which the return was made. The Ration Books may not be posted for some weeks. If you remove before receiving a Ration Book you cannot expect it to follow you about like a pet lamb."
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Mark Lawrence will talk about 'Picture Oxon' on Monday, 20 May 2019, to Oxfordshire Family History Society members and visitors at Kidlington.
Oxfordshire History Centre’s photographic archive traces its origins to the Oxford City Library of the 1890s in St Aldate’s. The archive rapidly expanded through the 20th century acquisitions of Taunt, Packer and Thomas collections, affording substantial coverage of our region, from Cotswolds to Chilterns and right through the Thames V...alley. Gaining its first online presence via the Heritage Search website in 2007, our photographic archive now looks to Picture Oxon at http://pictureoxon.com/ to provide a catalogue of 400,000 images of local people, places and buildings. Picture Oxon’s resources include not only photographs, but engravings, drawings and maps too. Our work of saving, collecting and recording photographic imagery of the county never stops, and the enthusiasm and effort of volunteers helps us to extend public access through the scanning and cataloguing of otherwise untapped collections. In future we look forward to more public involvement in our work, with sharing of content, effort and expertise, all directed towards a more effective capturing of our pictorial past and present.
Mark Lawrence is joint Manager of Oxfordshire History Centre, Oxfordshire County Council’s public archive and local history library.
We meet at the Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, OX5 1AB, with the meeting starting at 8:00pm.
Doors open at 7:15pm, when there will be advisors offering computer and genealogy help, a selection of maps and Black Sheep books for sale, and tea and coffee available.
Non-members of the Society are always welcome! We have, though, introduced a non-member entrance fee of £2, to contribute to the hall hire & speaker costs.
For those unable to attend our meetings, we aim to put a synopsis of each talk in our Members Own Area (the MOA), at https://moa.ofhs.org.uk/ shortly after the talk.
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The May Oxfordshire Local History Association newsletter has details of their study day and AGM in May, open to all, at Shipton under Wychwood, plus news of exhibitions, archives, talks, transcripts of interviews and more across the county. Plenty of opportunities to have a good day or evening out!
Do look at the Association's website, and consider joining and supporting them too. www.olha.org.uk
And congratulations on their very topical morris men May Day photo!
... https://mailchi.mp/c003b174a61d/olha-e-bu lletin-may-2019
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Founder members of Gloucestershire Family History Society cutting the 40th birthday cake. Colin Chapman on the left.

Happy 40th Birthday party to Gloucestershire Family History Society from Oxfordshire Family History Society!

And some photos from Bucks FHS from #FamilyTreeLive

Good to see #FamilyTreeLive in action!

Oxfordshire FHS is sad to hear of the decease of Gill King, a member from Bicester. A tribute has been published in the Oxford Mail, written by Matthew Hathaway of Bicester Local History Society: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/…/17599782 .tribute-to-biceste…/

Michael Gandy will talk about 'Name Lists of the 17th and 18th centuries' on Monday, 29 April 2019, to Oxfordshire Family History Society and visitors at Kidlington.
From Jury lists through Tithes to Oaths of Loyalty, most of our ancestors appear time and time again on governement and local lists. This talk explains many possibilities for researchers.
We meet at the Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, OX5 1AB, with the meeting starting at 8:00pm.
... Doors open at 7:15pm, when there will be advisors offering computer and genealogy help, a selection of Black Sheep books, and maps, for sale, and tea and coffee available.
Non-members of the Society are always welcome! We have, though, introduced a non-member entrance fee of £2, to contribute to the hall hire & speaker costs.
For those unable to attend our meetings, we aim to put a synopsis of each talk in our Members Own Area (the MOA), at https://moa.ofhs.org.uk/ shortly after the talk.
Print is "Canvassing for Votes", engraved by Charles Grignion 1757
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Thanks to Graham A. Walter for letting us share this :-)

Oxfordshire FHS all set up and ready to go, with our CDs, books, and county-wide databases at Family Tree Live at Alexandra Palace. Today's team in the photos - Dave Wedd, John Cramer, June Whipp, Sue Honore. The Show's a two day event, and we'll be there tomorrow, Saturday, too. For more details, see https://www.family-tree.co.uk/ftre/show/f amily-tree-live

A handwriting course, and not far from Oxfordshire.

The April Oxfordshire Family Historian has been published, with a taster version, with only some of the articles, at http://www.ofhs.org.uk/j/OFH_Vol33_1_tast er.pdf. A digital version is in the Members Own Area, at https://moa.ofhs.org.uk/tiki-download_fil e.php?fileId=591
The Contents List is: OFHS News Scene Around... Oxfordshire Manorial Documents Register Project ......................................... ............by Dr Virginia Bainbridge Oxfordshire War Memorials................by John L Blakeman The Life of a Delegacy Mentor...........by Christopher Fance From Jamaica to Oxford: Family Reunited ......................................... ........................by Elizabeth Mills Shadrach Bridges: A Kingham Railwayman. ......................................... ..........................by Brian Bridges Vicars, Summertown, Global Travel, Scandal and Mrs Tiggy-winkle............................. .....................by Sue Honoré My Oxfordshire Family History Research 1979-2019 ......................................... ....................by Ros Fitton-Wood The Troubled Life of George Boddington....by Terry Pratley The 1939 Register................................. ........by Kevin Poile The Westons of Steeple Aston.....................by David Blake The Arms of Hugh de Hauville of Garsington ......................................... .....................by Kevin G L Havell Upcoming Meetings Book Reviews Useful Addresses Who’s Who in Oxfordshire FHS Diary Dates Meetings at Exeter Hall
If this has led you to consider joining the Society, you might like to look at https://www.ofhs.org.uk/introduction.html
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Any views on this new "visual identity" for The National Archives?

Family Tree Live takes place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April at Alexandra Palace, London. There are over 120 exhibitors, and the event provides an extensive range of lectures included in the price of the admission ticket (£12 if bought in advance). Full details of the show can be found at https://www.family-tree.co.uk/ftre/show/f amily-tree-live/. You can book tickets for the show at https://www.family-tree.co.uk/…/s…/fa mily-tree-live/book-now. A video about the Show is at https://www.facebook.com/events/569744646 715638/
Oxfordshire FHS will be attending what promises to be an exciting event. We will have our CDs of Parish Records and Monumental Inscriptions on sale together with the full range of Black Sheep Books. We will also be providing a search service to help find that elusive ancestor. We look forward to seeing you.