Colleagues
The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 222 September 2014. It will be held at the usual venue at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15pm for coffee, the bookstall and computer help.
The subject of the talk at 8.00pm will be :-
Brick walls and lost ancestors: problem solving for family historians
This will be presented by Dave Annal.
Dave tells me that even the luckiest of family historians will come up against brick walls from time to time. We’ve all experienced the feeling that our ancestors appeared from thin air. His talk will aim to show that everyone left a paper trail and that it’s almost always possible to find it. Dave will introduce a number of strategies to help you get around the brick walls and dead ends in your research, paying particular attention to getting the most out of online databases and advanced techniques such as ‘family reconstruction’.
Our speaker Dave Annal has been involved in the family history world for more than thirty years in a number of different roles: he has worked as a professional researcher since 1984 and was employed by The National Archives at the Family Records Centre and at Kew, where he was TNA’s Principal Family History Specialist. He is the author of ten family history books, and is an experienced lecturer. Dave is currently working on a new book on death duty registers, while running his research business, Lifelines Research.
All members, potential members and their guests are welcome.
For directions as to how to get to the Exeter Hall, please see :-
http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.htmlFor a list of future OFHS meetings, please see :-
http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.htmlAny queries, please contact me.
Paul Gaskell
Publicity Officer
Oxfordshire Family History Society
www.ofhs.org.uk
