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INTERESTED IN YOUR FAMILY HISTORY IN OXFORDSHIRE ? Then why not join the Oxfordshire Family History Society ! Members receive the society's journal, the "Oxfordshire Family Historian", three times a year, and an occasional miscellaneous publication too. We have an extensive transcription and indexing programme, and publish a wide range of books, microfiche, CDs and DVDs. Monthly meetings are held with guest speakers and an opportunity to use some of the members' services - to receive help and advice about computing in family history, to make purchases from the extensive bookstall, and to borrow books and the journals of other family history societies from our library. Our next annual Open Day will be held on Saturday 26 September 2009 at the Marlborough Enterprise Centre in the historic town of Woodstock. This is a splendid opportunity to learn more about our society, and to utilise our “Search Services”, a database of indexes to the census, baptisms, marriages, burials and monumental inscriptions in Oxfordshire and North Berkshire. Other attractions include around thirty guest stallholders, computing demonstrations and advice about using the internet in family history and the use of genealogical software packages. Further details can be found on the society website.
The National Archives has announced arrangements for free access to the 1911 census information at the following locations:
Before planning a trip, visitors are urged to contact the relevant institution to find out when the service will be available. Archives for the 21st Century In May The National Archives released the long-awaited consultation document ‘Archives for the 21st Century’ via its website
The redeveloped web pages identify the wide range of resources and services provided by the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, State Library of Tasmania and Adult Education including birth, death and marriage data, convict records, wills, arrivals, departures, cemetery and military records and other information sources providing information about the lives of Tasmanians as well as links to find information on relatives from interstate and other countries. With so many resources already digitised, the Family History Portal enables access to many Tasmanian records with a click of the mouse and for those resources that are not yet digitised the portal provides information on how they can be accessed. To help people who are just getting started in family history research, the portal provides a beginners' guide to family history research as well as downloadable forms to help keep track of the research records you have accessed which are useful for beginner and established researchers alike. Explore Tasmania's rich history and heritage online and discover something new about your background at the Family History Portal.
Searching for ideas for a day out with your children or grandchildren? Why not consider a visit to the Horrible Histories: Terrible Trenches exhibition which is on at the Imperial War Museum, London until October 2010? The exhibition is based on Terry Deary’s book Horrible Histories: Trenches Handbook, a survival guide to trench life. “Kids of all ages can test their survival skills in an interactive gallery which explores the dire details of life in the blood and mud of the Western Front. Find out how soldiers coped with foul food, legions of lice, gruesome gas, sickness and sores.” Filled with artefacts, both real and replica the text and cartoons of Deary’s book are brought to life. Bound to fuel the imagination, why not use the exhibition to encourage a spot of research into an ancestor who served in WW1?
If you have South African connections then a visit to Ancestry 24 is a must! Ancestry24 offers the most comprehensive ancestral and genealogical online service available in South Africa. It’s databases contain millions of records relevant to South African family researchers.
The War Graves Photographic Project (TWGPP) This is a volunteer organisation, working with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, with the aim of photographing every British and Commonwealth war grave, individual memorial, MoD grave and family memorial of serving military personnel from WW1 to the present day and make them available within a searchable database. This is an enormous undertaking and with over 1.75 million graves and memorials to photograph, the organisation always welcomes volunteers. The grave locations vary between large War Cemeteries such as Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium, which contains nearly 12,000 graves; and the smallest maintained isolated site on Skyros in Greece, which contains the remains of only Rupert Brooke. This is an invaluable resource for family historians especially those for whom visiting an ancestors grave or memorial is impossible. more information about the project and to search the database >
1901 census
completed for England & Wales - 24 counties added
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> CHARITIES ACT 2006- PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ANNUAL REPORT Trustees of all charities with financial year ends falling after 1 April 2009 must include a statement that they are carrying out their objectives (aims) for the ‘ public benefit’. The amount of detail will depend upon whether the charities accounts need to be audited or not. Most family history societies will not need to have their accounts audited in accordance with the Charities Acts, although an independent examination of their financial statements will be required. For societies, below the audit threshold, trustees are required to include a brief summary, in their Trustees’ Annual Report how in practice those aims have been carried out for ‘the public benefit’. It is important to report in the Trustees Annual Report to members just that and to give examples of successes. This is borne out by the report in July 2009 by the CC called ‘Emerging findings for charity trustees from the Charity Commission's public benefit assessment work: 2008-09’. It is well worth reading the examples given and the approach adopted by the CC. for a link to finding the assessment process adopted by the CC > more information via the FFHS website > CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATIONS (CIOs) The charities commission promised a report on the responses to its consultation paper into the secondary legislation required to implement the Charities Act 2006 proposals for CIOs before the end of April 2009. The Office of the Third Sector, which is responsible for the introduction of these new incorporated bodies, has confirmed to FFHS that the report is overdue but it will be published, hopefully, in September. A large number of changes to the original proposals are being drafted as a result of the consultation. The first CIO may be incorporated in April 2010 read on > |
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Cataloguing guidelines have recently been published by the Community Archives and Heritage Group.
Carlisle Record Office It’s official – Cumbria has too much history!
Another 1,000 Kent churchyard memorial inscriptions have been added to the Kent Archaeological Society’s website
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THE DOOR & Join us at the International Local and Family History Conference hosted by the Halsted Trust 28-31 August 2009. Activities include internationally renouned speakers; book signings; trawl the stalls; quizzes and prize draws; if you can’t make it for the whole conference come for the day. Walk-ins accepted. for more information >
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the It was a pleasure to be invited as part of the 200 strong team from Wales to participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Mall. A once in a lifetime opportunity as only one country is chosen each year – Scotland featured in 2003, Northern Ireland in 2007 and Wales this year. Four of us from The National Library of Wales were invited to promote Welsh Family History because of the strong connections between Wales and America.
Did you get married in In the April Edition of the Ezine we reported on a new Wedding fashion website set up by the Victoria and Albert Museum in advance of an exhibition to be held in 2011. Unfortunately the exhibition has been put back until 2013, however, the website is proving to be a great success with over 450 photos uploaded to date. As well as providing a database which will be useful to fashion historians it is sure to be of assistance to family historians in dating their own family photographs. Gail Durbin of the V& A is keen for more images of weddings during the 1980’s to be uploaded to the website.
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