Here is where you can keep up to date on all the latest news from OFHS. We display the most recent news items in this top category. If you want to look through the news by subject type, browse the list of news categories, which include older news items. (Bear in mind that some of the links to external websites may no longer work.)
20 December 2021
The OFHS journal, The Oxfordshire Family Historian, is now available online to all OFHS members. Please log in to the Members’ Area to see it.
20 December 2021
The following surname interests have been added to the Oxfordshire Surname List www.oxsil.org.uk in November. if any of them are ...
10 December 2021
The new OFHS book on surnames will be available in the spring of 2022. However OFHS members can pre-order it at a special members' discount before the end of January 2022.
24 November 2021
Wendy Archer, a former chairman of OFHS, has provided this brief tribute to Joan Howard-Drake, who died recently at the age of 97.
19 November 2021
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in October. If any of them are ...
06 October 2021
Membership offer - join in October and get 15 months for the price of 12.
03 October 2021
71 new wills have been added, plus 3 replacements. The list of “new” surnames can be seen below. All can be found as usual at the OFHS Wills Library
22 September 2021
Oxfordshire County Council is consulting the public on re-imagining its libraries, museums and history services. We’d love to hear your ideas and suggestions on how The Oxfordshire Museum's and Oxfordshire History Centre’s services could be improved
14 September 2021
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in August. If any of them are ...
24 August 2021
The new August 2021 journal is available to members
09 August 2021
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in July
09 August 2021
Devon Noel Lee (#1 genealogy YouTube channel – Family History Fanatics) and Lisa Louise Cooke (#1 genealogy podcast – Genealogy ...
07 August 2021
If you have missed our annual get together in The Marlborough School, Woodstock, here is your chance to catch up with fellow family historians. The Executive has decided to hold a virtual Fair via Zoom on Saturday 2nd October 2021. It is free to all.
28 July 2021
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in June. If any of them are of interest, please go to the OXSIL website and search for the contributor.
17 July 2021
The Oxford Historical Society's summer sale is now open. It will close at the end of August.
06 July 2021
Another 70-odd new wills have been added with a list of “new” surnames.
17 June 2021
Photos of Surnames on Signs/Shops/Vans We need help. As part of our upcoming book on Oxfordshire surnames we want clear images ...
17 June 2021
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in May. If any of them are ...
09 June 2021
The following additions were made to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List www.oxsil.org.uk If any of them are of interest, please go ...
22 April 2021
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in March. If any of them are ...
08 April 2021
61 new wills have been added, plus one update
07 April 2021
The latest OFHS journal is now available online in the Members’ Area. It contains articles on family reconstruction using wills, first names in Oxfordshire families, an enterprising schoolteacher in Idbury and a few mysterious tales as well as plenty of news.
29 March 2021
The Museum of Oxford is running a series of online talks.
12 March 2021
OXSIL additions to the beginning of March 2021
17 February 2021
As part of the surname project we have started to publish individual surname reports. They are available to OFHS members only.
17 February 2021
Latest updates from OXSIL as of the beginning of February 2021
22 January 2021
The latest additions to OXSIL up to the end of December 2020
04 January 2021
DNA Zoom conference from Texas being held on 30 January 2021
08 December 2020
OFHS December 2020 journal is now online
08 December 2020
New names added to OXSIL in November/early December 2020
