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.)
23 February 2024
OFHS Fair information page - stallholders and services for Saturday 26th October 2024
19 February 2024
OFHS response to the proposal to destroy original Wills documents
19 February 2024
February 2024 - 92 more Wills added to the Oxfordshire Wills library thanks to Dave Beames.
07 February 2024
Names added to OXSIL January 2024
07 February 2024
New illustrated MI CD and download available for Wootton, Glympton and Kiddington.
23 January 2024
OFHS Annual General Meeting 2024 is announced and calling notice for nominations.
03 January 2024
Third year for the Hugh Kearsey Award - submit your entries before 30 March 2024
02 January 2024
Additional names added to OXSIL December 2023
01 January 2024
New MI for Great Haseley now available on both CD and download
31 December 2023
New wills added to the Oxfordshire Wills Library December 2023
23 December 2023
Oxfordshire Family Historian December 2023 now available on-line.
14 December 2023
The Oxfordshire History Centre will be closed at 4.30pm on Thursday 21 December 2023 and will reopen at 9.30am on Tuesday 2 January 2024. Stocktaking closure is Tuesday 23 January 2024- Saturday 3 February 2024.
04 December 2023
New surnames added to Oxfordshire Surname Interest List in November 2023
29 November 2023
Excellent new resource - Interactive mapping from Heritage Search suite and VCH volumes
28 November 2023
Cutting edge new Oxfordshire Names Database project is announced.
18 October 2023
This is a list, with links, of the previous courses and talks that have been given to members of Oxfordshire Family History Society that were recorded. Links to the recordings can be found on the relevant page in the Members' Area of the website.
02 October 2023
New and updates to the Wills Library are available - October 2023
29 September 2023
New surnames added to OXSIL in September 2023
29 September 2023
Join now and get 15 months for the price of 12
29 September 2023
On 22 October 2023 Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO) in Woodstock will unveil a new display to celebrate some of the county’s most remarkable heroes
16 August 2023
New additions to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List for July 2023
04 August 2023
Victoria County History - Newsletter for Oxfordshire Summer 2023
01 August 2023
80 New Wills added to library July 2023
11 July 2023
New additions to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List in June 2023
22 May 2023
More new names and information added to Wills Library.
19 May 2023
A free mapping platform providing base layers of historic Ordnance Survey mapping now available at Heritage Search
05 May 2023
Names added to the Oxfordshire Surnames Interest List in April are listed here.
03 May 2023
New surname reports now available
14 April 2023
New surname sheets giving details of the surname's history and Oxfordshire occurrence are becoming available.
14 April 2023
New additions to OXSIL surname interest list March 2023