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.)
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
17 November 2020
Wills and related documents for the following surnames have been added.
16 November 2020
New names added to OXSIL at the end of October 2020
08 October 2020
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in July to September 2020. If any of ...
14 September 2020
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in July to September 2020. If any ...
31 August 2020
Following Hugh Kearsey's sad decease, his family has published that donations, if desired, may be given in Hugh's memory for the Cotswold Canals Trust
31 August 2020
The Society is saddened to report the death of Hugh Kearsey, our President, in late July.
11 August 2020
The August journal has gone out to members and is available as a PDF file in our Members' Area. You can receive your own copy three times per year by joining the Society.
11 August 2020
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List - www.oxsil.org.uk - in July. If any of them are of interest, please click on the name of the researcher and follow the suggestions you will find on their profile page.
05 August 2020
A further 79 wills have been added, plus two updates. As always, they can be found at https://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/index.html
10 July 2020
A list of the surnames which were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List in June.
11 June 2020
At the OFHS Executive meeting on the 3 June the decision was taken to not hold our annual Fair this year
09 June 2020
Sue Honoré, the Society’s journal editor, will be talking about family history on David Prever’s Breakfast Club in the 9am ...
08 June 2020
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List in May. If any of them are of interest, please ...
02 June 2020
Although lockdown is starting to ease, it is clear that we will not be restarting meetings in the Exeter Hall ...
31 May 2020
Oxfordshire Family History Society has just a few copies left of The Changing Faces of Bicester Book Two. The book is full ...
20 May 2020
Over 60 wills have been added to the wills library with the following surnames: ADDERTON ALLOM BASSON BEDWINNE BLACKWELL BROOKE BROOKES BROOKS BURTON COPPIN COPPOCK GOM GOMM HADDOCKS HASTINGS HIAT JEFFERYS KINGE LIPSCOMB MORTIMER OWINNE PAYN RAFE RAINBOW ROBINS ROSE RUSHE SAUNDERS SHAYLER SHERBORNE SHERLY SHIRLY SHURBON SHURLEY SLADE SOUNDY STANDBRIDGE STEVENS TAYLOR TOOGOOD TYMMES WALTER WARD WARDE WATER WATTS WHYSKER WIGGALL WILLIAMES WILLIAMS WIRGE WYSCARDE YONGE YOUNG They can be accessed from our wills ...
