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New help session starts at Wychwood Library
Advisor/help session opens at Wychwood Library
New advisor service open in Carterton
New advisor sessions for Carterton, 10:00am to 1:00pm first and third Tuesdays.
Advisors & Helpdesks
OFHS run advisor sessions at Oxfordshire History Centre (OHC), Cowley and various libraries around the county of Oxfordshire. The OHC sessions are drop-in sessions with no requirement to book. The sessions in the libraries need to be booked in advance by contacting the relevant library.
Mentoring Scheme
On the 2 October last year I posted regarding a proposed mentoring scheme that the OFHS Executive feels would provide ...
Oxfordshire History Centre - closed Tue 31 Oct 2017
Please note that the Oxfordshire History Centre (St Luke’s, Cowley) will be closed on Tuesday 31 October
OFHS Mentoring Scheme
The OFHS Executive has discussed introducing a mentoring scheme for members of the Society as an additional benefit to members. ...
The London Family History Show - Sunday 24 September 2017
The above event will be held at Sandown Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, between 10am and 4.30pm. Find out more at TheFamilyHistoryShow.com. Oxfordshire ...
Bicester Potted Histories, Saturday 18 March
Tomorrow, Saturday 18 March, there will be a pop-up history exhibition at Bicester Library under the aegis of Oxfordshire Museum ...
Oxford at War 1914-1918 Roadshow, Oxford, Saturday 12 November
Oxford at War 1914-1918 Roadshow will be in Oxford this Saturday, 12 November. Do you have any WW1 memorabilia you ...
Our new helpdesk flyer
We have a new helpdesk flyer, which will shortly reach the Oxfordshire libraries. We hope this will encourage new clients to ...
Family History Helpdesk in the new Bicester library
Next week, and each week thereafter, Oxfordshire FHS will have an advisor, Pat Ford, on duty in the new Bicester ...
Oxfordshire FHS Family History Helpdesks around Oxfordshire
The Westgate library has now closed til late 2017, and with it our advisor Helpdesk service. Thanks to all the ...
Advice at Oxfordshire History Centre
Mick Dumbleton, one of the OFHS advisors at the Oxfordshire History Centre, helping Bruce Tayler from New Zealand to research ...
Weather warning
Due to the likely hood of travel difficulties, there will be no OFHS help desk at the Oxfordshire History Centre ...

New Wills added to the Library - May 2023
Launch of expanded version of Heritage Search – new historic mapping
Additions to OXSIL April 2023
New surname reports available to members
Additions to OXSIL March 2023
Additions to OXSIL February 2023
Victoria County History - talk on Chipping Norton at 7pm, 17th April 2023
The Society's Annual General Meeting Monday 26th June 2023
Their Finest Hour Project - Second World War Digital Collections Day - 1st April 2023
New help session starts at Wychwood Library
Additions to OXSIL January 2023
Additions to the Wills library January 2023
New publication from Oxfordshire Record Society
Additions to OXSIL November 2022
Oxfordshire History Centre Closures Christmas 2022 & Jan/Feb 2023
Buy our surname book as a Christmas present
December 2022 journal now available online
Additions to OXSIL in October 2022
New advisor service open in Carterton
New Heritage Search - Oxfordshire History Centre
Additions to OXSIL September 2022
Hugh Kearsey Prize for 2023 - start writing
Oxfordshire FHS - new CD of Great Tew MIs
OXSIL updates in August 2022
August 2022 journal in Members' Area
Updates to OXSIL July 2022
Oxfordshire Surnames Book has arrived
Oxfordshire Surnames book delay
Additions to OFHS Wills Library May 2022
Updates to OXSIL April 2022
Oxfordshire FHS - new CD of MIs in Bampton Aston, Cote Baptist Chapel, Bampton Lew and Shifford
One Name Studies webinar on Oxfordshire surnames project
April 2022 journal available for members
Updates to OXSIL March 2022
Updates to OXSIL February 2022
Discount on latest VCH volume - Caversham, Goring and area
Historical Town Map of Oxford - Special offer for members
BBC Radio Oxford interview on Surnames Book
OFHS book "Exploring Oxfordshire Surnames" available to pre-order
OFHS discount closing soon
Updates to OXSIL January 2022
Additions to OFHS Wills Library February 2022
Hugh Kearsey Award - deadline 30 March 2022
New Oxfordshire surname book - 2 weeks left
New OFHS Surname book
Joan Howard-Drake
Additions to OXSIL October 2021
Additions to OFHS Wills Library October 2021
Libraries and Archives Consultation - your help needed
OXSIL - additions in August 2021
August 2021 OFHS Journal
Additions to OXSIL July 2021
US online genealogy conference
OFHS Fair 2 October 2021
Additions to OXSIL June 2021
Oxford Historical Society's summer sale
Additions to OFHS Wills Library July 2021
Searching for images of surname signs
Additions to OXSIL early June 2021
Additions to OXSIL May 2021
Additions to OXSIL early April 2021
Additions to OFHS Wills Library - April 2021
OFHS April Journal now available
Additions to OXSIL early March 2021
Individual Surname Reports
OXSIL updates beginning of February 2021
Additions to OXSIL to end of December 2020
US DNA Conference on Zoom
OFHS December 2020 Journal now available
New names on OXSIL - Early December 2020
Additions to OFHS Wills Library - November 2020
OXSIL - surnames added end October 2020
Additions to OXSIL Early October 2020
OXSIL additions September 2020
Collection in memory of Hugh Kearsey
Dr Hugh Kearsey 1931-2020
August 2020 Oxfordshire Family Historian
Surnames added to OXSIL July 2020
Additions to Wills Library August 2020
Surnames added to OXSIL June 2020
OFHS Fair 2 October 2021
OFHS on Radio Oxford today - Friday 9 June 2020
Surnames added to OXSIL late May 2020
COVID-19 the continuing saga
The Changing Faces of Bicester Book Two
Additions to Wills Library May 2020
Surnames added to OXSIL April/May 2020
Digital Resources for Oxfordshire History
Additions to Wills Library March 2020
December 2019 and April 2020 Journals
COVID-19
Shipwreck off Tasmania: the loss of 95 migrants from Oxfordshire – 175 years on
Sculls, skiffs and steamers: the history of Salter’s Steamers
Wychwood Forest and Area: Landscape and People 1000-1900 – Oxfordshire FHS Talk – 24 February 2020
DNA Webinar
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