'How to start researching your Family History', a talk by Dave Foster of Buckinghamshire FHS, delivered by Zoom to Oxfordshire FHS on 29 June 2020
On Monday 13 March 2023 via Zoom: A light-hearted walk through a variety of genealogical records, reinforcing the value of scrutinising original documents.
A talk by Debbie Kennett by Zoom to OFHS about how to use DNA test results in family history research, given on 3 August 2020
The presentation, on 13 December 2021, by members of the Education team of the Genealogical Society of Victoria in Australia covered convict records, the bounty immigration schemes, free immigrants and the immigration schemes in the 20th century including the 10 Pound POM scheme. It also covered the resources available with emphasis on those available online.
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This talk given on 11 December 2023 over Zoom by Claire Bradley, concentrates on autosomal DNA explains the terminology, what companies offer this service, costs and how to use this tool to progress your ancestry. It finds cousins matches for you and also provides an estimate of deep ancestral ethnicity. It will also discusses the ethics of testing and considerations regarding the possibility of uncovering a family secret.
24 July 2024 - Hybrid Meeting (Exeter Hall and Zoom) - In this talk Mark Davies looks at the life of the Oxford hot-air balloon pioneer James Sadler (1753-1828), the ‘King of all Balloons’ first Englishman to fly?
This is a Zoom Meeting on 13 May 2024 with the talk starting at 8pm. Speaker John Vigar - This lecture looks at the burial places of the famous and infamous and uses their gravestones or memorials as a starting place for an investigation into their lives. Subjects range from Florence Nightingale to Jerome K Jerome and all sorts in between, including some John feels need to be better known.
This talk, given on 24 January 2022, examined how in the mid nineteenth century changes in employment practices and rising real wages meant that ordinary working people found themselves, usually for the first time, with leisure time and with spare money to spend on recreation. This talk describes where and how Oxford citizens spent their free time, and how the middle classes attempted to impose ‘rational recreation’ on their working-class contemporaries.
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On Monday 26 October 2020, John Titterton discussed wills and associated documents, the meaning of their contents and how they can help build family trees using case studies from the Titterton family of Staffordshire and Derbyshire. A write-up of the talk and the Titterton will documents are available to view here.
This is a Hybrid meeting on the 22 April 2024 with the talk starting at 8pm (UK Time). Speaker: Dr Sophie Kay. Focusing on her Outlier Method and Ancestral Walks techniques, Sophie will show how by uniting historical maps with historical records you may spot research errors, separate out namesakes, understand our ancestors & bring their worlds to life, all using freely available, historical Ordnance Survey maps. Examples will focus on U.K. towns for the period 1800-1950, but these methods can be applied to any place or era where suitable maps and address data are available.
As a family my branch of the Page family did not take many photographs. However, I would like to share some with you.
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This is Zoom meeting given to the society on 11 March 2024, speaker Debbie Bradley. A practical talk about things you need to think about to find your ancestors if they moved around the country.
On Monday 11 September 2023 over Zoom: John will take us beyong the peace and serenity offered by our parish churches and look at some of the countless images of Murder, Sex and Mayhem that he has come across in his travels. From medieval murals and stained glass depict the martyrdom of saints from home and abroad, and the grisliest of dooms. At a lower level may be found misericords showing whippings, wife beatings, and brawls. Finally there are many monuments and memorials that show scenes of murder and mayhem in goodly measure including stagecoach crashes, bridge collapses, falling trees, falling bridges, falling chimneys, shootings, stabbings, mine collapses, shipwrecks and explosions.
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OFHS members' special discount for historic Oxford Map
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 until 14th February 2022.
New surname sheets giving details of the surname's history and Oxfordshire occurrence are becoming available.