Previous Talks with Recordings

The following list details previous talks to OFHS that have recordings available in the Members’ Area of the website.   To access the page with the recording simply click on the name of the talk.
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Multi-part Courses:

• Family History for Beginners Course – by: Jessicia Fienstein
• Advanced Family History Skills Course – by: Jessicia Fienstein

Recorded Talks (latest first):

• Royal Navy Service Records (an introduction to a complex subject) – by: Ian Waller
• The Richest Man in Oxford – James Ryman – by: Gareth Winrow
• What’s that job – by: Dr Sophie Kay
• Forgotten Staff – Victorian and Edwardian Railwaywomen – By: Dr David Turner.
• Some Binsey Whimsy – by: Mark Davies
• Publishing on the Web – by: John Hanson
• Over the Hills to Glory: The story of the Ascott Martyrs – by: Caroline Anderson
• School Log Books – by: Malcolm Graham
• Useful software tools for family history research – by: Phil Isherwood
• The work of the Relieving Officer in the Bletchingdon district – by: Charles Eldridge
• Charting Companion – by: Pierre Clouthier
• Quarter Session Records – by: Ian Waller
• The future of Family History – by: Dr Nick Barratt
• Tracing your Quaker ancestors – by: Ben Beck
• Whats new in Family Tree Maker (2019) – by: Mark Olsen
• Endell Street:  The trailblazing women who ran World War One’s most remarkable military hospital – by: Wendy Moore
• Ancestry DNA – How to make the best use of your DNA matches – by: Charles Eldridge
• South African Genealogical Records – by: Jessicia Fienstein
• Family Tree Drawing – by: David Hobro
• The 1921 Census – by: Brian Donovan
• Bletchingdon: A Village Study – by: Charles Eldridge
• Immigration to Australia: 1788 to 1970 – by: Genealogical Society of Victoria
• Armistice 1918 and After: Some Local Perspectives – by: Stephen Barker
• How to build a Reseach Plan – by: Phil Isherwood
• Agricutural Labourers – by: Ian Waller
• ‘Princes of Plants’: the Bobart family and Oxford’s 400-year-old Botanic Garden – by: Mark Davies
• Dating & Understanding your old family photographs – by: Steve Gill
• Research at home using Oxfordshire Libraries’ online resources – by: Paul Gaskell
• The Gentleman’s Magazine – by: Julian Pooley
• Opening the Dore – by: John Frearson
• The Commonwealth Gap: Issues researching your ancestors around the period of the English Civil Wars – by: Else Churchill
• How do I find out about my Methodist Ancestors? – by John Lenton
• On the right tracks – Railway Workers – by: Ian Waller
• The Value of NLS Maps in Family History Research – by: Chris Fleet
• A Gentleman would not like it: The History of Restraint in Mental Health Care – by: Sarah Chaney
• Christmas Food & Drink Through the Ages – by:  Sylvia Levi & Simon Fowler
• GENUKI – What is it and how can it help you – Malcolm Austen
• Organising Your Research with Evernote – by: Phil Isherwood
• Half the Wealth of England – by: Richard Martin
• Getting more from your Ancestry DNA Test – by: Charles Eldridge
• Whatever Happened to the Glover Sisters – by: Bob Bridges
• A Tale of Two Williams – by: Iain Fraser
• Why I Started my Research – by: Gillian Chen
• Unexpected Relatives – by: Charles Eldridge
• Breaking Through a Brickwall – by: Iain Fraser
• I’ve got my DNA, but what do I do next? – by: Debbie Kennett
• Parish Chest Records – by: Ian Waller
• How to Start Researching your Family History – by: Dave Foster
• Using a Research Methodology for Family History – by: Phil Isherwood

There are also write ups available for some of the talks that we were unable to record.