All The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 24 January 2011 at the usual venue at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15pm for coffee, help with both genealogy and computers, and the bookstall, exchange journals and the library. The subject of the talk is "Death and taxes: an introduction to the Death Duty records", which will be presented by Dave Annal. For over a hundred years, from 1796 to 1903, the Inland Revenue maintained a series of registers recording the payments of death duties. These registers are now held by The National Archives and represent one of family history ’s best kept secrets. During this talk, Dave will look at the surviving records in detail and will explain how they can be used to uncover some fascinating facts about the lives and times of our nineteenth century ancestors. Our speaker Dave Annal has been involved in family history research for over thirty years. For much of this time he has worked as a professional researcher but he also spent ten years working for The National Archives at the Family Records Centre and at Kew as a family history specialist. He has written a number of books including the best-selling "Easy Family History" and contributes regular articles to "Your Family History" magazine. He now runs his own family history research business named "Lifelines Research" - _http://www.lifelinesresearch.co.uk/_ (http://www.lifelinesresearch.co.uk/) . All members, potential members and their guests are welcome. For directions as to how to get to the Exeter Hall, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html) For a list of future OFHS meetings, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html) Any queries, please contact me. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)