Vale & Downland Museum will host a family history day on Tuesday 14 June 2011. This society will be represented at the event by Alan Simpson, Howard Fuller and Tony Hadland, who will give help and advice to researchers, as well as having the society's "Search Services" - a database of census, baptism, marriage, burial and monumental inscriptions' data - available for consultation on computer. As part of the event, Tony Hadland will speak on "The Duke and the Miner's Daughter". Family tradition said that Tony's great-grandfather, Thomas Young, was the illegitimate son of a Duke. Using techniques anybody can employ, Tony discovered the truth was even more interesting than the legend. A second presentation on the same day will see Tony Hadland speak on "What my DNA test told me". After years of hesitation, Tony took a comprehensive DNA test. His aim was to prove or disprove a family tradition that his greatgrandmother was of Spanish descent. The test confirmed a cover-up ... The event and lectures take place at The Vale and Downland Museum, Church Street, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8BL. Admission is free. The family history day is part of the wider Wantage Summer Festival, the programme for which can be dowloaded from :- _www.wantage.com/downloads/programme2011.pdf_ (http://www.wantage.com/downloads/programme2011.pdf) Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/)