All The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 25 January 2010 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 "An Introduction to Oxfordshire's Museums", which will be presented by Tony Hadland. Our guest speaker Tony Hadland has been a member of OFHS for nearly thirty years. He is currently vice chairman of the society, and is editor of our journal, the "Oxfordshire Family Historian". He is an author, editor, occasional broadcaster and retired chartered building surveyor, who also had a training in architecture. He has written on Catholic recusancy in the Thames Valley and on many aspects of cycling history. He is currently working on a major history of the Raleigh bicycle company for a publisher in California. After retiring as operational risk manager of the property services department of a major bank, Tony went back to work as manager of the Vale & Downland Museum from 2004 to 2009. During that time, he took an active part in the Oxfordshire Museums Council, the Thames Valley Museums Group, and the Oxfordshire County Council Museums Liaison Group. This gave him a particularly good insight into the museums of Oxfordshire. Tony is chairman of the Alex Moulton Museum committee (Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire), an occasional advisor to the Museum of Computing (Swindon), and a volunteer at the Pendon Museum (Long Wittenham, Oxon) and the Vale & Downland Museum (Wantage, Oxon.) He is also a member of the Project Steering Group for the redevelopment and refurbishment of Abingdon County Hall Museum. For more about Tony Hadland, visit his website as _www.hadland.net_ (http://www.hadland.net/) 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 off-list. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/)