Colleagues The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 24 May 2010. It will be held 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. The subject of the talk at 8.00pm is "Forgery in the Archives", which will be presented by David Thomas. He will be talking about the long and interesting history of forgeries in archives and record offices. David will consider forged religious texts, through the forgeries of the American Civil War period to the great Mormon forgeries. This story will culminate with The National Archives’ own forger - and how Churchill did (or didn’t) murder Himmler ! Our speaker David Thomas is a very senior employee at The National Archives, where he fulfils the roles of Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer. David has a personal interest in nineteenth century poverty and debt, and is also currently working on a history of hotels. His interest in forged documents arose whilst he led the investigation into forgeries found in The National Archives. A pen-pic of David can be found on the website of The National Archives :- _http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/how-we-are-run/directors.htm_ (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/how-we-are-run/directors.htm) In addition, Exeter Hall veterans will remember David from our October 2004 meeting, when he spoke to us on "Stagecoaches and Coaching Inns". 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/)