All The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 26 October 2009 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 "Great Western Railway Shareholders' Index", which will be presented by Frank Hardy. Our speaker tells me that his talk will look at how the Society of Genealogists (SoG) came to have possession of these volumes, and precisely what they are. He will then describe what the SoG has done with them - the indexing of 270 volumes of 150 folios each. Finally, Frank will describe how the index - which is huge - will be made available to the world at large. Our speaker Frank Hardy has been researching his own family history for over thirty years, and has been a member of the SoG for some twenty-eight years. Frank has been a member of various SoG committees since 1990, and is one of the team of members who do advice work within the SoG's Library. Professionally, he is a retired railway civil engineer, with a career spanning almost fifty years. 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/)