If you want a real wallow in family history, come to the Bucks Genealogical Society's FAMILY HISTORY FEAST next wekkend, on Sunday Sept 13 at the Mandeville School, Ellen Rd, Aylesbury (easy to find - make for Stoke Mandeville Hospital, signposted all round townturn into Churchill Avenue, left into Ellen Rd and immediately left into the school drive - or follow the signs.) This is something different from the run of the mill open day, which can only offer a few local databases and a number of commercial stalls selling you information. We have a whole room of Bucks material, databases, transcripts, books, postcards etc, of course, and another with 50 odd Bucks and other family trees displayed and a hundred printed family histories. But that is only the beginning. In the Main Hall, you will be able to consult freely a thousand books from Eve McLaughlin's own library, and twice as many CDs and microfiches, with something for every county in the British Isles (and a bit of overseas stuff). There are pictorial histories of very many places, in which you could be lucky enough to find a photo of your own ancestors, especially if they had a shop There are censuses, local directories for most areas, a selection of parish registers, lists of inhabitants at different periods, the whole IGI, collective lists for army, navy, criminals, doctors, lawyers, coats of arms, paupers, will makers, railway engineers, UK mayors in 1910- 35, tax payers (and defaulters) - you really have to see the riches to appreciate them. Their are duplicate copies of many of the pictorial history books for sale, with maps for every county (including Scots and Irish and Welsh ones) and county research parish maps. . We have a special London feature, with a wealth of East End data, the Webb guides to London, Middlesex and Surrey research, experts from Hillingdon, Herts and Oxfordshire. Special stationery and research aids are available, and old postcards. Beginners can benefit from the McLaughlin guides for general research and the Gibson guides to the location of records. Even if you are well advanced in your searches, you can still profit from the guides to old handwriting, Latin and the more esoteric sources like manorial and quarter sessions records. There are back copies of useful magazines too and a load of bargain CDs.. Exter personal advice will be available all day, from Eve Mclaughlin and others, and or highly trained stewards will be there to assist you in locating and using the CDs. There are talks on DNA (from Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake), keeping your records, and using a Mormon Family History centre. Doors open at 10am - to 4.30pm. Light refreshments all day. Somewhere to sit down and chat, easy parking on site. BGS members free, visitors £1 - and you get real value for that. Come and enjoy yourself - directions of website www.bucksgs.org.uk or e-mail eve@varneys.org.uk