>Make a note in your diaries of the one you cannot afford to miss. > On April 23, we lay before you a FEAST of information, 1000 odd books >pictorial, historical and reference, from my own library, plus CDs, >microfiches, etc for everywhere in the British Isles and a few other >areas too. The whole of the Hartwell Day Centre is taken over by tables >and tables of information; we have a separate room for Bucks >information, parish register transcripts, censues, masses of books, many >of them rare, worked pedigrees, and displays by local history groups, >from Stone, Haddenham, Naphill and Walters Ash, Waddesdon and Wolverton >(the railway town). There is a large room with other counties, again, >masses of books and pictures, with a separate room for Scotland, Ireland >and the north; plus information on computer and microform covering the >whole UK (and a little for Australia, America etc). There are lots of >new CDs, including all those issued with magazines in the last year or >so, and our highly trained operators will help you get the item you >want. > There are also stalls where you can buy masses of books, old and new, >guides, staitonery, software, postcards etc and even arrange for your >own family history to be printed inexpensively. Oxford FHS huge range of >microfiche and CDs will be on sale - and for those who have been waiting >eagerly, our own BUCKS 1861 census CD will be unveiled. > There are talks by Eve McLaughlin introducing the resources avaialbel, >Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake on what is, and what is not, available on the net, >and Julian Hunt on what County Archives can offer you. > All day, expert advice will be on tap, helping you sort out your own >knotty problems. There will be light refershments and somewhere to sit >(in the sun, specially ordered) to have a chat with others - and you may >discover new cousins on the day. > The venue is the Hartwell Day Centre, Thame Rd South, on the west side >of Aylesbury. Coming from the town, take the Oxford road (A418), past >the rail bridge and the traffic lights, and turn left into a cul de sac >at the first big roundabout, where the main road turns right and goes >off to Oxford. From the est, at the second roundabout on the edge of >town, go straight ahead instead of turning left, and you are there. >Parking on site, in the LDS carpark next door and in the broad cul de >sac. > Members of BGS free, visitors £1. easy access for disabled to all >rooms. Further details from me at 01844 291631 or e-mail >eve@varneys.demon.co.uk. Map sent for SAE to Varneys, Rudds Lane, >Haddenham, Bucks HP17 8JP. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society