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    1. BGS FAMILY HISTORY FEAST Apr 23
    2. Eve McLaughlin
    3. 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

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