This coming Saturday 31st October West Surrey FHS holds its annual Open Day and Family History Fair at Woking Leisure Centre, Kingfield Road, Woking GU22 9BA from 10am to 4.30pm. This is a large event with numerous family history societies in attendance from not only the neighbouring Counties, but from all over the Country, plus commercial sellers of books, postcards, software and all the usual materials. Three new WSFHS CDs are being launched on the day:- CD 10 "THE SURREY BURIAL INDEX 2nd edition 2009 compiled by Alan Benny", includes 575,500 burials and covers the period from the start of each Parish Register, mostly up to 1865 (some later) for all ancient parishes and many 'modern' parishes (created after 1837) in rural Surrey. In addition to parish burials the index includes Dorking Cemetery records up to 1999, Godalming (Nightingale) Cemetery records up to 1998 and Godalming (Eashing) Cemetery records to 2003. Also, there are separate full transcriptions and indexes to Dorking Cemetery to 1950, Eashing to 1953 and Nightingale to 1955. and entries from more than 30 non-conformist Registers within the county. CD 15 "SURREY BAPTISMS NOT IN THE IGI 3rd edition 2009". This Index compiled by Rosemary Cleaver, includes the 257,000 entries in the 2nd edition, compiled by Alan Benny, 2008, from transcription supplied by Cliff Webb and volunteers worldwide. The new edition contains over 310,000 baptisms, of which over 250,000 have not been included in the IGI. There are entries from 191 Registers (some in Metropolitan Surrey) of various dates - many up to 1876 including more than 30 non-conformist and workhouse registers. NEW CD CD 16 "EARLY 20th CENTURY LONDON: MAPS, STREET NAMES AND SCHOOLS, compiled and indexed by Chris Willis, edited by Sue Turner, 2009". This CD contains the six Board School Maps of London, produced in 1906/7 by the London Schools Authorities. They were based on the 6" Ordnance Survey stock of the time and over printed with boundaries of the areas used in controlling the schools and also with the actual schools. To provide an index into the maps, a Street Index (published by West Surrey Family History Society as Research Aids 44-46) designed for the 1:2500 Alan Godfrey Maps has been included and an index to all the schools in the overlay. You can go directly from the index to the locality on the appropriate map. The 'London County Council List of the Streets and Places' published in 1912 is also included on this CD. This includes all the streets as at that date, plus a list of abolished street names. There is no direct link from this to the maps, but a Reference Map is included to assist. Full details of the CDs and all the other publications will be on the WSFHS website in the next day or so at: http://www.wsfhs.org/publications.htm There is a separate hall providing a wide range of resources for research including computer help and look-ups by the Census Detectives and by a number of other volunteers who will have official access to sites including Ancestry, Findmypast and Origins on the day. One of the computer help tables will be dedicated to helping beginners. A third room is set aside for a programme of seven separate subject talks running throughout the day with free tickets being issued on a first come, first served basis. There is a large free car park, and a cafeteria on site offers good quality breakfasts and lunches at reasonable prices, as well as sandwiches and rolls and sweet stickies..........., or just a cup of tea or coffee. For information about stallholders, talks, publications, travel directions etc etc, see: http://www.wsfhs.org/Openday.htm Ann Surrey Admin