All The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 28 November 2011 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 "My Ancestor was in the GRO indexes - well they should have been!". This will be presented by John Hanson. I'm told by John that the focus of his presentation will be the locating of ancestors who appear to be missing from the GRO indexes. The missing birth, marriage or death might have taken place in an unexpected location. Your ancestor might have been in an institution, prison or the workhouse. They might have been serving in the Armed Forces. Or they might be at home but incorrectly named or indexed. John will demonstrate a wide variety of techniques to locate ancestors who can't immediately be traced. Our speaker John Hanson lives in Milton Keynes, and is a well-known face in the world of family history. He is part of the Society of Genealogists' "Census Detectives", and is also active in the Guild of One-Name Studies. He has also lectured at many family history conferences, and presents classes on behalf of the SoG. You can see his photograph here :- http://www.censusdetectives.org.uk/ 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 For a list of future OFHS meetings, please see :- 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