Colleagues The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will be held on Monday 28 February 2005 at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15 pm for coffee, help with both genealogy and computers, bookstall, library and exchange journals. The subject of the talk at 8.00pm is "Access to Archives - A2A" by Sarah Stark. The speaker is a member of staff at The National Archives, and will be demonstrating the A2A database, which contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England. The A2A database is updated regularly, and currently contains 7.3 million catalogue entries from 381 record offices and other repositories. How many of *your* ancestors will be detailed within these records ? I'm fortunate in that I've seen this splendid lecture previously. It will be well worth attending, and to get the most from it, I would suggest that the website holding the database is looked at before the meeting. It is at :- http://www.a2a.org.uk/ Although it is tempting to search for your ancestors immediately, this is a large and complex database. You'll have more chance of finding them if you click on the link entitled "New A2A Users" and read the helppages contained therein first ! All members, potential members and their guests are welcome. For directions to get to the Exeter Hall, please see :- http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html For a list of future meetings of OFHS, please see :- http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html Any queries, please contact me off-list. Paul Gaskell Minutes Secretary and Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Web : www.ofhs.org.uk E-mail : publicity@ofhs.org.uk