Yesterday at one of our meetings at the Society of Genealogists in London, I presided for the last time as Chairman over the London Group of Yorkshire Family History Societies. After more than a decade in the chair I stepped down because of personal commitments, especially moving from Hertfordshire to join my wife permanently at our other home in Poole, Dorset, while we have major improvements and extensions carried out and spend what remains of our senior years together. Living so far away from Yorkshire in the future means I will not be quite as available or accessible to do talks and lectures, etc, in Yorkshire, though I do hope to be able to attend the big family history fair on York Racecourse again, maybe next year. I will, however, continue to operate as a genealogist with specialisation in Yorkshire research and will continue to post and take part in discussions on Yorksgen and other Rootsweb groups. I shall also continue, hopefully, to write regularly for Family Tree magazine and run my one-name study of Stockdale/Stockdill and my website on celebrity family trees at: roystockdillgenealogy.com At yesterday's meeting I extended my thanks to all members of the London Group of Yorkshire Family History Societies, and especially to Committee members past and present who have given me support over the years I have been Chairman. We are a vibrant little group of people in the London area and the south-east with Yorkshire ancestors and I hope anyone reading this who would like to join will come along to the SoG and attend one of our meetings. See: http://yorkslondongroup.tumblr.com/ My worthy successor as Chairman is my very long-standing friend and colleague, John Hanson, who is widely known throughout the genealogical world. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ Reach For The Stars blog: roystockdillgenealogy.com "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE