From: roy.stockdill@btinternet.com > From: "Janice Wood" <janwood50@btinternet.com> > > The 17th annual Yorkshire Family History Fair is on next > Saturday, the 30th June at the Racecourse, York. We are really excited > about this, as it promises to be the very biggest and best ever. > Certainly it will be the biggest family history event in the North of > England, with exhibitors from all over the UK, including family history > > societies, antiquarian and modern booksellers, CDs, vintage > > postcards, photo restorers, researchers, family tree printers, > > archive storage specialists and much more. There is something > here for everyone, spread out over 3 floors of the Knavesmire Stand. > > There is free parking, wheelchair access, lifts to all floors > and refreshments served all day in the cafeteria. > > The No.11 bus from York Railway Station stops within a few > minutes walk > > Full details are on the website > > http://www.yorkshirefamilyhistoryfair.com > > If you are there, please stop at the Yorkshire Ancsestors stand > and > > say hello. I will be there with Brenda Green > > (www.yorkshireancestors.com). > > Also, watch out for Jackie Depelle, the lady with the famous > hat. I, too, will be at the York Fair, as I have been a regular for many years now. You will easily spot me - I will probably be wearing a bright yellow Society of Genealogists shirt with the SoG logo and my name on it! This year, however, I have been given a new role. I have been invited by the BBC to feature on their stand as a surnames expert/consultant, talking to visitors about the meaning of their name, and I will be demonstrating the British 19th Century Surname Atlas (a brilliant little program that produces instant surname distribution maps from all the data in the 1881 census) on my laptop. The BBC are there for the first time in conjunction with the TV series, The Great British Story: A People's History. I understand the BBC's stand will be on the 2nd mezzanine floor of the grandstand, so drop by and say hello! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE