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« on: Sunday 19 October 14 10:27 BST (UK) »Oxfordshire FHS is pleased to announce that it will have a helpdesk at the Wantage family history roadshow, which is to be held on Sunday 26 October 2014. This is part of a Europeana collection event, at which we will be offering family history help via our Search Services in the venue's cafe area. The Search Services is our suite of databases of baptisms, marriages, burials and monumental inscriptions, and includes data relating to both the parishes of historic Oxfordshire and the former North Berkshire.
The event will be held at "The Beacon", Portway, Wantage OX12 9BX, with the doors opening at 10.00am. Admission is free. The organiser's website gives more details of the event itself :-
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en
Meanwhile, the Oxford Mail's preview of the event can be found here :-
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11543142.Wantage_residents_will_have_their_war_relations__diaries_preserved_online/
Anyone wanting details of this society's services, products and activities, or simply requiring help with a thorny research problem, will be made very welcome.
Best wishes.
Paul Gaskell
Publicity Officer
Oxfordshire Family History Society
Website : www.ofhs.org.uk