NOTE the location for our monthly meetings is - Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, Oxford Road, Aylesbury (map) (any alteration to the location, or date will be indicated on the timetable below).

May 8th 2010 3pm HUGUENOT ANCESTORS: Michael Gandy talks about ancestors with exotic names which might be just French, or might be Huguenot. Even some names which sound poure English are really Huguenot (Peters, Dyer, Lightowler etc)
2pm we will have a selection of research material from East Anglia, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex plus Cambridge and Huntingdon for good measure. This will include a chance to read family history magazines from those counties, as well as registers, censuses and picture histories

June 12th 2010 3pm WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Those strange words and expressions you come across in censuses, registers and wills, explained. Bring along your own Puzzle for Eve McLaughlin to sort out. Enquire within upon everything connected with family history (except diseases and computers). 3pm
Also (2pm) access to a collection of bopoks about
occupations, including indexes from numerous City
Livery Companies.
Greg Davies will talk at 2.30pm about Family Tree
Maker and the merits of other Genealogy programs.

July 10th 2010 3pm VICTORIAN DEATH & FUNERAL CUSTOMS: Tom Doig takes us on a hilarious tour through the strange rites our ancestors considered necessary to mark a passing.
2pm material from Bristol, Glous, Wilts

August - NO MEETING (summer break)

October 9th 2010 3pm MEDICAL MYSTERIES: Visitations of God, declines and risings of the lights. Dr Dennis Stoker explains the strange causes of death in parish registers and on Victorian certificates. How did they catch these diseases. Bring certificates with any odd causes of death.
2pm medical directories, herbals, hospitals, nursing etc. Burial indexes from Hants, Berks, National, some cemeteries e.g. St Pancras [note this meeting was originally scheduled for June]