Speaker	Date	Subject
Members Night	4th Mar 2020	Sharing Our Brickwalls
Ken Doughty	5th Feb 2020	My Ancestor Was a Brushmaker
Ian Waller	8th Jan 2020	My Average Ancestor
Jef Page	4th Dec 2019	Christmas Traditions Where our traditions come from and how our ancestors  celebrated Christmas
Steve Beaman	6th Nov 2019	Was Your Ancestor a Transport Police Officer Researching the lives of police officers and particularly those who served as railway, dock and canal police
Dianne Sutton	2nd Oct 2019	Down Among The Gypsies The history and culture of this often maligned community
Dave Annal	4th Sep 2019	The Enumerator Strikes Back A fascinating look at the stories of the men and women who created the UK's census returns
Ken Griffin	7th Aug 2019	Bucks Convicts 1770-1870 Convicts tried in the County between 1770 and 1870, the last 100 years of transportation
Colin Oaks	3rd Jul 2019	Coram and The Foundling Hospital The Coram Foundation was the personal creation of a former sea captain, philanthropist and ship builder
Kathy Chater	5th Jun 2019	Film and Sound Archives for Historians How to find records of ancestors walking, talking and maybe acting
Stephen Barker	1st May 2019	Bucks in the Civil War The part Buckinghamshire played in the Civil War
Julian Hunt	3rd Apr 2019	Woughton on The Green How  open-field agriculture worked in possibly the most surviving ridge and furrow in Buckinghamshire
Members	6th Mar 2019	Members' Meeting  What my Granny did - a look at our female ancestors
Jef Page	6th Feb 2019	Chaucer - A Poet's Tale A look at the life of the poet (and comptroller of customs) Geofffrey Chaucer and the medieval England of the time
Geoff Swindells	9th Jan 2019	Life During The Commonwealth and Restoration How the Commonwealth and Restoration affected the lives of middle class families during the mid 17th century, with reference to some named Buckinghamshire residents of the time
Alan Ruston	5th Dec 2018	Look Out, He's Behind You The pantomime phenomenon, occupations and professions
Tom Doig	7th Nov 2018	Old Photographs Great Grandma didn't write the names on the back of the photos, as she knew who they were. Clues to identifying them
Ian Waller	3rd Oct 2018	All Roads Lead to Smithfield - Drovers and Cattle Dealers Drovers were very hardy men (originally Welsh or Scottish)
Tom Jones	5th Sep 2018	The History of Olney
Gwyneth Wilkie	1st Aug 2018	Coping With Kew An introduction to the National Achives
Colin Oaks	4th Jul 2018	Prisons, Punishment and Pain
Meryl Catty	6th Jun 2018	Brandy for the Parson The activities of smugglers who were often referred to as ‘gentlemen’
Alan Ruston	2nd May 2018	Maps for Family Historians
David Frost	4th Apr 2018	On Being an Agony Aunt for Family Tree Magazine David has been researching his family since 1967 and compares how reader's questions mirror his own experience
Members	7th Mar 2018	War Time Memories Short talks by members about family wartime connections
Marion Swindells	7th Feb 2018	The Life and Times of the Gamekeeper This talk covered the life of the country gamekeeper from the eighteenth century to the 1980s
Tom Jones	3rd Jan 2018	Bawdy Georgians Tom introduced poet William Cowper and featured some of the scandals of his day
Jef Page	6th Dec 2017	Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens Jef Page's talk was about Dicken's life, the London that he knew and saw - he knew it well, and how his family, experiences and imagination, particularly when growing up, influenced him and came out in his books, ie. "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", and "Great Expectations"
Colin Oakes	1st Nov 2017	Calendars: The Many Ways of Counting Our Days Colin Oakes examined how our calendar developed from Republican Rome's through Julius Caesar's "Julian calendar", then the Augustinian changes, Anglo-Saxon modifications, and onto the Gregorian calendar. He examined the great changes in 1751 and 1752 and the missing days, with some ramifications for dates before 1752, ending with even more changes and leap years, seconds and Atomic clocks
Anthony Marr	4th Oct 2017	Civil Registration - A Registrar's View After taking early retirement Anthony became a registrar at Beaconsfield.  He said that he learnt more about civil registration on his first day than he had ever done in previous years of researching his own family history
Dave Annal	6th Sep 2017	Brick Walls & Lost Ancestors Everyone left a paper trail and it's almost always possible to find it. Dave Annal's talk will introduce a number of strategies to help you to get round the brick walls and dead ends in your research, including getting the most out of online databases, and advanced techniques such as "family reconstruction"
Richard Heaton	2nd Aug 2017	Your Ancestors in the Newspapers Richard Heaton's talk provided an overview of the principal historic newspapers and periodical websites, both free and pay per view/subscriptions. Also, what you are likely to find and why.
Simon Fowler	5th Jul 2017	Researching Publican & Brewery Ancestors How to start researching your brewery and publican forebears, looking at the major sources in which to find more about these men and women. Simon is an experienced genealogist and a member of the Pub History Society, and will also provide a brief history of brewing and pubs since medieval times
John Frearson	7th Jun 2017	The History of Morris Dancing John Frearson has danced the Morris for nearly 30 years, and was the Bagman (National Secretary) of the Morris Ring for 7 years
Ian Waller	3rd May 2017	All Drawn by Horses This talk looked at the horse drawn transport age from the mail coaching networks to transport on the estate or farm
Geoff Swindells	5th April 2017	Olney Poor Law Records 1744 to 1820 The Cowper and Newton Museum in Olney was given the Overseers of the Poor's levy and disbursement books covering the years 1744 to 1820 in 1900. These books paint a detailed picture of life in Olney at the time
Members	1st Mar 2017	Members' Meeting
Tom Doig	1st Feb 2017	Wills and Inventories The oldest Wills survive from Anglo-Saxon times but the difficulty was recognised from earlier times
Julian Hunt	4th Jan 2017	Steeple Claydon: Before & After Enclosure How enclosure affected people's lives in Steeple Claydon, featuring members of the Verney, Busby and Hubbard Families, contrasting with the nearby village of Addington
Colin Chapman	7th Dec 2016	Christmases Past A profusely illustrated talk examining the origins of the Christian festival, and looking at customs traditionally celebrated at Christmastime
John Hanson	2nd Nov 2016	One Name, One Place Many of us create one-name or one-place studies without really realizing it.
Sarah Doig	5th Oct 2016	A Job for Life: the history of apprenticeship and guilds Exploring the wealth of surviving records of apprenticeship and guild administration
Kathy Chater	7th Sep 2016	Tracing Huguenot History Some 50,000 Protestant refugees came to Britain from 17th and 18th century France
Meryl Catty	3rd Aug 2016	Mrs Goodwin's Little Book The discovery of an18th century book of personal jottings was the inspiration for this speaker's talk about her husband's ancestor
Paul Blake	6th Jul 2016	World War 1 Military Records What records survive for researching those who served King and country
Maggie Loughran	1st Jun 2016	Locating Origins of Irish Ancestors Undertaking research into generations of Irish ancestors
Geoff Swinfield	4th May 2016	DNA Tests for Family Historians What commercial products are available and how should results be interpreted?
Ian Waller	6th Apr 2016	Mending Bodies, Saving Souls The social history and effects medical science had on our ancestors
Members	2nd Mar 2016	Members' Meeting Members recounted their family research
Nigel Lutt	3rd Feb 2016	Available Records Available records to research  family history in the twentieth century highlighting some possibilities and some problems
Bill Griffith	6th Jan 2016	Milton Keynes Museum A talk as the museum is embarking on a major expansion project
Ian Currie	2nd Dec 2015	Frosts, Freezes and Fairs A 1000 years of famous winters when rivers froze and remarkable events took place on the ice
Members	4th Nov 2015	Member's Evening Your research, your brick walls. A chance for members to exchange details of their research, and how they overcame brick walls
Julian Hunt	7th Oct 2015	Buckinghamshire Workhouses Tracing the early history of parish workhouses
Stephen Barker	2nd Sep 2015	The Ox and Bucks Light Infantry on the Somme Highlighting four significant battles in which the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry battalions fought
Judy & Chris Rouse	5th Aug 2015	Murder and Mayhem on the Midland An illustrated talk on Midland Railway records at the National Archives - an accident, a suicide, and a murder
Ann Leaver	1st Jul 2015	2000 years of the History of Milton Keynes Being on a busy Roman and Medieval road, history did not pass us by
Ian Waller	3rd Jun 2015	Electoral Registers, Rate Books and Land Taxes Valuable resources to locating ancestors
Pat Hilbert	6th May 2015	My Ancestors Were Thames Watermen and Royal Watermen Pat's talk related to her father's family - the Greens - 69 of whom were Thames Watermen
Kevin Varty	1st Apr 2015	The Great War Through the Magic Lantern Images taken from popular newspapers and glass slides
Members	4th Mar 2015	Members' Evening Member's own research
Michael Gandy	4th Feb 2015	Quaker Ancestry Where to find Quaker records
Audrey Collins	7th Jan 2015	Discovery - The National Archives Catalogue The key to over 1000 years of history
Elizabeth Knight	3rd Dec 2014	The History of Lace Making in the north Bucks area
Members	5th Nov 2014	Members' Evening Member's own research
Alan Ruston	1st Oct 2014	Non-Conformity The history of the various denominations since their foundation in the 17th century
Richard Ratcliffe	3rd Sep 2014	What's in The Parish Chest The records to be found in the Parish Chest, from the 15th to the early 20th century
John Hanson	6th Aug 2014	The New FamilySearch Website The latest changes, and how to get the best from them
Prof. Rebecca Probert	2nd Jul 2014	Tracing Marriages Legal requirements and actual practice, 1700 -1900
Kathy Chater	4th Jun 2014	Turning Your Tree Into a Tale Ways to present your research in an interesting way
Julian Hunt	7th May 2014	A E Housman, A Shropshire Lad The family history of the poet A E Housman
Brian Horridge	2nd Apr 2014	Members' Evening Bucks FHS Digital Resources
Ian Waller	5th Mar 2014	Debts, Debtors and Bankrupts Tracing records of ancestors living beyond their means
Bruce Smith	5th Feb 2014	Local Drove Roads The lives of drovers taking livestock to market before railways
Michael Kushner	8th Jan 2014	A Journey to Station X The Bletchley Park Story
Edna Dickenson	4th Dec 2013	Wartime Christmas Demonstration of how women coped in the kitched during WW2
Members	2nd Nov 2013	Members' Evening A snippet from your family history?
Judy Davies	2nd Oct 2013	Pressed or Volunteer? Tracing the life of John White the Boatswain
Dave Foster	4th Sep 2013	Beginners' Family History
Sue Donelly	7th Aug 2013	Mapping Rich and Poor Charles Booth's enquiry into London life and labour
Ian Waller	3rd Jul 2013	20th Century Army Records
Louise Taylor	5th Jun 2013	Adoption and Fostering Entry removed at speaker's request
Dr Gillian Gear	1st May 2013	Saving Dickens' Children Certified Industrial Schools
Dave Annal	3rd Apr 2013	Death and Taxes Understanding the death duty registers
Members	6th Mar 2013	Members' Evening
Peter Maggs	6th Feb 2013	Smethurst's Luck The story of Dr Thomas Smethurst
Tom Doig	9th Jan 2013	Births and Baptisms
Phil Morris	5th Dec 2012	Fire Marks and Insurance Tokens and Christmas nibbles
Mermbers	7th Nov 2012	Members' Evening Members told their ancester's stories with an occupational theme
Meryl Catty and Audrey Gillett	3rd Oct 2012	Leave No Stone Unturned Looking for those elusive ancesters
Alan Ruston	5th Sep 2012	Was Your Ancester a Civil Servant? Looking at the records to search
Louise Taylor	1st Aug 2012	From Stepney to Colney Hatch This talk was based on a study of sixteen women from Stepney in East London, each of whom was admitted to Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum - Colney Hatch, in the perion 1877 to 1889
Peter Barratt	4th Jul 2012	A Suffragette in the Family Peter gave a stirring and passionate account of  his great-grandmother's fight to vote 100 years ago
Trevor Owens	6th Jun 2012	Trade Tokens What they can tell us about a local economy
Ian Waller	2nd May 2012	Research Before Parish Registers  What is available?
Judy Davies	4th Apr 2012	A Journey in Search of Convict Ancesters  Judy's quest to uncover the events in the life of her convict ancester who was from Bedfordshire
Members	7th Mar 2012	Members' Evening Members shared information, tips, and resources
Julian Hunt	1st Feb 2012	Coaching Inns of Bucks
Greg Davies	11th Jan 2012	A One Name Study of the Village of Nash
Frank Banwell	7th Dec 2011	Christmas Party and Old Films
Members	2nd Nov 2011	Members' Evening Members recounted their ancester's stories
Joy & Geoff Dawe	5th Oct 2011	Living the Poor Life The two-way correspondence between the Poor Law Commission & Newport Pagnell workhouse
Meryl Catty	7th Sep 2011	The Breadwinner Occupations - sources for trades and occupations with case histories
Richard Harvey	3rd Aug 2011	Bribery and Corruption The unreformed electoral system and its records
Tom Doig	6th Jul 2011	Village Friendly Societies  Before the welfare state
Kathy Chater	1st Jun 2011	Coroner's Inquests  The Coroner's job explained
Peter Bailey	4th May 2011	British India and Indian Records How to trace your Indian links  and the Families in British India Society
Jane Burrell	6th Apr 2011	Caring For Your Heirlooms How to preserve your precious  family archives
Maurice Clarke	2nd Mar 2011	The Heir Hunters Association The work of tracing missing heirs to unclaimed legacies
Julian Hunt	2nd Feb 2011	House History Tracing the story of a house throughout history
Members	5th Jan 2011	Member's Evening Members brought their own resources to share
Michael Gandy	1st Dec 2010	Christmas Party, and Seeing It Through Their Songs This talk looked at music hall songs of the 1890s and early 1900s to show us what our grandparents thought about their lives
Members	3rd Nov 2010	What's Your Story? Having learnt how to date and identify photographs earlier this year, members brought in their own photographs
Laura Cotton	6th Oct 2010	Old Handwriting Workshop For those of us who missed Laura's talk in June 2006, a welcome return. An introduction to old handwriting, and then we were each asked to test our skills at reading old documents
Geof Lee	1st Sep 2010	A Gypsy in the Family An outline of their origin and arrival in Britain; History of the laws and persecution; Description of most aspects of their life, including homes, food, medicine, work, music, marriage and death; How to research gypsy family history
Ian Currie	4th Aug 2010	Weather Lore: Fact or Fiction Can you rely on seaweed or pine cones?  Is ‘Red Sky at Night’ a shepherd’s delight?  Does April have the face of a monk and the claws of a cat?
Liz Carter	7th Jul 2010	The Victorian Funeral A Victorian widow in her ‘weeds’ recalled her husband’s funeral and described what it was like to be a widow in 1890
Tom Doig	2nd Jun 2010	Dating & Identifying Old photographs How to date and identify your old photographs
Audrey Gillett & Meryl Catty	5th May 2010	An Enumerator's Tale A dramatic reconstruction of the 1851 census
Anne Pegg	7th Apr 2010	Maps, Tithes & Terriers – Documents for Family Historians Maps, tithe documents and terriers are some of the lesser known documents but can throw interesting light on the daily lives of our ancestors. Who knows, you might find a personal signature or mark or even details of their turnip crop! Some background information on the history and varied illustrations
Richard Heaton	3rd Mar 2010	Your Ancesters in the Newspapers An insight into what resources are available on-line, pre-research information required, and the strategy for searching newspapers that are not on-line. A selection of the many newspapers dating from the 1750's to the 1870's that Richard has collected
Ian Waller	3rd Feb 2010	Upstairs, Downstairs - Domestic Service Many families will find domestic servants, both male and female within their ancestry. This talk looked at their lives and their appearance in records
	6th Jan 2010	Meeting cancelled due to bad weather
Brian Horridge	2nd Dec 2009	Christmas Party And a talk by Brian Horridge on the Society's Church Finder project
John T Smith	4th Nov 2009	Tracking Down Grandfather George With the surname Smith you would be worried if you were trying to trace a grandfather who had "abandoned" his family....
Wendy Anderson	7th Oct 2009	Tracing Scottish Ancestry in England and Scotland A useful guide on sources for Scottish ancestry
	16th Sep 2009	Evening visit to Sulgrave Manor
John Hanson	2nd Sep 2009	The 1911 Census How to get the most out of it
John Wooley	5th Aug 2009	The Great Train Robbery John was a local Bobby who helped capture the perpetrators of this terrible crime
Ian Waller	1st Jul 2009	20th Century Family History A strategy for modern research
Tom Doig	3rd June 2009	Witchcraft - and how to avoid being hag-ridden
Nigel Lutt	6th May 2009	Researching Army Ancestry Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment sources
Jennifer Cooper	1st Apr 2009	Group AGM - followed by "The Milton Keynes Heritage Association" A talk on the MKHA
John Smith	4th Mar 2009	Tracing My Father in World War 1 A well illustrated talk highlighting WW1 sources available. John is chaiman of the Cheddington History Society
	4th Feb 2009	Meeting Cancelled
Ian Waller	7th Jan 2009	Sold, Separated, Divorced A look at how marriage problems affected our ancestors
Thea Young	3rd Dec 2008	Christmas party and a talk on Sulgrave Manor
Bill Duperouzel	5th Nov 2008	Duperouzel Family History Janet and Bill Duperouzel's story
Geof Lee	1st Oct 2008	A History of Brewing Unfortunately, samples weren't available!
Stuart King	3rd Sep 2008	Echoes of Village Life A talk by Stuart King
Jennifer Cooper	6th Aug 2008	150 Years of New Bradwell A talk by Jennifer Cooper
Anne Pegg	2nd Jul 2008	My Twentyman Family - 1384 to the Present A one-name study of the Twentyman family
Greg Davies	4th Jun 2008	An Introduction to Excel Using Excel for family history
Runnells Davis	7th May 2008	Ropes & Roses Another fascinating talk about life on the canals
Members	2nd Apr 2008	Group AGM and Members' meeting Interesting ways to record and display your research.
Robin Brown	5th Mar 2008	Postcards of Old Bletchley A talk with slides of old Bletchley and places nearby
Derek and Pam Ayshford	6th Feb 2008	The Men Who Served in Nelson's Navy
Members	2nd Jan 2008	Your Most Interesting Ancestor Members talk about their own ancestors
Alan Simpson	7th Nov 2007	Computer Meeting How to create your own website
Pamela Birch	3rd Oct 2007	Conservation of Documents How to look after our valuable documents
Runnells Davis	5th Sep 2007	Idle Women A talk describing the lives of canal people
Members	1st Aug 2007	Memorabilia Evening Members talking about their research
Marion Maule	4th Jul 2007	The Bedfordshire Map Sampler  Another entertaining talk by Marion Maule
Tova Irving (William Cowley)	6th Jun 2007	The History of Parchment Making  A talk by Tova Irving, BSc, member of the Society of Leather Technologists and Chemists
Derek Ayshford and Keith Williams	2nd May 2007	Computer Group Evening A presentation on the BFHS School Log Book Project
Members	4th Apr 2007	Annual Meeting and Members' Queries Members discuss family history queries
Dr. Richard Smart	7th Mar 2007	NAOMI The National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions being run by DeMontfort University
Ted Legg	7th Feb 2007	Clockmakers of Bucks A fascinating talk on a local trade
Greg Davies	3rd Jan 2007	Using Your Computer Getting to grips with Word - It is not just for writing letters!
Members	15th Nov 2006	Computer Group Evening Visit to Bletchley College
Tom Doig	1st Nov 2006	Folk Cures & Remedies How our ancestors dealt with disease and illness
Marion Maule	4th Oct 2006	Weird & Wonderful Weddings Wedding customs and traditions from around the world
Members	20th Sep 2006	Computer Group Evening Member's software on display
Wendy Anderson	6th Sep 2006	Resources in London London resources available to family historians
Members	2nd Aug 2006	Memorabilia Evening Members talking about their research
Greg Davies	19th Jul 2006	Computer Group Evening Greg Davies gave another talk about using computers
Ruth Meardon	5th Jul 2006	Family History Sources in Milton Keynes Library Examples of the many sources available in your local library
Laura Robertson	7th Jun 2006	Old Handwriting Workshop Old wills, manorial rolls, etc.
Brian Horridge	17th May 2006	Computer Group Evening A talk on the new version of Family Historian
Sandra Barker	3rd May 2006	Straw Plait Talk & Workshop Straw plait making from an expert
Rex Watson	5th April 2006	Annual Meeting and Talk on DNA An explanation of the role of DNA in family history
Greg Davies	15th Mar 2006	Computer Group Evening Nash – a one place study and the use of IT
Robert Ayres	1st Mar 2006	Stony Stratford Past An interesting look at Stony Stratford's history by a local author
Arnold Francklow	1st Feb 2006	Railways to Royalty The story of an Anglo-German family
Members	18th Jan 2006	Computer Group Evening Member's software on display
Julian Hunt	4th Jan 2006	Wills and Their Usefulness in Family History Wills from a family history perspective
Stuart Boreham	2nd Nov 2005	Bucks People Presenting The Bucks People Database
Elizabeth Knight	5th Oct 2005	The Medical Men of Olney A history of medical practice with relevance to Olney
Wendy Anderson	7th Sep 2005	Riots, Strikes & Arson Attacks Agricultural uprisings
Members	6th Jul 2005	Memorabilia Evening Members talking about their research
Neil Rees	1st Jun 2005	Czechs and Chequers Story of the Czech Government Exile in Bucks
Sandra Barker	4th May 2005	The Wonderful World of Willow A demonstration of willow basket making
Julian Hunt	2nd Mar 2005	Civil War in Bucks A talk on the recent exhibition in Aylesbury Museum
Members	2nd Feb 2005	Memorabilia Evening Members talking about their research
Elizabeth Knight	5th Jan 2005	History of Lacemaking History of lacemaking in North Bucks