The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.1 | June 2021

HGS News

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The four- masted ship

'Port Jackson'. See Searchers on page 8 for more details. Research Centre Report As you will have read in our Chairman’s letter, HGS is on the move to Hampshire Record Office (HRO) in Winchester. All our Research Centre material, books, maps indexes etc, plus all our office administration must now be packed and moved to our new premises. During the course of the move for next few months we are unable to accept any further donated material, so please hold on to this until later this year. Thank you. We are currently identifying what we need to keep, what can be scanned, what should be stored and what we may be able to dispose of. These will be items not directly relevant to Hampshire research such as books on counties that do not directly adjoin Hampshire. These books, and other items such as some CDs, will be offered freely and firstly to HGS members, although the cost of any postage will need to be paid. The ‘out of county’ books etc we are offering are for: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, East Anglia, Devon, Essex, London,

Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire. We also have books on Australia, Channel Islands, Germany, Scotland and South Africa. All the books can be found on our Research Centre Catalogue on the website. Please contact the Research Centre on researchmanager@hgs- online.org.uk if you are interested in any of the offers. When we move to Winchester, we will be welcoming some of our usual, as well as new, volunteers to our new premises. Some of our volunteers will also be continuing by working remotely from home. However, we also sadly know that some of our volunteers will not be able to join us at Winchester or work from home. We would like to thank everyone for all their commitment and very hard work at Cosham office (and previously at Drayton office) and we hope to see many of you at Winchester either as a regular or new volunteer Chris Pavey HGS Research Centre Manager

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