The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.1 | June 2023

HGS News

AGM Update Since this year’s AGM was announced in the yellow AGM pages of the March edition of this Journal there have been changes within the society which mean that the details given on Page 4 are now incorrect. An updated version of this announcement can be found in the members are of the website together with other documentation relating to the AGM 2023. Our HGS constitution states that – the Society shall be managed by an Executive Committee consisting of not more than thirteen members of the Society. The principal officers shall be a Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. In April our Chairman, Paul Pinhorn resigned due to ill health, and last year our Secretary, Gwen Newland, also resigned due to ill health. Recently our Vice-Chairman, Chris Pavey, has announced that she will not be standing for re-election at the AGM. Therefore, we will be electing a new Chairman, Secretary and Vice- Chairman. There are 9 members of the current executive committee standing for re election and 2 members who have been co-opted to the committee during the year have been nominated for election. We are currently requesting nominations to fill the remaining 2 trustee positions. Please see the members area of the website for details of these nominations under the AGM 2023 tab. If you will be attending the AGM on 17th June 2023, please remember that all the

the area groups have had to close because no one volunteered to help keep them going, and others, particularly Romsey, could follow in the near future. Surely in a society of around 1,800 members, a large proportion of whom live in Hampshire, we can muster enough volunteers to keep it going? Please give very serious consideration to whether you could offer some help, whether it be a couple of hours a week at HRO, helping to run one of the area groups or, especially, as one of the post-holders named above. You don’t need to be an ultra-experienced family historian, as interest and enthusiasm will be far more important. The Society is financially very sound and our move to Hampshire Record Office is an ongoing success. Recruitment of additional members to our volunteer team will enable us to continue to our 50th anniversary and beyond. To paraphrase John F Kennedy, ask not what your Society can do for you, but what you can do for your Society. If you feel you can offer some time, in these roles or any other capacity, or would like to discuss them further, please contact John Bowman by phone on 07880 591051 or by email: bowman92@btinternet.com We very much look forward to hearing from some of you. The Executive Committee Hampshire Genealogical Society

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