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

HGS News

Research Report

Our HGS office at HRO continues to be busy and we deal with both UK and worldwide queries These are answered in the office and by our volunteers on the research desk, who also help enquirers face to face. Many are also answered remotely by our researcher, Roy Montgomery, working from home. Our CDs and booklet sales are either sent from the office by the office team, or via email with a pdf attachment. Email sales are handled by another of our volunteers, Trevor Bumstead, also working from home. HGS finances are also managed in the office by our Treasurer and assistants. HGS projects are progressing well; the new Reference Library is now on our website, please do make use of it to identify books that might be useful for your research. Transcribers for our BDO project continue to work from their homes and you will see some additional information from this on our website. Volunteers are also working on indexing our journals as well as bringing our collection of unwanted birth, marriage and death certificates up to date. This updated index will shortly be available on the website.

We have various other indexes ‘in the pipeline’ awaiting transcription etc. Most of you will have read our ‘all-member’ letter which was initially sent by email and is now in this journal. You will read that I am standing down as Vice-Chairman at our AGM and then leaving shortly afterwards as Research and Office Manager. Please read the letter and consider whether you can offer us some time as an office volunteer. We have many tasks to do, they are not individually onerous or difficult, but we do need some additional regular help to manage them. We work in close partnership with HRO staff, the work is interesting and we are a friendly, sociable and welcoming team. Help just a few regular hours a week would make a huge difference to our current volunteers and also allow us to provide not only additional cover in our office, but also continue our service to all our HGS members who cannot visit us here in Winchester. Please give this some serious thought and we look forward to hearing from you. Chris Pavey HGS Research and Office Manager

For all the latest news visit… www.hgs-familyhistory.com

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