Events The Guild organises, sponsors and presents at events to advance the education of the public in one-name studies specifically and genealogy generally. Guild members and non-members are welcome to attend. A monthly calendar is shown below, where the title of each event links to further information if available. Future events are shown on the right, where you can click on the meeting titles to view their details. Your assistance with the Guild Stand at events would be much appreciated. Please contact the Guild Events Manager to discuss. If you need any help with publicity for an event, please contact the Publicity Manager. Month January February March April May June July August September October November December Year 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 < PreviousNext > Events in October 2020 3 October 2020 **Cancelled** - Oxfordshire Family History Society Fair 10:00 am - 4:00 pm **Cancelled** - Oxfordshire Family History Society Fair Guild contact: Wendy Archer For an overview of this event, with some photographs and a list of stallholders who attended last year, please see https://news.ofhs.org.uk/fair/ . The event is free to all visitors. Marlborough School Woodstock UK http://maps.google.com/maps?z=16&daddr=++Woodstock+++UK 10 October 2020 Widening Horizons Seminar 9:30 am - 4:45 pm Widening Horizons Seminar Guild contact: Alan Moorhouse ** In place of the cancelled physical seminar there will now be a web seminar of presentations over a 6 week period from October ** This ‘tools and techniques’ seminar was due to be run jointly by the Guild of One-Name Studies and the Local Population Studies Society, with various speakers looking at ways of collecting, analysing and interpreting data collected in the process of one-name studies or local population analysis. We are currently making arrangements to film and record the sessions with each of the 3 Guild and 3 LPSS speakers. #GuildCollaboration [further information will be placed here in due course] Solihull Methodist Church Blossomfield Road Solihull B91 1LG United Kingdom Map to Solihull Methodist Church 13 October 2020 USA - MIdwest Social - 8 PM Eastern or 7 PM Central time Zone 1:00 am - 2:00 am USA - MIdwest Social - 8 PM Eastern or 7 PM Central time Zone Guild contact: Marie Byatt Online session This month our speaker will be John Lisle - Trustee and in charge of the Guild Blog program John will be speaking about using a Blog with your study, it's benefits and how it can fit in with websites , profiles and other things you use with a study MIdwest Social Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/202814909 You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (312) 757-3129 Access Code: 202-814-909 More phone numbers: Australia: +61 2 8355 1050 Canada: +1 (647) 497-9391 Ireland: +353 16 572 651 United Kingdom: +44 20 3713 5028 New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts: https://global.gotomeeting.com/install/202814909 Online Go-To_Meeting Platform 24 October 2020 UK - 2020 Autumn Regional Meeting in Gloucestershire, England will be an online full day meeting 10:00 am - 3:30 pm UK - 2020 Autumn Regional Meeting in Gloucestershire, England will be an online full day meeting Guild contact: Gerald Cooke As the National Star College will not be available and as things are still uncertain we have agreed to hold an online meeting. This was to have been Meeting no. 27 (now no. 26) and is normally attended by Guild members from Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. The April was cancelled as a reult of COVID-19 Our meetings have been held bi-annually since October 2007. Online via Zoom