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EFHS Constitution
AGM 2025
Many thanks to the select few who attended the 2025 AGM and to Pam Pearce who organised the event. Many thanks also to Jessica Feinstein for her informative talk on ‘Tracing your medieval ancestors’.
This was our final AGM as the East Family History Society.
See the AGM minutes below.
Reports
AGM 2024
Many thanks to all those who attended the 2024 AGM.
Here are the Research Managers Report, the Secretary’s Report and Treasurer’s Report.
Minutes of the 2024 AGM can be found in Spring 25 edition of Points East with an addendum and corrections in the Autumn 25 edition.
Points East
Points East Indexes
We are very grateful for the huge amount of work done by EFHS member June Lines in compiling this tracing aid and index, which is based on EASTs appearing in articles, lists and trees published in Points East since 1993. Information from the Society’s database has occasionally been added to entries (such as the parental names of World War 1 casualties).
These additions have not been cross-referenced within the entries. Chapman county codes indicate the location if given (eg. BKM = Buckinghamshire). The county is not repeated within an entry. Please allow for boundaries and spellings to have changed over time.
The Indexes were produced in batches and are now merged into three groups. Inevitably there is duplication of some names which have references in several volumes. If you have your own collection of copies of Points East you can look up the references yourself; otherwise make a note of the references you are interested in and email Angela Waterfall, our research manager. She will scan the entries and send copies by email.
References are given in the form:
S98:9
(Spring 1998, page 9)
A04:20 25
(Autumn 2004, pages 20 to 25)
More recent references are: 39:14
(Volume 39 : page 14)
Wills
Will of James East Butcher of Uxbridge
See also Points East Issue 50 for the text of a talk on Wills given by Ken Pearce in October 2017 and also Points East Issue 51 for the text of a talk on the History of Wills given by Pam Pearce at the same EFHS AGM.
East Ramblings
The EFHS rambles provide the opportunity for members, and their friends, to meet together and share what they are doing about their family history. They are also an opportunity for a short walk!
If you would like to join us then please contact Angela Waterfall, research manager. (01491 839006 or easts@waternet.plus.com)
Walk 1: Wallingford, Sept 2024
[Editor: we had a lovely day in Wallingford – a pleasant walk, saw some East dwellings, visited a church, sat next to Agatha Christie & enjoyed a nice lunch!]
Walk 3 – Oxford Colleges (28th Feb 26)
Walk 4 – Oxford, Jericho and St. Frideswide Church (17th Apr 26)
Members Interests
On the following Members Research Interests list you will find each member is identified only by a membership number. Please contact Angela Waterfall, our research manager, giving the membership number of any member with whom you share a research interest.
If you would like to add your interests in the same way, please send the relevant information to Angela with a request to include it in the Members Interests list.
East GRO Indices
The Excel spreadsheet here of East names in the GRO indices between 1837 and 2005 was generally sent out to new members. The accompanying notes were written by our then Research Manager, Anne East to explain how to navigate the spreadsheet. Also included is a Customer Guide written by HM Passport Office regarding the GRO
Notes for using the GRO Indices
BMD Certificates
The society holds copies of Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates that have been shared with us by members. If you require a copy of a certificate, please contact our research manager. See Points East Issue 59 for a list of members’ marriage certificates that do not relate to any individuals on the Big Tree. Please contact Angela Waterfall if you recognise any of the marriages as your family members.