Once again Qantas has delivered me safely home and what a pleasure it is to be here after multiple trips to Brisbane in the past few months. As enjoyable as it is to see my friends down there, including meeting once-virtual friends, it’s so nice to be home. Mr Cassmob has almost forgotten what I look like and the cat has turned very sooky. Apart from being the essence of kindness and generally a very good man, Mr Cassmob had the house looking lovely, a bunch of flowers on the table, and a lovely meal prepared…and no, I’m not willing to trade him <smile>. I really am spoiled and I send up thanks to my in-laws for instilling the love of tidiness, order, cooking and flowers! Ironic isn’t it, given he grew up with house staff in Papua New Guinea?! As a special kindness my body decided to stop holding the cold virus at bay and let me have a couple of quiet days in bed…how generous! The only other down side to being home is the onset of the Build Up here in the Top End with the dreaded highs of humidity…ugh!
QFHS Presentation: Hospital Records
On Saturday last I presented at the Queensland Family History Society on Hospital Records. I’d like to thank them for the opportunity to be one of their speakers. For those who attended, my slide-show can be found on this blog under Presentations. Back in the dim and distant past I also wrote about them on this blog, in my Beyond the Internet series 2012.
Genealogy Rockstar Shauna Hicks presented on Asylums and Prisons and you can also find her slide shows on her webpage…you can learn heaps from them. She’s got lots of other good stuff on that page too.
Fellow blogger, Alex aka Family Tree Frog, who I was delighted to meet on Saturday, has done a review here.
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Family history across the seas 
Interesting to read about the Hospital presentatiion. Wish I’d been around and been able to attend. Was discussing the exact topic on the weekend especially with regard to a ggrandmother who died in Bne hospital 1892 of breast cancer. Family didn’t know about it and wondering how it was diagnosed back then.
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It might be worth a read of my slideshow Carmel, but you’ve confirmed a point I made on the day…Murphy’s Law says that the exact time frame you want won’t be available…how annoying is that?! You might get something from the Deaths and Special Removals series though not too much I’d suspect. I’d imagine the breast cancer was diagnosed by the lump which would have been increasingly visible. I wonder if a medical history might explain?
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