How has your week been, some of you I know are again in lockdown if you are in Western Australia, but where ever you are in the world I hope that all is well with you.
This weekend was supposed to be three days of moving the contents of my already packed office, plus lots of boxes that have been stored in my garage for several years after the death of my good friend Shyama Peebles, into my new bigger office at the rear of our house. However COVID stepped in yet again and returned my golfing husband to me three days early, so plans have been shelved. The move was originally to be over a year ago, and then our youngest daughter moved from Melbourne when the WA borders closed and she has lived with us till recently when she moved to Perth. She is a lawyer and needed to use my office to ‘work from home’ full time. So this is as far as I have got.
Old Office nearly empty
New Office nearly twice the size – with a great view.
A lot of my office data has been packed away during this time, except for my reference books, which are kept in our lounge. It has been very distracting going through things again and finding stuff I didn’t know was lost, and losing things I know are in there some where. I do however have a fairly good filing system and I can lay my hand of most things. However its the things in archive boxes that are the most interesting. I always find that you come across the best stories when looking for something else entirely either online or in boxes. (:
The black A3 files on the right are all of the admission records of the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital. These are photocopies of the original ledgers which were scanned by my late friend, Sandy Duncan, and I over a period of four years. It took us so long as they were VERY heavy books and we had to do them all on site at the hospital. This was the agreement we made with the Dept of Health. These records are slowly being put on the web site, as you may have seen, thanks to my wonderful volunteers. They are from 1894 to 1942.
The black files on the left are what I call ‘Settlers and Strays’. There are all of the records of everything that isn’t a hospital record or a cemetery record. It is made up of roughly 36,000 records on the people of the Central Goldfields. The biggest part of these would be local school admission records. I can search them in an computer database.
The coloured files are all the cemetery records that I have. There are a lot more but I will show you later when things are looking tidier.
Remember you can contact me any time (because I’m always home) on moyasharp@outbackfamilyhistory.com.au
So its goodbye from me, and I hope you enjoy this weeks stories! Moya♥
Moya Sharp
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