Colleagues The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 26 July 2010. It will be held at the usual venue at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15pm for coffee, help with both genealogy and computers, and the bookstall. The subject of the talk at 8.00pm is "The ABC of Disease, Decline and Death", which will be presented by Joan Grundy. The latter has just retired after 45 years in the NHS as a nurse, midwife, family planning nurse and, for the past 21 years, as a practice nurse with a local GPs surgery. Joan has been researching her own family history since the early 1970's, and was previously MI's co-ordinator and secretary of Doncaster FHS. She is currently a member of Doncaster, Suffolk, Cleveland and the Metcalfe Society. Joan has written two books, and her talk is based on her second book, which is entitled "A Dictionary of Medical and Related Terms". This was written to help family historians understand some of the old medical terms found in parish registers, death certificates and in eighteenth and nineteenth century books. It gives descriptions of the symptoms and sufferings of our ancestors before the discovery of antibiotics, anaesthetics and pain killers. Joan has also asked me to mention that she will have supplies of her own books on sale at the meeting - which she will be selling at a discounted price ! All members, potential members and their guests are welcome. For directions as to how to get to the Exeter Hall, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html) For a list of future OFHS meetings, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html) Any queries, please contact me. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)