----- Original Message ----- From: "LilianFraser" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-IMM-SHIPS] Fowler Family Which Ship Hi Lillian When you subscribe to any Roots mailing list you do get an acceptance email giving you what to do next info General rules of thum : Use meaningful subject headers, which you did. Type normally , using some punctuation , which you did Type surnames only in all caps aka FOWLER , which you wouldnt have known about When you reply there is no need to return someones complete email , just edit it leaving enough text in place so as you can follow the 'conversation' When posting on foreign or any mailing lists give clue to your location ...... which you did So you are doing OK ....so far ! . I am > finding it impossible to find/access any sites that will > give me passenger lists for Australia in the late 1800 > and early mid nineteen hundreds. When endevouring to research Australian records a bit of historical knowledge helps ........ Really was no such place as Australia until 1 Jan 1901 when a loose collection of Colonies joined into a Federation of States Immigration record keeping was a State fuction til about 1926 when the Federal Goverment took over Recording of BDM records was and still is a State function Censuses have been taken regularly here BUT once the stats were retrieved the actual papar work was destroyed Where & approx when did this FOWLER family go to here , & what where their names I bye MargM Beautiful Central Coast of NSW