Jenny Great idea but what is the site address. The addy you have sent is from your c drive and not the web address. Carmel ----- Original Message ----- From: <jnnyb@aol.com> To: <AUS-MELBOURNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:07 PM Subject: [AUS-MELB] Unemployed men in Melbourne during the 1890s > Hello listers, > > I have just launched a web site that lists a few of the men (and their > families) who registered with the Melbourne Labour Bureau in June and July > 1892. Many of the men came from interstate, particularly New South Wales > and South Australia. Adelaide suffered from a depression long before > Melbourne did, due to an extended drought. Many men involved in the > building industry came to Melbourne to find employment but their numbers > swelled just when the building industry was on the verge of collapse. Some > of the men went back to their home states (or the home state of their > spouse), while others found other alternatives such as a life on the land > in one of the settlement schemes such as Village Settlements. I am > attempting to list and identify all 4000 of the men who registered as > unemployed in Melbourne. My web site also lists spouses and children, but > currently only around 100 of the men are listed. > If you have a male family member who went AWOL for a while, or a child who > was inexplicably born in Melbourne in the early 1890s when most of his > siblings were born in another state, please visit the site regularly as > I'll be uploading more names weekly. > This is a work in progess that will be the basis of my PhD research so > appreciate any feedback or assistance that researchers can give. > Please copy the link and paste it into your browser. > > C:\Legacy\web\melbourne during the 1890s depression\index.htm > > best wishes, > > Jenny Coates > > > ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== > Hey have you updated your AntiVirus program lately ? ? > Is your AVG continuously activated while online ? ? > Does your AVG continue to check each and every email as it is down loaded > ? ? > Does your AV continue to check every Website you inter into ? ? > Better to be safe than sorry . . . let HouseCall check out your system > FREE ! > http://housecall.antivirus.com/. > other sites you might want to check out . . . > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Aid/AID-VirusProtect.htm > -this one mentioned in Missing Links Vol. 5 No. 44 > http://antivirus.cai.com/ > - this one was mentioned on the Listowner List > http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.cfm > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >