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