Dear Shirlee, If you look on the Ryerson Index there is no person of that name in that year. The Ryerson Index is constantly looking for new indexers, and new material to index. We have two indexers in New Zealand. There is a good reason that there are no volunteers for the Maitland Mercury 1894, and that is that the Ryerson Index has not indexed that paper before September 2002. I found that by using the top left icon etc as posted in the last message, cut and pasted here :- >> SMH for 1894 is completely indexed, so there was no notice posted in that >> paper. >> >> You will be able to find out which Maitland Mercury papers are indexed >> into >> the Ryerson Index by using the top left icon on the main page, then >> selecting the paper from the list being indexed. >> >> Sincerely, Bill Sincerely, Bill > > I have just tried to request another lookup and received this automated > response: Sorry, there are no volunteers available to carry out a lookup > of > the Maitland Mercury from 1894. > > Shirlee