Hi Listers Unfortunately I have probably broken every copyright law in the State so will not post the complete story, instead I shall tell you where to find it and some other interesting bits and pieces. I am a member of both the Lake Macquarie & District Historical Society and the Lake Macquarie Family History Group. Both of these Associations have records on most of the information you require, I will ask JenM to fill you in on the details of the Family History Group as she is President of it. With the Historical Society I am Librarian and Treasurer. We are based at the Heritage Centre, Victory Parade, Toronto in the old Toronto Railway station on Greenway 1, we are open Sun and Wed afternoons 1-4pm, by arrangement touring groups etc can be catered for, our fees are simple (by donation), we are a registered not for profit Society and are self funded. We have an extensive collection (42 years worth) of photographs, newsclippings and books, which I have started indexing (became Librarian last Wednesday), we do not have the facilities (people, money or access) for internet exposure but I have tried to setup a form of online information with Ninemsn Groups and also an email address which is lmdhs@hotmail.com (notice it's free...lol) which I monitor. Recently I found a website that allows you to make your own online library of books http://www.librarything.com/ just type in the name or author and it fills in all the details for you, including ISBN and Dewey system, which I hope will make indexing the catalogue easier, once complete I will need to find out how to gain exposure of the finished (never finished) product. Hope this is not too off topic for the list MargM or out of bounds as I don't wish to tread on anyones toes, so I will apologise in advance if anyone is offended. MargaretB Lake Macquarie NSW Australia