I work for ForestrySA, and we have a small but wonderful collection of rare books from the commencement of the original department back in the 1880s - the collection is at our Mt Gambier office. When I was at Mt Gambier the other day I was looking at a magnificent 6 volume >100 year old set of "The Flora of NSW Forests", found a reference to a John Reid, sawmiller of South Grafton (his opinion on the virtues of turpentine!) (The same section also quoted the opinions of Joe Laurie, of Laurieton, my gg grandfather, that made me a bit of a heroine around the Forestry office for all of a few minutes). My grandmother's sister Wilhelmina Hoffman (my dearly loved Aunty Bill) married a John Royal Reid in the 1920s on the south coast of NSW, he was a sawmiller (like the rest of my family) who became very successful in the area. My grandmother had recently married Manning Davis, originally from the North Coast, and his sister, Leith Davis, had married Alfred Charleston from Grafton so my grandmother's sister would have had North Coast connections, and now I'm wondering if Uncle Jack was part of the great North Coast-South Coast migration that I'm discovering in my family as I dig further. Does anyone know anything of John Reid, sawmiller in the late 1800s in Grafton, or of his family? Leith Davis in but not of Adelaide PS: I also have a book on loan from the ForestrySA library, a history of the NSW Forestry Commission. Its very heavily oriented toward the north coast, and has lots of names (foresters, some sawmillers and timber workers) and history of forest reserves etc. I will make an index for the Bellinger site, but in the meantime am happy to look up for anyone. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hanly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 14 April 2000 0:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Red Cedar - Our Heritage indexed on Bellingen Gen Web With thanks to Vicki Morrison, "Red Cedar - Our Heritage" has had its index transcribed and the index is on the Bellingen Gen Web www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/ site. You can reach the index from the Welcome page and the site has been re-spidered so that the yellow search box on the Welcome also searches this index. Hope this is of help to people in their searches. If Bellingen Gen Web or Norco have been of assistance to you and you would like to make a contribution, please can transcribe an index. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/transcribe.html for answers to all your questions. Check out the books at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/books.html to find one in which you are interested that is not yet indexed. Also, if anyone has cemetery transcripts of Bellingen district, (or can persuade Bellingen Council to put Bellingen cemetery on line) I would be grateful to receive a copy. Cheers Paul Hanly Rhodes, Sydney, Australia Bellingen Gen Web www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/ Check out the books page http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswbelli/books.html which covers most North Coast Books, many of which have been indexed and the indexes are searchable from the Welcome page [email protected] North Coast NSW mail list ==== AUS-NSW-NORCO Mailing List ==== Search the archived emails of the Norco and other lists. Go to the second group of search boxes at http://resources.rootsweb.com/world/Australia/NewSouthWales/