The Australian History & Genealogy Chat Sessions are a forum for Australian, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea historians and researchers along others who are actively researching Genealogy in the Australia/pacific region. They are intended to provide a venue for you to put forward details of your research problems/deadends and to receive research assistance from other Genies. To participate, direct your IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client program to the following : Server : irc.iigs.org Port : 6667 or 7000 Channel : #Australia Date : Every Saturday. Time : 8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, 9pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time, 6pm West Australian Time, 10am Greenwich Mean Time. A different theme (or topic) is selected each week, however, off topic questions are encouraged as well. Discussion leaders are Cathy Dunn (IRC nickname Coast) and Scott Brown (Dragonlord). If you need to download an IRC client program got to http://www.iigs.org/irc Cathy Dunn http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~cathyd/