Thanks to Kerry Raymond on the Qld mailing list who prepared this Just to summarise the situation for the Sydney Morning Herald Up to and including 1954, use http://trove.nla.gov.au/ (free) >From 1955 - start of 1995, you can use http://archives.smh.com.au/ (not free) >From 1990 - today, you can use the News Store http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/help/qa.ac?sy=nstore#top The SMH Archives is apparently free to NSW residents via their State Library. It is not clear if there is any free access to those of us in Qld -- our State Library website isn't working very well today (no doubt still recovering from the floods). But there is always the option of a paid subscription: 24hr Access $15.00 48hr Access $20.00 1 Week Subscription $25.00 1 Month Subscription $40.00 1 Year Subscription $395.00 If you make a list of all the lookups you wanted to do in that period (1955 - 1995), you could take one of the short subscriptions and race through and do them all at a pretty reasonable price. It should be noted that the SMH archives is like the Trove service, scanned images with OCR-ed text used for searching. The catch is that you cannot see the OCR-ed text nor correct it. So if the OCR gets a name wrong, then you will never find it using the SMH Archives search tool. However, if you know the date of the event, you can just look through specific issues until you find what you want. Happy hunting ! Bye MargM List Admin