Linda, pardon my ignorance. I am on several mailing lists but didn't realise that there was anything that people could look up on the lists. How do you access them? Cheers Sheila L in Sydney Australia researching TAIT;STURGEON;CARTER;TAYLOR;WRIGHT;JACOBS SPURGEON;HEATH; in England LONGDEN;CROFT;WARREN;LEES;OWERS(POSS OWENS);BOLTON(BOULTON);STEVENS(STEPHENS); NORTHEY;THIRLSTONE in England and Australia OWERS;SMITH in Wales and Australia and getting back to your original point, YES I think it's a good idea and I will be interested in doing lookups in the 1881 census which I have just received, but give me a little while as I'm still learning how to do them myself. ---------- > From: Linda Barraclough <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NSW-W] LOOKUPS PAGE - ANYONE INTERESTED > Date: Saturday, March 25, 2000 12:32 > > Hi List, > > I was just wondering if anyone was interested in having a "Lookups > Available" page on AUS-NSW-WEST? > > In particular, these are great where someone has a record in the same room > as the computer, and can quickly do lookups for people. They are not > intended for exhaustive research, or to replace proper research enquiries to > family history groups and historical societies, who use research money > earned to buy new records. > > For example, as soon as I can compile an index to my history of Tibooburra, > I would list that I have that index/book available for lookups. > > I am quite happy to put the page up on the Westies Web Site, but will need > others to volunteer, by e-mailing me on [email protected] the details > of records they have that they are willing check. > > What do people think???? > > Linda the Listie