I'm not cross posting - really I'm not (please don't take me off the List Linda). However I'll start the same as I MIGHT have done on the Central List. I am three quarters of the way through listing all the Western/Central Land Tenure transactions that appear in the Gazette for 1900. I was therefore very interested when I saw that Yewen's Directory of the Landholders of NSW, 1900 was available on CD for $39-50. archivecdbooks.com.au Click on "Catalogue"; then "NSW". There are 70,000 landholders given, listed as Dairy Farmers, Graziers, or types of Agriculturalists. A copy of the book is available on microfilm at the Mitchell Library. Would anyone like me to check for names in the 2 districts I copied: WENTWORTH DISTRICT Subdivisions: Cal Lal, Euston, Pooncarie, and Wentworth. MITCHELL DISTRICT Subdivisions: Broken Hill[not copied], Menindie [includes Pooncarie again and Tartna Point], Milparinka, Silverton [includes Limestone Siding and Pinnacles], Torrowangee [includes Euriowie], Thackaringa, Tibooburra, White Cliffs, Wilcannia. In any replies I will give the spelling as it appears, so Linda would get: BARRACLOUGH Luke, Deffie's Bend - Wentworth, Wentworth P.O. (Wheat) (Grazier) I was surprised at how many landholders also grew wheat, perhaps a third of them - very necessary when you think about it. I didn't do Bourke, but copied down for Jill: Bobodah Subdivision - Samuel McCaughney, Toorale Station (Sorry just one name). C.B.J.WARMOLL, Keiley. James WARMOLL, Armagh Park. and Grass Hut - H.P.MOXHAM. For Mary: Clement HARDINGHAME - Menindie P.O.(* in Grazier column - ? mean) Chas. MAIDEN, Pamamaroo - Menindie P.O. (Grazier) Geo. MAIDEN, Speculation - Menindie P.O. (Grazier) Geo. MAIDEN, Speculation - Menindie P.O. (Grazier) - ie same as above Wm. MAIDEN - Menindie P.O. (Other Crop) Regards ................Rusheen.

Rusheen You are great. Thank you so much for the information you posted for me. Can we put together a list which nominates all the directories of interest to people and post it on the website. I'll start us off with: Yewen's Directory of the Landholders of NSW, 1900, available on microfilm at the Mitchell Library Greville's Post Office Directory 1872 available at http://addison.homedns.org/projects/grevilles/atoz/namesatoz.htm Sands Directories (Years??) available on microfilm at many libraries Hall's Directory of NSW 1895 Moore's Australian Almanac and country directory 1888-1899, available on microfilm at the National Library, Canberra Bourke district directory and general statistical gazeteer 1893, available on microfilm at the National Library Canberra, although lost when I was there. Australasian Federal Pastoral Directory 1895 available on microfilm at the National Library Canberra Pastoral Possessions of NSW 1889 available on microfilm at the National Library Canberra Also I have recently heard about this: Australasian Genealogical Computer Index The pre-publication offer for the first volume of the CD version of this index has only a few weeks to run. For just $99.50 (including postage within Australia), individuals and non-profit societies can order this CD of records indexed over the last 20 years by family history societies throughout Australasia. Expected to be available around the end of September, the CD is in the final stages of testing and preparation. The result of thousands of hours of volunteer effort, the new index will be searchable by last name, first name, event, source, place, state/county, country and year ? with wild card searching thrown in. A far cry from the "alphabetic on last name" searching available on the present fiche version! The CD includes over 3.9 million records ? the present fiche version has just half that. The records indexed include cemetery transcripts, newspapers, books lacking an index, obituaries, electoral rolls, petitions, transportation records, and many more. If you identify a record of interest, the CD makes it easy to write to the indexing society, most of which are prepared for a small charge to provide more information from (or a copy of) the original record. The pre-publication price applies ONLY to orders received by SAG (the project manager) by 30 August 2004, and these can be placed online. From 31 August the price (for individuals etc) rises to $125 plus p&p. Separate pricing applies to other users. NB: Pre-publication order CDs will not be mailed out before the end of September! What is the consensus on whether it would be worth buying? Best wishes Jill