Hi - you may already know about this newspaper project. The National Library of Australia (nla.gov.au) has been digitising old newspapers from around Australia and they are now online and searchable. They are digitising newspapers which were printed between 1803 to 1954. I found over 100 references for just one of my family names and have been enjoying myself reading the articles and adverts. I have found ship arrivals, property sales by searching for property names as well as the standard surname searches. This is a great resource. It can be found at: http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home There are a range of search options you can try. I've searched by surname, location, property name, ship name etc. You can also search by newspaper, by year and by decade. Remember, it's a beta version and the digitisation can sometimes be poor but a great bonus is that you see the actual newspaper article as well as the digitised text. It is a work in progress and worth revisiting regularly if you have interests in Australia as additional information is being added regularly. The 100+ family references I found this week were approximately 90 references a couple of weeks ago when I first logged on. It will be interesting to see how many articles/items they grow into. So keep visiting! Keep in mind that names such as McGrath may also be searched as M'Grath Also, for those who are registered users of the library the National Library now offers all registered users across Australia 24/7 access to selected online databases. Registration is available to anyone living in Australia, so it's not just State based as other State Libraries are. They have 60 or so databases which can be accessed off site by registered users, including Gale, ProQuest, the Economist Historical Archive, 18th Century Journals, MacquarieNet, Origins Network, The Times Digital Archive etc. Access can be requested online at: http://www.nla.gov.au/getalibrarycard Hope these are useful. Anne