I have found the easiest way to save articles is to highlight the corrected text on the left (I correct, save corrections, go back, and then return to the page), Copy, or Ctrl-C and Paste into a Word document, adding the name of the newspaper and the date as a heading to each article. I call the files (Surname) Newspaper Finds. It sounds as though your family came from a higher socio-economic group than mine - none of mine managed to get a wedding write-up, and very few published details of births, etc. But I did have one rellie who made it into the news a number of times - court appearances for burgulary. It's a fascinating site and I spend too much time reading. I love the depression-era and war-time recipes. Re Colleen's advice to download another and then search for it - do the search by date (today's if you do it today). Do you know how to change a filename? Cheers Barbara

Don't forget to save the citing information at the top of the text section. Jennifer -----Original Message----- From: aus-vic-geelong-district-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-vic-geelong-district-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Barbara OConnor Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:26 AM To: aus-vic-geelong-district@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GEELONG] NLA Australian Newspapers I have found the easiest way to save articles is to highlight the corrected text on the left (I correct, save corrections, go back, and then return to the page), Copy, or Ctrl-C and Paste into a Word document, adding the name of the newspaper and the date as a heading to each article. I call the files (Surname) Newspaper Finds. It sounds as though your family came from a higher socio-economic group than mine - none of mine managed to get a wedding write-up, and very few published details of births, etc. But I did have one rellie who made it into the news a number of times - court appearances for burgulary. It's a fascinating site and I spend too much time reading. I love the depression-era and war-time recipes. Re Colleen's advice to download another and then search for it - do the search by date (today's if you do it today). Do you know how to change a filename? Cheers Barbara

Hello Susie, VPRS 12024/P002 Unit 5 Case 3310. in 1923 Dispute over sale of Hellier's Grand Hotel Queenscliff. Mrs Hellier first claimed a share, then withdrew, then applied for back wages of £3 a week for 45 weeks as a manageress of the hotel - if not paid, she wants the company wound up for unpaid debts. VPRS 12024/P002 Unit 6 case 3347. in 1923 Ocean Grove Estate was intended as a religious and teetotal summer resort and settlement. Purchased in ?1888? and set up as the Ocean Grove Coffee Palace Coy Ltd all property sales had an encumbrance banning the sale or manufacturing of malted, spirituous liquors or vinous liquors. The Ocean Grove Guest House was purchased by William Henry EMBLING in 1896, and was sold on (or leased? or was she still purchasing by instalments?) to Amy CLOSE in 1919. The widow of EMBLING and Amy CLOSE appeal to the Supreme Court under it's Equity jurisdiction, to lift the embargo so she could serve drinks with meals. William WILTON, orchardist, claims he had lived there for 23 years, and until 15 years ago, had a steady milk and fruit round. Claimed nine houses had been removed, and the stables used by Cobb & Co who had 70 horses stabled at Ocean Grove, were removed in 1918. The teetotal concept was no longer fashionable. Tourists were just not coming. The solicitor who had acted for the company claimed that the settlement, for sales, was "dead" for years: the teetotal concept put people off. A Tourist company said they used to have a weekly one-day trip to Ocean Grove, but had discontinued it, as travellers expected to have a wine or beer with their meal and had complained. One man said he bought there so his family could holiday and spend weekends in a teetotal atmosphere with god-fearing neighbours. A local shopkeeper claimed her business was booming in a teetotal atmosphere. This file is worth a look and notes on the witnesses make it interesting... a large file. Order the whole box or unit. There are several files, water damaged in unit 6, and unreadable, and archivists will likely withdraw the whole box if individual files are requested and they become aware. Putting the damp files in plastic sleeves seems folly... the ones I read actually dried out in the air-conditioning and became readable and the pages separated as they dried without any forcing. you just have to be patient with the few files so damaged. Two were so damaged I made no attempt to open them at all, just noting their title and case number with "unreadable" in the notes. This series I indexed from a big register partly eaten by rats about ten years ago, on loan from the Prothonotary of the Supreme Court. The actual case files, then, were on pallets in storage at the PRO. The 1922-1936 files have just been released. I'm working through them, noting errors in titles and spelling and allocating box/unit numbers as they are examined. 2286 case files in total, I've checked 308 files in the first 6 boxes... a long way to go! Takes about 3-4 hours per box, depending on condition and number of files per box. I'm at stalemate with my "Non-issued Probates" because the probate office have taken back several boxes which I need to complete the index to 1980, (after all, they ARE their records!) I was really on a roll.. down to the last twelve boxes... Oh, well, good thing they released the equity files, eh. EQUITY: Applications for late registrations of birth, actions for custody of children after marriage breakdowns, sad stories from widows who seek "maintenance out of corpus" or to use the lump sum inheritance to feed and educate their children, with sad tales of desperation, farming out of hungry children, seeking to get income through the Neglected Children's Department, etc... there are some harrowing tales in "Equity Case Files". Regards Ada