If it is acceptable , could you please forward/redirect this (as an announcement) to your list, as the area covered abuts your list. The details of the new list are: - ------------------------------------------------------------- The AUS-VIC-NE is a discussion area for anyone who has an interest in family and local history relating to the North East area of the state of Victoria in Australia. For the purpose of this list, the North East is defined as that area of Victoria, north and east of Melbourne (but not including Melbourne and its surrounds), south of the New South Wales border and north of the Great Dividing Range. The major towns included are Alexandra, Beechworth, Benalla, Bright, Chiltern, Cobram, Corryong, Eskdale, Euroa, Mansfield, Mt Beauty, Myrtleford, Nathalia, Rutherglen, Shepparton, Tallangatta, Violet Town, Wangaratta, Wodonga/Albury and Yarrawonga. If anybody has connections in that area, please subscribe by sending "the normal Rootsweb" (which means an email to either of the below addresses) which contains the word 'subscribe' in the body of the message to either AUS-VIC-NE-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode subscribers or AUS-VIC-NE-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode subscribers A support website at <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVNE/> has further details of this mailing list." If you have questions please contact Peter Lakeman at surreal@netspace.net.au