Hi There, I also found that, if the first woman on the "sheet" wrote just "Williamstown" without a street address, that the next (maybe only one or two) put ditto marks e.g. " . Then the rest of the women just wrote their names with no street or town! THEY knew they were signing the Williamstown sheet, and I guess they expected all Williamstown sheets would stay together...... but they didn't. They were joined RANDOMLY, sometimes hundreds of sheets apart. However, by careful examination, you can see the pasted joins, so you can then check all the signatures on that sheet which have no address. This might not work for country disparate areas, though, where only one or two signed. But the sheet will give a clue on how the signatures were collected. I did find that some seemingly disconnected signatures show that the women signed at a district meeting.. for me that was in Melbourne, one appeared to be perhaps a WCTU gathering, with the wife of a local Presbyterian minister signing, another seemed to be lady victuallers, but with both of these they all gave their suburb or town with their signature. The congregation of that Presbyterian church were obviously enthused, and gathered many neighbours. Hope that gives a few clues on searching, even for country areas. I see a few distance strays have been found for you already. Happy hunting! Regards Ada Ackerly Beryl O'Gorman wrote: > Hi All > Another thing to look out for is that many saw that the person above them > had written the town, so they just wrote the street. I didn't find many > among the Portland lot that I'm doing, but I know that Ada found quite a few > in her Williamstown research, so tedious as it may be, I ploughed through > the whole list with a Portland street directory beside me and then accepted > or eliminated the possibilities. > Cheers > Beryl > >