Hi Everyone, This is a major announcement, for me anyway. :) The first of the online indexes to Gippsland Heritage Journal is now available. Previously we have published them on paper, as stand-alone indexes - firstly as 1-5, then 1-10, lastly 11-15. We have now decided to put them online, so the index to No.16 is available as a test at http://kapana.customer.netspace.net.au/GHJindex16.html This one is rather exciting for me, as it has all the names from the Gipps Land Stock Brands of 1858, which have not been previously available on the net. Often they are the proof as to who was actually operating a run - other references such as Billis and Kenyon and "Victorian Squatters" (Featherstone and Anderson?) give the financiers holding the mortgages, not the person actually operating the run. Sometimes the only stock they may have owned was a horse or a milking cow, but their brand was still registered at the police station - maybe we see it a little like VicRoads registering our number plates these days. That's the good news. The indexes will be added progressively, and will hopefully at some future time exist online as one document - not single issue ones where you have to search each issue. But we thought you might not want to wait for that. The bad news is, I am not going to have time to provide further details from the index entries, and I really don't want to clog the list up with requests for lookups. However, the good news is that Terry Goodwin, who is on this list, is going to trial being our "Lookups Person". So if you find a reference for which you want to know more, he can be contacted by e-mail at terry_goodwin51[at]bigpond.com. Thanks heaps, Terry! Please put "GHJ Lookup" in the subject line, and e-mail him direct. And please be patient - we are unsure how much traffic this will generate - and this lookups offer currently applies only to #16. Cheers Linda -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.7 - Release Date: 10/06/2005

Thanks Linda, for all your hard work. Found an interesting reference already. Cheers Beryl Beryl O'Gorman Greensborough Victoria Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Barraclough" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: Index to Gippsland Heritage Journal > Hi Everyone, > > This is a major announcement, for me anyway. :) > > The first of the online indexes to Gippsland Heritage Journal is now > available. Previously we have published them on paper, as stand-alone > indexes - firstly as 1-5, then 1-10, lastly 11-15. > > We have now decided to put them online, so the index to No.16 is available > as a test at