At 08:00 PM 22-09-01 -0600, you wrote: >Hi All >There seems to be no end to the helpful info that Daryl Povey and Co put >up on the Ballarat & District Genealogy Soc website. Just came across this >one while searching for something else: >Genealogical and History Societies in Northern and Western Victoria: >http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/society.htm >Any other great stuff we should know about Daryl? Hi Beryl & others I have set up the Ballarat Genealogy webpages at: http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/ so that those who are fairly new to the internet and interested in genealogy could have a springboard for searching the web rather than using a hit-or-miss approach which seems to be fairly common. I use this page as my STARTUP page in my browser so am continually fiddling with it and adding new links such as Ian Marr's excellent Cemeteries Pages at: http://www.ansonic.com.au/marrtronics/CemIndex.html The main menu has pages on SEARCH ENGINES (for which I have provided a rating system), anti-virus software, book sellers, BDM's, shipping, genealogical & historical societies, convicts, maps, rootsweb, email lists, help wanted messages, and ...... much more..... Happy to add advice pages on topics which may be of use to others. I have to confess that I am a secondary teacher (physics but with an interest in history) and this provides me with world wide classroom and a lot of fun seeing others get excited when they locate something new. I am always happy to link to other websites which provide access to information for which others may be searching. If there is a perceived need for a page of advice on researching any topic on the web related to history or genealogy them I am happy to add it if the basic idea or outline of information is provided. PS update your anti-virus software weekly, I still receive on average 2 email viruses in attachments per day, so there are a lot oiut there on the web who do not know their computer is infected with an email worm or worse. Have fun, Daryl Povey (Ballarat, ex Casterton area)