It is genie heaven. Look what the PRO in Vic now have online:!There will be no housework done for the next month at least! http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/access/online.htm VPRS 7446/P1 Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums, 1849-1885 VPRS 7427/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ararat Asylum, 1867-1906 VPRS 7426/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ballarat Asylum, 1893-1907 VPRS 7428/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ballarat/Sunbury Asylums, 1877-1907 VPRS 8236/P1 Register of Patients, Ballarat/Sunbury Asylums, 1877-1920 VPRS 7395/P1 Case Books of Male Patients, Beechworth Asylum, 1867-1912 VPRS 7396/P1 Case Books of Female Patients, Beechworth Asylum, 1878-1912 VPRS 7493/P1 Register of Patients, Bendigo Receiving Ward, 1874-1908 VPRS 7721/P1 Register of Patients, Collingwood Asylum, 1866-1873 VPRS 7425/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1906 VPRS 7690/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1914 VPRS 7680/P1 Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1919 VPRS 7423/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Royal Park Hospital for the Insane, 1907-1913 VPRS 7490/P1 Asylum Records [Case Books], Sunnyside Licensed House, 1905-1915 VPRS 7422/P1 Index to Male and Female Case Books, Yarra Bend Asylum, 1848-1912 VPRS 10867/P0 Alphabetical Index to Central Register of Male Prisoners, 1868-1947 VPRS 10879/P0 Alphabetical Index to Central Register of Female Prisoners, 1857-1948 VPRS 110/P0 Register of Convicts, c1838-1852 VPRS 108/P0 Register, Police Magistrate, Portland, 1840-1853 VPRS 110/P0 Register of Convicts, c1838-1852 VPRS 108/P0 Register, Police Magistrate, Portland, 1840-1853 VPRS 65/P0 Copy of Inward and Outward Correspondence, Board of Education, 1849-1851 VPRS 5675/P0 Index to Special Case Files, Education Department, 1862-1977 VPRS 5676/P0 Register of Special Case Files, Education Department, 1852-1977 cheers Jenny Fawcett