Hi there everyone just letting you all know about the Rootsweb mailing list AUS-ORPHANAGES T/opic:/ A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in orphans and orphanages in Australia, as well as those children who were placed in homes and institutions from family breakdown or other reasons, during the period from 1788 to mid 1960s.you can join it at this address http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUS/AUS-ORPHANAGES.html Perhaps it would be a useful list for some Regards John Henry Green