Hello yet again Marg and any listers still reading this thread. Here is a link to a brief summary which I wrote years ago to another list, about the Immigration Deposit Journals in NSW, Oz; and the Indexes to those Journals. It was written in response to someone's query, but in reading it through you should be able to extract the relevant information to apply to your own research. (I did think that I had written something much more comprehensive about it, but cannot find it; anyhow this will hopefully point the way towards how to use these wonderful resources.) http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/fermanagh-gold/2008-02/1204278990 Ray in oz On 23/12/2013, at 7:21 PM, marg o'leary <[email protected]> wrote: hi all, am new to the list and hoping for some pointers to researching in Tyrone. The family I am tracking is that of James Simpson married to Mary Thompson. Possibly of Omagh. I don't know how many children they had all told - but the following went to Australia. John migrated age 27 in 1849 , so born about 1822, which would make his parents born abt 1795 perhaps. William followed in 1853 with wife Eliza Thompson, I think these men were blacksmiths. A sister Margaret (mrs Knight) arrived before 1856 and the last three children, Susan 20, Alexander 18 and James 16 arrived in 1856, and certainly when they arrived, both parents were deceased. They were sponsored by the tow older brothers. Alexander had the name of the place he was born as something that reads like Delgr Tyrone, and I wonder what that was. I would really like to know more of this family's background in Ireland and if there were more family members. Most grateful about advice of where to look. regards Marg OLeary Port Stephens NSW -------------