>From Roots Web Review; an excerpt For our readers from Australia this website may be useful in their search concerning immigration to Australia. Nick RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 30 August 2006, Vol. 9, No. 35 (c) 1998-2006 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * ROOTSWEB HELPDESK: Check here for announcements: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ * * * ========================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES, AND SOME SITES WORTH SEEING NEWS: WorldConnect Post-ems Requirements BOOK NOTES: Palm Beach County, Florida SITES: St. Louis Catholic Cemeteries; Alaska's Shipwrecks; Gulf of Mexico Historic Shipwrecks 1b. Tips from Readers: Following the Waterways 1c. Using RootsWeb: Sharing Your Recent Genealogical Finds 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: Correspondence Resumed; Roundabout Way to Ancestral Village in Bavaria 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: Bound for Australia 7. Humor/Humour: All Points Bulletin 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= Bound for Australia By Di Cummings in Melbourne, Australia In 2001 I began researching my mother's side of the family, and found that several families immigrated to South Australia. Discovering what ship they came on, and what the voyage was like, proved to be rather difficult -- especially as I don't have access to the research data held "over there." Given that our pockets are not majorly blessed with lots of cash, I was surprised and pleased when my hubby said I could go to South Australia for a week. Then followed much planning and calls for help and advise. Getting to SAust took a whole day by train, and accommodations cost a lot too, as did the photocopying when I finally reached my destination. I discovered that the newspapers of the day sent a "shipping" reporter down to each ship to record who was on the ship and if anything significant happened on the voyage. Slowly and surely I found my people. I rang home excited, to share the news, and was asked to "check a couple more names and a couple more and a couple more, oh and it could be spelt this way or that way or that way, and we don't know what year." My pile of passenger lists grew and grew. It occurred to me that maybe to create a list of "all the people who arrived in one year" might be an interesting thing to do. This grew and grew. I soon realised I should learn how to write webpages, to share my discoveries. I made arrange- ments with RootsWeb to host my family tree, plus some pages [about 2,500 webpages of them] -- all relating to passengers coming South Australia -- showing who came on which boat and when. This is when an old song began creeping into my head -- Bound for South Australia -- and so my shipping pages "got their name." In October 2005 I launched a CD entitled "Bound for South Australia -- passengers arriving from 1836 to 1851." The CD contains more than 3,000 passenger lists (1836-1851) covering about 60,000 families, plus about 30 ship diaries and more than 200 photos of the early pioneers. And then my family said "no more!" Being such a nice person, I knew I couldn't ignore pleas for help -- and so the project advances a year at a time. Should you need help finding when your families came to South Australia, visit my website. My e-mail address is at the bottom of each page. Remember to include who, when, and the ship name (if you know it). Please limit your requests to ONE PER PERSON, per month. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dicummings/Images/Ships/BoundForSouthAustralia.htm * * * REPRINTS. Permission to reprint articles from RootsWeb Review is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, provided: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 30 August 2006, Vol. 9, No. 35. * * * *