I came across the following website which someone might find useful. It produced 39 people with our surname, and gives forename, age, month and year of immigration, ship, and port; plus number of fiche and page for those who can visit that record office. Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British, Foreign and New Zealand ports 1852-1923. The Public Record Office, Victoria _http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23_ (http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23) There's no space between ? and searchid. If you have variant spellings in your surname, use asterisk in the search box, eg B*ng* would cover Bing, Binge, Byng, Beinge etc. Madie

If you are uncertain of the year of travel or ship name just put in the surname and it will give you every passanger by that name in the record collection. Some people are listed as Mr, Mrs, Master or Miss and infant or just an initial therefore surname search is best as you can then pick out all the family by reading the ship name. Then armed with the ref details you can view the fiche at all the LDS family history rooms and gene societies and many local library have gene records available here (Aus) too. U.K. would have similar. These fiche do not need to be ordered in because they are part of the records owned by each centre. I always photocopy the first page of the book I am interested in as it names the ship& Master, dept. port & date and arrival port. Other info pertaining to your person can include trade or profession and whether English, Scottish or Irish. When you read to the end of the book you will get a report on what the voyage was like ie weather conditions and if anybody was born or died at sea. http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide023/PROVguide023.jsp This is a list of on line records held by the Public Records Office Victoria http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/indexes_online_3357.asp#Immigration This is the address for State Records New South Wales and has similar online databases inc. details of convict records. http://www.coraweb.com.au/shipsite.htm Cora has lots of links for all sorts of goodies. Hope this helps. Have fun Ann in Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bingmbing@aol.com> To: <Isle-of-Thanet-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:38 AM Subject: [IoT] Unassisted immigration to Victoria, Australia >I came across the following website which someone might find useful. It > produced 39 people with our surname, and gives forename, age, month and > year of > immigration, ship, and port; plus number of fiche and page for those who > can > visit that record office. > > Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British, Foreign and New Zealand ports > 1852-1923. > The Public Record Office, Victoria > _http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23_ > (http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23) > There's no space between ? and searchid. > > If you have variant spellings in your surname, use asterisk in the search > box, eg B*ng* would cover Bing, Binge, Byng, Beinge etc. > Madie > > >