Sorry - I meant to change the subject line for this message! Jeanette. I wonder whether everybody knows that papers Past is now searchable by word! No more downloading huge files and scanning them visually. You can type in the name or term and then trawl through the results. I found an ad for my gt.grandfather James DUNLOP's horse being sold in Wellington in 1850, a few months after he arrived in NZ from Scotland. I knew that my grandmother (Jeanette Mary DUNLOP of Gisborne) and her sisters were said to have attended a school in Auckland run by a Mrs Brassey, and I found ads for the school, and records from the 1860s of the "Misses Dunlop" making the voyage by steamer from Gisborne to Auckland and return. A good way to fill in some detail on the lives of your families. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast Jeanette. ____________________________________________________ Learn real skills for the real world - Apply online at http://www.ucol.ac.nz or call 0800 GO UCOL (0800 46 8265) or txt free 3388 for more information and make a good move to UCOL - Universal College of Learning. Enrol with a public institute and be certain of your future ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Learn real skills for the real world - Apply online at http://www.ucol.ac.nz or call 0800 GO UCOL (0800 46 8265) or txt free 3388 for more information and make a good move to UCOL � Universal College of Learning. Enrol with a public institute and be certain of your future ____________________________________________________