Hi everyone.  Whilst this isn't Yorkshire related it might encourage us all to keep digging.My friend Carol, found herself with this niggling desire to take a peripheral line in her research.  Her husband's grandfather, Thomas EVANS has been a thorn in her side for years.  He came to Australia, got some land grants, etc married, had several children and died. She can't find where he was born or when as places and dates changed on various records and many records she needs have not survived.  Australia doesn't have heaps of census records so it was extremely difficult for her to find much about him...Anyway he died, wife remarried, that husband died she remarried again....Carol has been following that line. For some reason she entered his name into Google, got a lead to the National Library of Australia and followed the links etc etc.  They have an eresource so Carol rang them for more information...and was flabbergasted by the reply...yes we have 103 photographs donated by a family member.Some have names on them -  others don't apparently.  She has to go down to Sydney to take photo of the photos as they want $22 EACH for a copy to be sent even by email...well worth the trip down I'd say.I might add here that the family were not Sydney folks....far north coast of NSW...so how they got there we don't know yet.Somewhere along the line she has also found 4 daughters no one knew existed...more research to be done on that. So if you hear a little voice saying do this or that for heaven's sake listen to it....you just never know what you might find in the oddest of places.  Good old Google again. I can't help wondering why people do only follow direct lines.  I think, potentially, they could be missing out on a lot. Hope it gives you all some encouragement for the New Year. Have fun!! ttfnTrishEx Hull lass on central coast of NSW