Beginning Family History - Convict Links
You may find the following links useful in your research.
CONVICTS: Australia
Convict Records of Australia 1787-1867
British Transportation register. Search by name of convict, surname, year of transportation, by Ship name. You can contribute to the records and you can add new convicts not on the lists. These are from the Joint Copying Project. State Library of Queensland and the British Home Office.
NSW Convict Database: 1791-1873
Indexes of convicts, convict indents, Convict Exiles.
Cyndi’s List for Australia Convicts and Prisoners:
3 pages of lists of the most important Convict resources.
Ancestry.com, Australian Convict Transportation Lists 1791-1868
Require subscription to fully access records. Ancestry has a wide range of Australian Convict records.
Established by Lesley Ubal in 1998 as a way to identify convicts, ships and other researchers researching the same convicts and ships. Contains fabulous links for further research into convicts.
Linc: Tasmania Online- Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office- Convict Page
This is the home page for one of the more remarkable resources on-line in the world of Convict records. The Tasmanian archive holds conduct reords, arrival records, assignment lists, description records etc… that are indexed and can be viewed on line digitally.
Ireland to Australia Transportation Records 1791-1853: National Archives of Ireland
Searchable indexes. Created in Ireland from records held at Dublin Castle.
Australian Cyndi’s List Links for Everything
Rootsweb- Australia: Mailing Lists: General
