Enrol Now for the UTAS “Convict Ancestors” Online Course
Applications for the UTAS course “Convict Ancestors” are now open. Learn more about the nation’s convict past with this fully online course.
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Tag: Tasmanian convicts
UTAS Offers Online Convict Ancestors Course
Do you want to know more about Australia’s convict past? Convict, prison and court records...
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Discover Your Convicts Ancestors With UTAS
Convict, prison and court records can provide rich evidence, of the lives led by past ancestors. The University of Tasmania are running “Convict Ancestors” which is a FREE online course, and starts on 24 April 2017. Learn about the records, and how to find them …
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Highlight: Van Diemen’s Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania
On 2 September 1845, the convict ship ‘Tasmania’ left Kingstown Habour for Van Diemen’s Land with 138 convicts, and their 35 children. This book focusses on two particular women on this voyage (Eliza Davis and Margaret Butler), their life before, the trials and transportation, as well as life in VDL …
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Tasmanian Name Index (including Convict and BDM Records)
LINC Tasmania have created an index to not only the Tasmanian BDM records, but also other records from their collection such as: convict records, passenger arrivals and departures, divorces, inquests, naturalisations, wills and more!
Read MoreTasmanian Convict Sites Collect Memories in Australian Heritage Week 2011
Do you have photos, diaries, letters, stories or oral histories relating to our major convict heritage sites in Tasmania that you would like to share? If you do, you are invited to attend events at the Tasmanian World Heritage-listed Convict Sites to celebrate Australian Heritage Week.
Read MoreAustralia Day Heritage: Meet Isaac Richardson, Labourer, Swing Rioter and Convict
As a way to help celebrate our Australian heritage on Australia Day, fellow Aussie genealogy blogger TwigsOfYore, has suggested a theme of finding a document relating to your earliest Australian ancestor and writing about it. So let me introduce you to my great-great-great-great grandpa Isaac Richardson.
Read MoreHuge Tasmanian Convict Project is now Underway
A major new research project delves deep into the past. The secret lives of our Tasmanian convict ancestors are going to be revealed in a major new research project. A collaboration between demographers, historians, epidemiologists and genealogists. By examining birth, death and marriage records and other historical sources …
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