Keith Clarke’s “Convicts of the Port Phillip District” has become THE go to book on the topic of convicts in Victoria. Apart from giving a history of the convict system, the book is a compilation of 3700 convicts who were in the Port Phillip settlement before 1850.
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Do you want to know more about Australia’s convict past? Convict, prison and court records...
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Everyone loves a convict in the family, and if you have one or more that you are researching, or if you are simply interested in convicts in general, have a look at these 47 titles that can help you learn more about them.
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If you had ancestors who were on the wrong side of the law, be sure to check out the NSW Gaol Photographs. This incredible collection not only has mugshot photographs, but includes details of nearly 50,000 people
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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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If you were planning some research this long weekend, Ancestry have just announced that they are giving Australian and New Zealanders FREE access to their collection of Australian and UK criminal and convict records!
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Following on from the University of Tasmania’s (UTAS) Introduction to Family History and...
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Call them criminals, convicts, black sheep or even “Australian Royalty” – having...
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Findmypast.com.au, one of the mega-genealogy-data websites around, has just added over 640,000 convict records to it’s site, which makes it the most comprehensive collection of convict records online.
Read MoreThe latest BIG addition to Findmypast is 2.5 million British criminal records which are now online for the first time ever! This collection of historical “Crime, Prisons & Punishment records” is simply amazing, and will give you information that you will not find elsewhere. And now that they are online can you imagine just how many people worldwide are going to uncover any villains or drunkards lurking in their family trees.
Read MoreSentenced Beyond the Seas is a project that State Records NSW is doing, and digitising and indexing Australia’s early convict records, making colour images of early convict indents available online for the first time. This digitisation project marks the 225th anniversary in 2013 of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788.
Read MoreIf you’ve got Dorset ancestry, you’ll love this. Ancestry have just added almost half a million new Dorset records to the site. These include including convict records from the 1700s-1900s, as well as Jury Lists, Militia records, Vagrant passes and a whole heap more. Whether your family’s black sheep committed their crimes on land or sea, you’ll find detailed accounts of their offences, and their punishment
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