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New Tasmanian convicts database

"Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society."

You can now search the convict database as well as contribute your own research if you have a VDL convict in your family.

http://foundersandsurvivors.org/

[First paragraph taken directly from the Founders & Survivors website]

Latest newsletter from Founders & Survivors (Tasmanian convicts database)

The "Founders and Survivors" project aims to record the lives of Tasmanian convicts by bringing together a variety of historical resources. Their newsletter, Chainletter is filled with interesting stories as well as updates on how the project is proceeding.

You can read the latest edition at:

http://foundersandsurvivors.org/sites/default/files/newsletters/08_2011AUG_large.pdf

Convict's private lives discovered in Hobart - ABC audio file

What was life like for our Australian convict ancestors?

Researchers have recently discovered a number of personal items under the floor of a solitary confinement cell in Tasmania.

To find out more listen to the audio file from ABC's The World Today program.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3273291.htm

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ABC podcast - Stories of Port Arthur convicts recorded

This is a very interesting interview with Edwin Barnard, author of the new book Exiled: The Port Arthur Convict Photographs. He has compiled a history of 100 convicts held in the penal settlement at Port Arthur in Tasmania. The photographs were taken in the 1870s.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2010/3037887.htm

Along the track - Railway Records in the National Archives

The National Archives of Australia at Cannon Hill is holding a free seminar on railway related records held at the Archives.

The bulk of material relates to the formation and operation of the Commonwealth railways in Australia which included South Australia and Tasmania.

Discover the historical background of the development of railways in Australia and the role that the Commonwealth Government has played in all States.

To be held on Wednesday 17 November and again on Saturday 20 November , starting at 10am and running for about an hour.  A compilmentary morning tea will be provided.

National Archives of Australia16 Corporate DriveCANNON HILL  QLD  4170 

For bookings phone: 32494226