Not every Australian has convict background, but there are a large portion that do ... so how do you go about researching them and just where do you find the records?
Acclaimed author, Cora Num has fully revised and updated her book 'Convict Records of Australia' and it now includes over 120 extra sources. The book is designed to assist researchers understand the vast amount of material and records available for convict research. It highlights what records are available and what they contain.
Arranged alphabetically with over 75 categories and includes the standard convict classics, new records, indexes, re-releases, CD-ROMs, online research guides and Internet sites. It is fully indexed with diary, place, ship and subject indexes. It also includes Tip boxes with helpful hints and suggestions.
Contents:
Introduction
Abbreviations and Symbols
Absconders
Absolute Pardons
Access to Ancestors
Ancestry.com.au
Annotations
Archives Resources Kit (ARK)
Assignment
Australian Joint Copying Project
Australasian Genealogical Computer Index
Back in England
Background Information
Bank Accounts
Biographical Dictionares
Biographies, Family Histories and Convict Stories
Buildings
Certificates of Freedom
Check Lists and Worksheets
Children
Clothes
Colonial Offences
Colonial Secretary's Index
Conditional Pardons
Deane Index
Deaths
English County Convicts
Exiles
Families
Female Convicts
Female Factory
First Fleet
Gaol Records
Gazettes
Guards
Historical Records Series
Hulks
Immigrations Deposit Journals
Indents
Inquests
Irish Convicts
Irish Transportations Records
Iron Gang
Jewish Convicts
Language
Love Tokens
Machine Breakers
Marines
Marriages
Muster and Census Records
Mutch Indexes
New South Wales
Non British Convicts
Norfolk Island
Northern Territory
Online Indexes
Pardons
Passes and Convict Movements
Polotical Protesters
Prison Boys
Quarantine
Queensland
Recipes
Research Kits
Second Fleet
Scottish Convicts
Shipboard Diaries
Ships and Voyages|
South Australia
Stockades
Surgeon's Journals
Tasmania
Tattoos
Third Fleet
Tickets of Exemption
Tickets of Leave
Trial Records
Trial Records in Newspapers
Victoria
Western Australia
Women
Work
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