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Family convict details now online

An estimated four million Australians have convict ancestors.

Ancestry.com.au has launched online a comprehensive collection of convict transportation records – the Convict Transportation Registers: 1788-1868, which include most of the 163,021 convicts transported to Australia.

The collection, the originals for which are held at The National Archives of England and Wales, include the four transportation registers spanning the 80 years of convict transportation, and also key pre-census records: the New South Wales and Tasmania Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859, Convict Musters, 1806-18
and Settler and Convict Lists,1787-1834.

Information contained in this important convict collection includes name, date and place of conviction, term of sentence, name of ship, departure date and colony to which convicts were sent. Also included can be occupation, physical description and religion.

By bringing these records together and fully indexing them online, a unique and comprehensive demographic snapshot of Australian convicts can for the first time be established, providing an estimated 22% of living Australians who have convict ancestry with the definitive resource for researching convict ancestors.

For more information visit www.ancestry.com.au

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