Researching your early Australian ancestors? A good place to start is our course Australian: Convict Records and our Australian Records Virtual Meetings.
Australian Records Certificate Director Kerry Farmer recommends the following for researching convict ancestors.
- The National Archives UK
- National Library of Wales – Crime and Punishment
- The National Archives of Scotland – How to search for High Court criminal trials (High Court of Justiciary’ records)
- The National Archives of Ireland – Ireland-Australia transportation records (1791-1853)
- Old Bailey Online – The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
- Ancestry.com.au
- Findmypast
- Trove
- State Library of Queensland – British Convict transportation registers 1787-1867
- Linc Tasmania – Tasmanian Names Index
- NSW State Records
- Victoria Government Gazette. Online Archive 1836-1997
- Parramatta Female Factory Precinct
- Female Convicts Research Centre (Tasmania)
- Fremantle Prison (Western Australia convicts database)
- State Library of Western Australia – The Police Gazettes of Western Australia
- Convicts to Australia
- Kerry’s Family History Research Pages – Convicts
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