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Digital Panopticon - Tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925

This site offers searches of millions of records from fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey. Search individual convict life archives, explore and visualise … more

Convict Records of Australia

This site, hosted by the State Library of Queensland, allows you to search the British Convict transportation register, compiled from British Home Office (HO11) records for convicts transported to … more

Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers 1818-1852

The Francis J Crowley Bequest project is a five year project at the National Archives of Ireland to catalogue and make available the papers of the Office of Chief Secretary of Ireland from 1818 to … more

State Library of Western Australia - Guides to Family History - Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP)

The AJCP is an important collection of microfilmed records from archives all over Britain. It includes records for convicts, the military, early settlers and much more. This AJCP guide is in two … more

Ireland-Australia Transportation Database 1791-1868

This is an online index to a series of records held by the National Archives of Ireland. In 1988 the Archives presented Australia with a set of these records, on 105 reels of microfilm, as Ireland's … more

Convict System

The State Library of Western Australia has digitised the eight volumes that make up the Convict System. This collection of miscellaneous official documents relates to the transportation of convicts … more

Ancestry.com - Australia Convict Collection

This collection offers access to 24+ convict databases. The records are fully indexed with a free name search. A variety of subscription options offer access to digitised copies of the original … more

Ancestry.com - Ship's Medical Journals

There are two collections available and both contain indexed images of the original journals. A variety of subscription options are available to access these images. • UK Royal Navy Medical … more

Convicts to Australia - A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors

This extensive guide, by the Perth DPS (Dead Persons' Society,) contains information on many aspects of the convict system and includes a glossary, bibliography and extensive online convict databases … more

The National Archives (UK) - Digital Microfilm - Convict Records

This service allows you to search and download some of the most popular records on microfilm. These files are large (some up to 800 pages) so a broadband connection is essential. These documents are … more

Convict Ships - Medical Journals 1816-1867

This index by Grahame Thom is designed to help you access medical journals that were kept by surgeons on convict ships, 1816-1856 (mostly to Australia) and on emigrant ships 1825-1853 bound for … more

Surgeons at Sea - Royal Navy Medical Officers' Journals

This National Archives (UK) project has indexed all the names mentioned in, ADM series 101, the journals and diaries compiled by Royal Navy surgeons and assistant surgeons who served on HM ships, … more

Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP)

National Library of Australia, Australian Joint Copying Project guide to locating and accessing resources within the AJCP microfilm collection. more