The lovely folk at Tasmanian Archives have made the images from the original ledgers of convict indents and conduct records available to view on line.
After you do your initial convict search, click on the database number on the left of the page and it will take you to another page with links to whatever records are available for your convict.
Records are completely downloadable so no more waiting months for your orders to be processed and even better, it's free !!! You can also print the page direct from site, but from experience you really need to print A3 or larger as the writing is often elaborate and cramped, making it very hard to decipher.
Tasmanian Convicts
Happy hunting !!!
After doing a search for Mary, l've worked out that unlike the later ledgers which are indexed first by ship and then in alphabetical order according to surname initial, the earlier ones appear to be indexed in a ledger of their surname initial, then entered according to year of sentencing/arrival. Hope this helps.
After you do your initial convict search, click on the database number on the left of the page and it will take you to another page with links to whatever records are available for your convict.
Records are completely downloadable so no more waiting months for your orders to be processed and even better, it's free !!! You can also print the page direct from site, but from experience you really need to print A3 or larger as the writing is often elaborate and cramped, making it very hard to decipher.
Tasmanian Convicts
Happy hunting !!!
After doing a search for Mary, l've worked out that unlike the later ledgers which are indexed first by ship and then in alphabetical order according to surname initial, the earlier ones appear to be indexed in a ledger of their surname initial, then entered according to year of sentencing/arrival. Hope this helps.
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