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Want to volunteer for a ship project?

Anyone interested in signing up for a ship project should email Janet McCalman on janetsm@unimelb.edu.au.

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Farewell to Claudine Chionh

Dear All,We say farewell to Claudine today who is moving into the private sector to expand her web developer career.She has been with Founders and Survivors since 2007, and her outstanding achievements...

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Founders and Survivors Newsletter No.11, August 2012

This second issue of Chainletter for 2012 farewells Claudine Chionh and welcomes Trudy Cowley and Colette McAlpine. For ships project volunteers, the focus turns to quality control and the next...

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New book on convict women transported from Kildare to VDL

A new book on Irish women transported to Tasmania during the Great Famine has been published by Four Courts Press. Part of the acclaimed Maynooth Studies in Local History Series, The transportation of...

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Victorian Workshop

We will hold another Melbourne University Workshop on Saturday 13 October, at the School of Population Health, 4th floor, 207 Bouverie St, Melbourne. This workshop will go all day from 11am until 4pm,...

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2012 Making Public Histories Seminar Series

Thursday 20 September 2012 @ 5:30pmThe Founders & Survivors Project: Australian life courses 1803-1920: Digital History Makingread more

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Convict kin find history ain't no ball and chain

Article in the Age newspaper on 23 September 2012 about the project.Publication:  The Age Publication date: 23 September, 2012URL: Convict kin find history ain't no ball and chain

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Emigration Scheme VDL to Geelong & Portland Bay, VIC 1845-6

An index of migrants from Van Diemen's Land brought to Victoria by the Geelong, Portland Bay (& Port Fairy) Emigration Scheme between 1845 and 1846 is available at...

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Ships Project News

FAS volunteers working on the Ships Project trace the lives of every convict on a ship, finding marriages, births and deaths of the convicts and their children. They also trace any AIF descendants -...

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Founders and Survivors Storylines

Founders and Survivors Storylines was launched in Hobart on 3 December 2012 by the Premier of Tasmania, Lara Giddings. It is an online resource designed for school students based on data collected by...

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Founders and Survivors Newsletter No.12, December 2012

This third edition of Chainletter for 2012 features articles about Founders & Survivors Storylines; the common hangman, William Bamford; chain migration; the men of the Indefatigable; and a convict...

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Pub Search

The Search Convicts (Pub Search) facility on the FAS website is not working properly. As an alternative, you can use the DEV Convict Search in the Staff links menu.Our apologies for the inconvenience....

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Founders and Survivors Newsletter, No.13, May 2013

This is the first edition of Chainletter for 2013. It's theme is 'imposture and the fantasists who committed it'. Read fascinating stories of rogues, murderers and swindlers. Also find out what the...

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Founders and Survivors Newsletter, No.14, September 2013

This is the second edition of Chainletter for 2013. It provides a progress report on the Ships Project and the future of Founders & Survivors. Also, volunteer Colin Tuckerman writes about the Earl...

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Upcoming Seminar: "The mad, the bad and the sad"

“The mad, the bad and the sad”: Life courses of convict women transported to Tasmania Rebecca Kippen Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, and visiting academic, Monash UniversitySchool of...

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Founders and Survivors Newsletter, No.15, December 2013

This is the final edition of Chainletter for 2013. It provides a progress report on our research, a call for new volunteers to work on the Convicts to Diggers project, a history of the Founders &...

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Founders and Survivors Newsletter, No.16, May 2014

This is the first Chainletter for 2014. Rebecca Kippen gives an update on Convicts & Diggers; Hamish Maxwell-Stewart reports on his new projects in the United Kingdom; Lucy Frost recounts the...

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Founders and Survivors Newsletter, No.17, September 2014

This is the second Chainletter for 2014. Hamish Maxwell-Stewart reports on the new grants from the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme. Rebecca Kippen gives an update on the progress of the...

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Founders and Survivors Newsletter No.18 December 2014

The final Chainletter for 2014 provides an update on the Convicts and Diggers project by Rebecca Kippen; a report by Janet McCalman on a new ARC funded project on the First AIF; an article by Jenny...

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[Founders and Survivors] Founders and Survivors Project: The next phase

Dear Founders & Survivors followers and members, We are now moving on to our new project, "Diggers to Veterans: Risk, resilience and recovery in the first AIF' and are seeking two teams of...

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