Something that might interest genealogists and history buffs

[JAS]

Just saw this on the news and thought it might be of interest to those tracing famliy trees or those who have an interest in history...

NOTE...access is FREE for this week.

Regards
JAS

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8477482.stm
(link to full article)

New records of more than 55,000 convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries have gone online for the first time.

They contain details of people who were shipped to Australia and were subsequently pardoned or served out their sentences.

Family history website Ancestry.co.uk said the records could be accessed for free for seven days from 24 January.

[Pseudo]

This might be of use to some posters here, but possibly not the majority. South Australia has the distinction of being the only settlement not founded as a penal colony. Or something.

[Psyber]

This might be of use to some posters here, but possibly not the majority. South Australia has the distinction of being the only settlement not founded as a penal colony. Or something.

Yes, as a private company with a charter from the king [IIRC].
Australia's first speculative real estate development - the Delfin of its day - with sweeteners like votes for women.

[JAS]

This might be of use to some posters here, but possibly not the majority. South Australia has the distinction of being the only settlement not founded as a penal colony. Or something.

More than well aware of that...but as with almost every population there will also be a lot of people/families who moved to SA from other parts of Australia...surely not even you would suggest that almost in SA marries interstate so to speak or moves from other States permenantly for work oppotunites etc. and after about 2 or 3 hundred years I'd imagine quite a many have done just that whether the current generations realize it or not.

Regards
JAS

[Pseudo]

This might be of use to some posters here, but possibly not the majority. South Australia has the distinction of being the only settlement not founded as a penal colony. Or something.

More than well aware of that...but as with almost every population there will also be a lot of people/families who moved to SA from other parts of Australia...surely not even you would suggest that almost in SA marries interstate so to speak or moves from other States permenantly for work oppotunites etc. and after about 2 or 3 hundred years I'd imagine quite a many have done just that whether the current generations realize it or not.

Regards
JAS

Hence the judicious use of the phrase "some posters" and the word "majority"