As is Shauna's custom, the slides she used are made available on her personal website (http://www.shaunahicks.com.au/). On the Resources tab, scroll down till you find Skeletons in the family: looking at convicts, prisons and asylum records. Then you can review the whole talk and follow the links at your leisure.
To mark National Family History Month, we had a visit from Shauna Hicks who gave a presentation on the rich information (and great stories) you can find when you have an ancestor who was a transported convict, a criminal, or someone confined to an asylum at some time in their life.
As is Shauna's custom, the slides she used are made available on her personal website (http://www.shaunahicks.com.au/). On the Resources tab, scroll down till you find Skeletons in the family: looking at convicts, prisons and asylum records. Then you can review the whole talk and follow the links at your leisure.
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Les discussed how careful preparation (based upon an understanding of what you want to find, what might be available and what you already know) can ensure that you derive the most benefit from a visit to a repository such as the Queensland State Archives. He emphasised that although you should not plan to try to do too much on a single visit, it is important to have a back-up task (Plan B) in case your main focus is blocked by some unforeseen barrier.
He illustrated his points by highlighting some not-so-well-known indexes Oaths sworn by Justices and Reformatory School Registers) that can be searched on-line from home (or at the library) to identify the microfilm images that you want to search when at Runcorn. Group members without ancestors falling into either of those groups can look for more relevant options on this page describing other possibilities. Les also generously made available his personal work plan template (in Word doc format) for mebers to download ad adapt to their purposes. Bob offered some hints on how group members can get better value for the time they spend using FamilySearch. Some of the hints that were discussed have been described on a new FamilySearch section of this website and more will be added.
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