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From midnight tonight 10 Jun 2016 (12.01am Friday) to 11.59pm on Monday, online family-history site Ancestry is offering free access to more than 55 million New Zealand, Australian, and UK criminal, convict and other subterfuge-related records, some dating back to the 1700s.

The records include early New Zealand jury lists, bankruptcy notices from 1893-1904, Australian Convict Transportation Registers from the first three fleets 1787-1868, Criminal Registers of England & Wales from 1791-1892, UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books from 1802-1849, Dorset, England, Bastardy Records from 1821-1853, British King’s Bench and Fleet Prison Discharge Books and Prisoner Lists, 1734-1862, England & Wales Criminal Lunacy Warrant and Entry Books from 1882-1898, and British Criminal Lunatic Asylum Registers from 1820-1843.

http://www.ancestry.com.au/blacksheep2016

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Online family trees

 

Another way to give your research a jump start is to find others researching the same families as you.

There are many sites where you can find family trees.

But BEWARE!

Not everyone has been as careful as you about

  • checking your data,
  • noting your sources (what you found, where, when, and from whom),
  • documenting why you have reached the conclusions you have reached, or in
  • acknowledging the people who helped you reach those conclusions.

Most sites will have an ability to add Post-it notes for corrections, queries and contact details for the submitter.

Just some of the most popular – there are many others out there.

Free trees:

Collaborative – ie work with others to improve an overall one-world tree:

WikiTree.com

FamilySearch.org

Individual trees, easily refreshed via GEDCom from your genie program:

Rootsweb (WorldConnect)

Commercial sites:

Ancestry – tree itself only requires registration, not a subscription, and may be shared with others to work with them on your tree, but maximum benefit gained with a subscription to attach sources from their extensive collections.

MyHeritage – small trees may be built for free, but as per ancestry, more benefit obtained via a subscription

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