Thanks to all and Lesley as usual helpful and easy to understand even late in the day regards Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Uebel" <ckennedy@bigpond.net.au> To: <aus-convicts@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-CON] Convict FOWLERS > > Hi Ted > > With the Tasmanian Conduct records, they are arranged alphabetically by > year of > arrival. As you will know the year of arrival, then it is quite easy to > flick > through to the particular year and then go through page by page. > > You can test this out by going to the first page and checking the first > year of > arrival - then go to the last page and again check the arrival year of > those > convicts. Let us say 1823 is the first and 1850 is the last and your > convict > arrived about 1837, you would go to abut half way of the pages available > and > check those. > > That sounds a bit convoluted - but it's late :) > > > You really have to know the name (both Christian and Surname) of your > convict > before commencing any research. > > regards > Lesley Uebel > mailto:ckennedy@bigpond.net.au > CLAIM A CONVICT > http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: aus-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:aus-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Ted & Magi > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:39 PM > To: AUS-CONVICTS@rootsweb.com > Subject: [AUS-CON] Convict FOWLERS > > > The State Library of Queensland has produced a Convict transportation > register > on line which gave me 77 convicts named FOWLER transported between 1787 > and > 1867. The Tasmanian archives also give FOWLERS sent to Tasmania between > 1823 and > 1850. The Tasmanian site has references and links to further information > about > the convicts including a digitalised volume on conduct records. Very > interesting > but 188 unindexed pages takes a fairly long time to download and browse > page by > page. > I am sure some lister has followed these links before and may care to > share > their experience on how to find the most information on line. I'm happy > enough > to visit a library or family history centre but I'm a fair way away from a > large > centre and I'd like to know what to look for before I arrive. > TIA > Ted > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 3467 (20080924) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > >