Hello Listers. For the past few weeks, whenever the topic of Assignment Registers has been raised here, I have been trying to find an impressive article written about them, as well as about other archive topics. Could never find it. Then, serendipity delivered it to me, in a link to a new Archives Outside posting from NSW State Records. So here is the sad information about the PURPOSEFUL destruction of so many convict records, courtesy of Ms Christine SHERGOLD at NSW State Records. Read it and weep! http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/resources-for/historians/convicts/new-south-wales-convict-records-lost-and-saved ray