Hello All Meryl has kindly posted our list of books useful for convict research on the AUS-TAS website – see http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/convicts/con_books.html. If you have any more to add, please let us know. Thank you for all the contributions so far – “many heads make light work” ☺. Regards Trudy Dr Trudy Cowley List Administrator TAS Convicts Rootsweb List tcowley@bigpond.net.au AUS-TAS-CONVICTS-L@rootsweb.com

G'day folks! The first book I read on transportation was Don Chapman's '1788: The people of the First Fleet', Sydney, 1981. No Tasmanian content, but a good introduction to the whole subject I thought at the time, and I still dip into it occasionally. George Bell >Meryl has kindly posted our list of books useful for convict research >on the AUS-TAS website – see >http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/convicts/con_books.html. > >If you have any more to add, please let us know. Thank you for all the >contributions so far – “many heads make light work” ?. > >Regards >Trudy -- 113 East View, Wideopen, Tyne & Wear NE13 6EF, UK

Hi Trudy and list, I have found these books very useful for information on my early convict arrivals and their families. I haven't seen Irene Schaffer's book mentioned "Exiled Three times Over" an invaluable book for anyone with convict families sent to VDL from Norfolk Island. Convicts Unbound (by Marjorie Tipping) is another useful resource to the 'First Settlers' of VDL. Regards Lee-ann The Gardens Family History Bailey and Treloggen Families of St Helens, Tasmania http://www.thegardensfamily.com See my surname interest at: http://www.wags.org.au/mid/9139.htm