If you go to the website, http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=S&id=CON32 you will see that female convicts were only added from 1832, even though the males were added from 1828. Maree On 7/08/2014 11:38 AM, Douglas Burbury via wrote: > Thanks Mike, > > I did some sample checks of the first two volumes and found only male > convicts listed, so I assumed that there were only males in all of > CON32. Good to know I was wrong! > > Douglas > > > On 6/08/2014 4:44 PM, Mike Hurburgh wrote: >> Douglas, >> >>> "For male convicts, the supplementary volumes are recorded in the >>> CON32 series. I haven't been >able to find which series the >>> supplementary volumes for female convicts is contained in, or if >>>> indeed they exist." >> The female convict supplementary records are not separate - they are >> included along with the male records in the five supplementary volumes. >> >> The key to determining where your convict's record continues is the date >> of the last recorded note in the main record, as the supplementary >> volumes seem to be in strictly date order as the additional space was >> required. The page nos. given in the record are way out of sync with >> the folio nos. of the digitised records, and there seem to be quite a >> few page nos missing. >> > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >