Yes, I read that but that did not answer my question.  I do not really want to spend a lot of time on family that may not exist.  My father did not always tell the truth, sad to say.  Have no idea of the surname, can only guess.  So, it is better that I work on something else.   Alanna --- On Sat, 3/19/11, Margaret Spearin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Margaret Spearin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] NSW shiplists online To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011, 1:44 PM 'Online' microfilm of shipping lists This is part of a pilot project to digitise the following passenger lists: the microfilm copies of the Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists), 1838-96 (NRS 5316); Persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-51 (NRS 5318); Germans on bounty ships, 1849-52 (NRS 5320); Members of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-57 (NRS 5322) and Passenger lists of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-55 (NRS 5323). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alanna L Scanlon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] NSW shiplists online Hi Margaret, I am under the impression that this list covers all of Australia. If people were on a convicts' list or even other lists, would those going to Tasmania be on these lists? Thank you for your help. Alanna --- On Sat, 3/19/11, Margaret Spearin <[email protected]> wrote: Hi list I just found this link on other list, and thought it might be useful for anyone looking for ancestors going to Australia between 1838 -1896. It's a Pilot and its free http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/nrs-lists/nrs-5316#the-list-of-ships Margaret ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Alanna, If you read the instructions, how can you be under the false impression that the list covers all of Australia? It covers Assisted or Bounty immigrants to NSW with some early arrivals in Port Phillip. This does not include convict or unassisted immigrants or any who came as ships crew or military, some of whom will be on separate indexes for which papers have not been digitised. If you have a specific question, please ask it. But we cannot do anything with families that may not exist, a father that did not always tell the truth, no surname and only a guess. It's just wasting our time. Peter