Looking for a Convict Ancestor?

We can help you find more information about a nominated convict. For a AU$30 per search HISTORY SERVICES will undertake a search and include additional information such as references & convicts history. For more information click  here.....

Convict, Genealogy & History Links

♦NSW State Library Convict Records, including links to UK trial & Court records and the State Records NSW Archives in Brief as a starting point in searching for information about convict women at the Parramatta Female Factory. ♦Society of Australian Genealogists - Australia’s first family history society. ♦Cascades Female Factory Historic site  convict women transported to Van Dieman's Land, searchable convict women database, site history, tours and research groups. ♦Claim a Convict - excellent resource & comprehensive lists. ♦The Ships list website, online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships' passengers lists. ♦Convicts to Australia the definitive site for Convict Research on the World Wide Web. ♦Free Settler or Felon? Now with over 95,000 refernces to convicts, settlers, bushrangers, innkeepers, soldiers and landowners. ♦National Archives  UK Government and Information Management, direct link to Transportation to Australia 1787 -1868 catalogue. ♦NSW Convict Deaths & Burials Index 1828 -1879 ♦ Irish Convicts  comprehensive site on irish convicts with searchable database.

Parragirls

♦ A CONTACT REGISTER and SUPPORT NETWORK  - for Forgotten Australians committed to Government controlled child welfare institutions in Australia; - and for family, friends & supporters of the Forgotten Australians. ♦ INFORMATION SERVICE about the history & heritage of the CHILD WELFARE INSTITUTIONS IN NSW. ♦ FREE SELF GUIDED TOUR map of the PRECINCT PARRAGIRLS GOOGLE GROUP - a private discussion group  exclusively for former Parramatta Girls, Taldree & Kamballa. - to connect, share and support each other - see link below to register. Subscribe to parragirls Email: Visit this group

Parragirls Media Archives

ABC Stateline Reliving the Horror.30/5/03 More Victims of Parramatta Girls Home .. 6/6/03 ABC Stateline: The Reunion. 27/06/03 ABC Stateline. The Girls get together. 24/10/03 ABC Stateline: The ‘Girls’ Re-unite.7/11/03  ABC Sunday Arts, Parramatta Girls: 1/4/07 Exposed to Moral Danger 21/10/07 Creating a Space: Bessie Guthrie: 28/10/07 Hay Girls Reunion: 5/3/07

Forgotten Australians

Forgotten Australians Senate Report (2004) Who are the Forgotten Australians, what is their story and why it is important?

Support Groups Links

CREATE connects and empowers children and young people in care and improves the care system through activities, programs, training and policy advice. In the past 15 years CREATE has evolved from a small volunteer driven organisation to a national, professionally staffed one. This growth has enabled CREATE to reach more children and young people in care through program delivery, whilst simultaneously ensuring that their voice is heard by governments and out-of-home care sector stakeholders. Aftercare Resource Centre (ARC) is a program of Relationships Australia and provides specialist services to support people who, as children, were in out-of-home care. ARC have offices in Parramatta, NSW FREECALL 1800 656 884 and in South Brisbane Qld.

News Links

Lost Innocents hope for new beginning Sydney Morning Herald He will also say sorry to the more than 500000 "Forgotten Australians", many of whom suffered while in state care. Mrs Gallagher, now 66 and living in Woy ... Forgotten Australians Prepare for National Apology The Epoch Times Her story reflects that of more than half a million "forgotten" Australians who were placed in orphanages and institutions from the 1920s to the early 1970s ... Ordeal of Australia's child migrants BBC News On Monday the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will deliver a national apology to a group known as the "Forgotten Australians". ... Adviser urges compo for Forgotten Australians ABC Online The Federal Government's adviser on the apology to the Forgotten Australians says compensation is affordable and should be offered. The Government will make ... Forgotten no longer Northern Rivers Echo Local Tina Coutts is travelling down to Canberra for the apology to the Forgotten Australians on Monday. Tina Coutts' earliest memory is of being slapped ... Forgotten Aussies travel free to pm's apology NEWS.com.au - ‎Nov 11, 2009‎ "Forgotten Australians" from the 500,000 people taken from their families and put into state care will receive free rail travel from NSW to Canberra to attend.... A word for the forgotten children Sydney Morning Herald - Erik Jensen - ‎Nov 11, 2009‎ LESS than a week before the Prime Minister's apology to children abused in state care, it has emerged that Kevin Rudd has not met the advisory group ... Macklin moved by tales of Forgotten Australians ABC Online In an interview with The 7.30 Report, Ms Macklin says it is time Australia acknowledged the suffering of the Forgotten Australians. ... No recompense to victims 'foolish' Sydney Morning Herald ''Some of the states have already put in place various schemes to help forgotten Australians, and some have got different forms of assistance put in place ...