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Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society.
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Want to volunteer for a ship project?
Anyone interested in signing up for a ship project should email Janet McCalman on janetsm@unimelb.edu.au.
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Melbourne volunteers' workshop, 23 June 2012
23 June 2012. 11.00 am to 3.30 pm.
Venue: Centre for Health & Society, 4th floor, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton. (map)
Lunch will be provided and we will be working in small groups.
Please RSVP for this workshop to Claudine Chionh on clchionh@unimelb.edu.au by 15 June 2012.
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Tasmanian Founders & Survivors Workshops, 2 and 3 June 2012
We are pleased to be able to announce that the proposed workshops will go ahead: on Saturday 2 June in Hobart and Sunday 3 June in Launceston. Janet McCalman will be coming from Melbourne to run the workshop in partnership with Colette McAlpine and Trudy Cowley from the Female Convicts Research Centre (FCRC).
Hobart: Saturday 2 June 2012: 9.30 - 1.00
The Hub, Linc Tasmania, Murray Street, Hobart. Parking in Melville Street Carpark.
We can have morning coffee in the cafe and those who wish to join us for lunch are very welcome.
Launceston: Sunday 3 June 2012: 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Learning Centre Inveresk (see map below)
You are welcome to join us for lunch in the café at 12.00 pm and we will take afternoon tea in the café.
Please RSVP to Claudine Chionh at clchionh@unimelb.edu.au by 18th May. Please communicate with Claudine rather than the FCRC team, as we need to centralise the administration.
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CORRECTION to Newsletter No. 10, April 2012
CORRECTION: the date for finishing the ships projects is July 2013, NOT 2012.
Janet sends her apologies for missing this typo.
Revised copies of Chainletter can be downloaded below.
In this issue, we report on the progress of the Ships Project, deadlines for the Founders and Survivors project, recent research, and workshops to be held in Tasmania and Victoria in June.
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