FAS volunteers working on the Ships Project trace the lives of every convict on a ship, finding marriages, births and deaths of the convicts and their children. They also trace any AIF descendants - ie, those who fought in WWI. It is very interesting, but time-consuming research.

As this project needs to be completed by the end of July 2013, we can no longer accept new volunteers to this project.

Registered users can keep abreast of the project by subscribing Chainletter, the newsletter of the Founders and Survivors project (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/user/me/edit/newsletter).