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Melbourne volunteers' workshop
Our first Melbourne workshop on 25 June will be to get to know some of our volunteers, and start organising projects. This will be only the beginning—please do not feel you are missing out if you cannot be there.
We will commence with a talk by Alison Alexander and then spend the rest of the day organising groups and individual projects.
One of the reasons for holding it on a week day is that there are plenty of places to find lunch and where we can talk more informally. We are seeking as much advice from you as you will be from us!
We will spend the afternoon in small groups, showing you how to use the new online workstation and database.
RSVP to janetsm@unimelb.edu.au by 21 June.
Please let us know if you wish to come and whether you have any special needs regarding access to the building. Public transport is nearby and there may be parking room in the public car park run by the university in Bouverie Street. Otherwise, since it is not in the teaching period, there should be street parking with 4-hour meters.
Schedule:
10 am - 12 pm: Theatre 1, 221 Bouverie Street (Enter from street, down stairs to basement lecture theatres -- there is lift access, but let us know in advance).
12 pm - 1.30 pm: Lunch around Carlton, getting to know each other.
1.30 - 4 pm: Workshops on Fourth Floor, 207 Bouverie Street (same building).
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New volunteer group and discussion forums added
Dear volunteers,
At the Melbourne volunteers' workshop on 25 June, we identified a number of research tasks that volunteers can start working on. Some of these require physical access to sources, while others can be done online from any location. I have created a new group for coordinating Volunteers' projects, along with discussion forums for some of the tasks. If you are interested in helping with these or any other research tasks, please join the Volunteers' projects group at http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org/node/86860
I have also added general discussion forums to the existing groups for local and online volunteers. You can visit the forums for any group by going to a group's page and clicking on the Forums link above the group's name.
Re the Collins settlement
Dear Keryn,
We can put the 1803 convicts in if we have the key data on them which is in Marjorie Tipping's wonderful book. It doesn't matter that they were a few generations away from the WW1 - we are trying to trace ALL the convicts. What matters is that we have sufficient data on them. We need a team to transcribe the life after sentence data in Marjorie's book into the online database.
I'm thrilled by all your enthusiasm - this is exactly what I was hoping for. We are all so grateful,
Best
janet
Collins Settlement
Hi Janet
What about the Port Dalrymple Settlement? Are there any sources we can use to transcribe onto the database? I am particularly interested in these convicts and also the convicts who came to Tasmania from Norfolk Island.
regards Liz
Re: The Collins Settlement
I would love to help on this part of the project for starters - I will go about trying to purchase Marjorie Tipping's book so that I have it here. I then may be able to trace them beyond that down to WWI vets. Maybe Liz might like to do it as well? Seems a fantastic place to start.
Does anyone know where I can purchase her book - although, having said that, I think I've seen it for sale down at the Collins Settlement site itself - which makes sense. If it is, I'll let you know in case anyone else wants to be involved and they want a copy.
Thank YOU Janet for having a project like this for we frustrated history/research nuts to get our teeth into.
I will keep you posted ... as I'm want to do, LOL.
cheers all,
Keryn.
update on volunteer tasks
Dear volunteers,
Following is a copy of an email from Janet that is being sent to everyone who signed up for volunteer tasks at the 25 June workshop. I am sorry for the delay; we appreciate your enthusiasm very much, but both Janet and I have been flat out on other work since then.
Claudine
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Dear Team,
Thank- you all very much for coming to our workshop on 25 June and for volunteering so generously. I will be out of action for the next three weeks getting a new subject ready to start in the last week of July. Can you please wait until we can make individual contact with you, which I will endeavour to do in my spare time over the next 3 weeks and begin to sort out some work that can be shared about. Sue Kelso has already found around 1800 names in the Vic Pioneer Index that appear to have a Tasmanian birth in the family line. The job of tracking back on those possibles, as she has trialled and I have also done some time ago, is very slow and could be divvied up between a group of you. However we should wait until the new website is functioning because that will you many more facts against which to triangulate a family and a possible convict ancestor.
Once we have some work groups organised we should try and meet more often, just to keep us all on track. Mondays will be when the whole team will be in at the university during the semester, so that would be best for us. If Mondays are impossible for some of you, we will make other arrangements.
I hope to be back on deck properly in August.
Thank-you all again for all your suggestions and offers,
Best wishes
Janet
Jobs for all
Dear Janet,
I guess from reading your email that some time during August, volunteers in Tasmania might hear what jobs need doing and who is to do them.
Just like the others - have plenty to go on with. Plodding along with my soldiers and their convict ancestors.
Look forward to hearing from you later.
Andrea
Thankyou!
I look forward to August ... but, don't worry - I do genealogy, I'm sure there'll be enough to keep me busy between now and then ... there's always SOME lead to follow up on! :-)
Mondays are okay - we live down on the Mornington Peninsula and my hubby has the car - but, maybe I'd ask him to take the day off and drive me in.
I am looking so forward to this and I'm really pleased Janet has contacted us. Thanks, Claudine.
cheers all and stay warm,
Keryn.
Melbourne Get Together
I would have loved to have been there, but I have only just discovered this! I am passionate about research and have always held a fascination with the Tasmanian convicts since by grandmother took me to Tassie (hence Port Arthur) in 1973. I have been doing genealogy since I was in my early 20s - back in the microfiche and visits to the library days - and I have found the internet has just opened up the whole world. I am very excited about helping with this project and I look forward to more get-togethers.
cheers,
Keryn.
25 June workshop
Like Keryn, I was unable to be at the 25 June workshop (work full time as a teacher - last day of term - if only it had been scheduled for the following week!).
Can anyone let us know what was said and what decisions, if any, were made? I've been hoping to start work on a project, but have heard nothing so I'm waiting to get some sort of go ahead.
For example, are there to be more Melbourne meetings? Is there a Melbourne convenor? Can we start work soon? (I've already researched my own ancestors but am keen to get a bigger project started.)
So many questions, but it would be great to hear from someone how the day went.
Cheers,
Cheryl
Starting a Project
Hello Cheryl (echo echo echo)- where IS everyone?
I am so enthused about this - ready to make it my life's work! I sent an email to the admin on Saturday and was really hoping to get some type of answer or feedback so I might as well ask the questions here and see if someone - anyone - can help me (us).
Like you, I'm getting close to putting the last lot of "my" convicts up and then I really want to get my teeth into a project. But, as you'd appreciate - I don't want to reinvent the wheel if someone is already doing them.
As I live on the Mornington Peninsula I'd like to do the convicts from the Collins Settlement, but ....
1. Are they already being done?
2. Do they want them done as they ARE the first convicts - therefore 1803 - and their progeny would be a long way from any WWI soldiers?
3. They are also originally NSW convicts and they have said they only want Tasmanian convicts.
So, I really would like some answers before I set upon the task.
Cheryl, what kind of project are you looking to do?
Can someone PLEASE help us?
hopefully,
Keryn.
Starting a project
Hi Keryn
I also live on the Mornington Peninsula and my ancestors were in Tasmania in 1803 as well. They were part of the founding settlement at Port Dalrymple (Georgetown) so came first to New South Wales and then to Tasmania. This family intermarried in Tasmania with descendants of First and Second Fleeters who had been in turn to Norfolk Island before settling in Tasmania
I am wondering how they fit into the project just as you are.
Would like to be in contact with you in any case since you are in the "neighbourhood"
Regards
Elizabeth
Volunteers Workshop
Dear Janet,
I look forward to participating in the Volunteers workshop on Friday June 25th. Please register my name,
Kind Regards
Elizabeth Williamson (Liz)