Transcribers' Workshop for Tasmanian Female Convict Records with Colette McAlpine of the Female Factory Research Group.

Bookings for this workshop are now closed.

Afternoon tea will be provided.

Learn how to transcribe the digitised description, indent and conduct records of Tasmanian female convicts into the Female Family Founders Database. This database is an initiative of the Female Factory Research Group. It was started in 2004 with the assistance of volunteers and continues to be maintained and updated by volunteers.

Any female convict who spent time in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) is eligible to be included in the database. Thus, it not only includes those women transported directly to the colony, but also those who came free and were convicted locally, and those who were transported to New South Wales and later came to Tasmania.

The database has four purposes:

• to link descendants and researchers of these convict women;
• to act as a repository of stories and images of these convict women;
• to determine which of these convict women spent time in the female factories and other convict institutions; and
• to document the lives of these women.

This project is now allied with the Founders and Survivors Project.

Colette McAlpine is the coordinator of transcribers. In this introductory workshop Colette will explain what information is available on the records and how that information is recorded in the database. A User Guide will be available.