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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A notice to Friends of Founders & Survivors from Janet McCalman:

We regret that owing to worsening technical and security problems we have had to close part of the FAS website to public use. You can still search for a convict and read the transcriptions of his/her records, but, at present, ONLY VOLUNTEERS can access the Community Contributed material. You can still access the FAS newsletter 'Chainletter' via the website.

When the project is transferred to an official, long-term site next year, all users will again be able to access Community Contributed material. By this time the data will have been cleansed, sorted and verified by the volunteers.

We thank you for your support and are much relieved that Founders & Survivors as a community history resource has been promised a secure future by the Tasmanian Government.