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The Compass

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  1. Public Records - Convicts
    1. Transportation to Australia 1787-1868
    2. Finding Out More About the Convict
    3. Still Want the Trial Record?
    4. Published Censuses/Musters of Early Australian Settlers
      (Including Convicts)
  2. Emigrants
    1. Records Relating to General Destinations
    2. Privy Council Registers 1540-1978
    3. Plantation Books 1678-1806
    4. Audit Office Declared Accounts 1779-1827
    5. Assize Records 1559-1972
    6. Transport Department Records
    7. Colonial Office Emigration Original Correspondence 1817-1896  
    8. Admiralty Medical Journals - Includes those of emigrant
      ships 1815-1853
    9. Registers, Various - Registers of convicts on ships,
      1819-1834
    10. Ministry of Health Poor Law Union Papers 1834-1890 -
      material about parish-assisted emigration under the new
      Poor Law of 1834
    11. Foreign Office Passport Registers 1795-1898
    12. Passenger Lists
    13. Registers of Passenger Lists, 1906-1951
    14. Records Relating to Individual Colonies
    15. America and the West Indies
    16. Australia
  3. Passport Records
    1. Licenses to Pass Beyond the Seas
    2. Entry Books and Registers
    3. Indexes
    4. Correspondence
    5. Representative Case Papers
    6. Representative Examples of Passports Issued
    7. Colonial and Consular Issues
  4. Ship's Passenger Lists
    1. Arrivals, 1878-1960
    2. Departures, 1878-1960
    3. Registers of Passenger Lists, 1906-1951
    4. Ships Arriving in the USA
    5. How to Find Your Passenger List





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Research for the original information found in the ISTG COMPASS was conducted by Harriet Rosch and the late Donna Jackson. The ISTG Compass began to guide researchers in September 1999, and is an invaluable research site for genealogists.


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