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Article Published January 26, 2002 
Editor's Corner
By: Rick Roberts, rick@globalgenealogy.com Irish Convicts & Free Settlers To Australia I found an exciting (and free) resource on the internet last night. The National Archives of Ireland has provided a database of people who were transported to Australia for a variety of crimes and infractions. There are also some 'free settlers' included. Those 'free settlers' were members of the families of those transported. 
This valuable resource covers a wide period of time: 1788 to 1868.Searching the database is easy. Many readers will search the database using names however I also recommend searching it by word or phrase. On my first few searches, I looked for surnames and got the sort of results that you would expect. Then I searched an uncommon surname 'DEATH' (from Wexford County Ireland). The database did not include anyone of that surname, however I did get several responses to the search, based on the word death being somewhere in the record of one of the convicts... usually 'death sentence'. I also did some searches by place-name and found some interesting information. The fields that are included in this database are:
The web site address to search the The National Archives of Ireland Transportation Records Database is: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/search01.html Shopping Cart & Order Desk Global Genealogy & History Shoppe 1-800-361-5168 ( 9-5 Tuesday to Saturday )
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