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No matter what they did, they're still family. Over the course of several days in January, 1788, 11 ships from the British First Fleet delivered their cargo of 732 British, North American, West Indian and African convicts to Sydney Cove. As the prisoners disembarked, they knew there was little chance of seeing their homeland or loved ones again. Were your ancestors on board? Over the next 80 years more than 165,000 convicts were transported the 15,000 mile journey to Australia and it has recently been estimated that two million Brits have convict ancestors and four million Australians are of convict descent. We invite you to search this collection and discover your convict ancestors. After all, they’re still family.
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