Convictbook provides a way for people to connect with individual convicts and other people who are interested in those convicts.
The site displays a profile page for each of the convicts from the Convict Transportation Register from SLQ, which describes more than 123, 000 of the estimated 164, 000 convicts who were transported to Australia by the British government throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Images from Picture Australia and links to records from Trove’s People and Organisations data set are also displayed.
People viewing the convict profiles are invited to share the stories behind the data, contribute additional information, or discuss individual convicts with other people.
The site also provides a number of visualisations of the convict data to get people thinking about the data in different ways.
We hope that convictbook will become a hub for people to communicate with each other about individual convicts, for example, to trace common convict ancestors.
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