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Services
Fees |
The Female
Factory Research Group can assist you with
research into female convicts who spent
time in Van Diemen's Land. |
Services
We offer
the following services:
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provide
copies and/or typed transcriptions of convict
records, including:
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conduct
records (example,
example) |
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indents
(example) |
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description
lists (example) |
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appropriation
lists |
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surgeon's
reports |
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permission
to marry applications |
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conduct
searches to determine if an ancestor arrived
as a convict |
Our transcription
services are particularly useful to those people who
have difficulty reading and interpreting convict records.
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Minimum
Fee - $35 (includes up to 1 hour search/transcription
time) |
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Hourly
Rate - $35 per hour (or part thereof, in excess
of 1 hour) |
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Additional
Costs include copies @ $1.10 per page, postage
and handling |
Most
basic searches take 1-2 hours and are completed within
2-3 weeks of request. You will be invoiced at
the completion of the research.
If you
wish to engage our services, please complete the application
form:
download
in
MS Word format
PDF format.
You can
either the email or post the form to us. If
you have any queries, please contact:
Dr Trudy Cowley or
Dr Dianne Snowden
by email
(click on the
link)
or by
phone (03 6278 7398)
If you
are interested in a similar service for male convict
records, go to the
Port Arthur Historic Site.
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