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Building my family tree through ancestry.com.au and the ipad app and got right back to 1700 and discovered I had a relative on the First Fleet - Scarborough ship.



Pretty cool - even though he did apparently steal hairdressing goods! (razors, scissors, soap, ribbons and powders) :blink: Then his wife got sent here 13 years later. I think she just wanted a free trip! :lol:



Can highly recommend this site! :thumbsup:
 
Because of problems with the penal colony in Africa, Johns destination was changed to Botany Bay and he eventually set sail on the Scarborough, one of the First Fleet ships, on 13 May 1787. The First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788.



Wow to that too! Africa!
 
GarnettFan4Life said:
8 generations down as far as I can see on the app
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So that makes you the great great great great great grandson of the first lot of refudgees.

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GarnettFan4Life said:
Because of problems with the penal colony in Africa, Johns destination was changed to Botany Bay and he eventually set sail on the Scarborough, one of the First Fleet ships, on 13 May 1787. The First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788.



Wow to that too! Africa!
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Have all your 8 generations been living close to Sydney? Seems like you guys are staying put here forever.................
 
I couldn't see the need to have a membership for longer then a 14day trial really. I might look into it!
 
KB. said:
I couldn't see the need to have a membership for longer then a 14day trial really. I might look into it!
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yeah I'm interested to see what happens after the trial ends because you can see and add scans of old books/page scans of gaol transport, immigration papers etc to your family tree so I hope they will still be visible. I did buy a couple before I figured out there was a trial and they were $0.99 and $1.99 each so maybe it will just revert to that if you want to add stuff like old scans to your tree.
 
I've always been interested in this kind of stuff...... so thanks for the insight Matt! :thumbsup:

How much info do you need to know yourself to get that far back?
 
Names, births, death, places lived at, maiden names help. Then it can search electoral roles, immigration and distant relative family trees.

Some of my branches stopped short after not much but one one branch I'm back to like 1550 in England :thumbsup:
 
lilreddevil said:
Does it work for Chinese people? LOL Like can they access our records too? :S
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There is a separate fee for worldwide record access. I was able to see that one of my relatives was born in China (the rest of the family in NSW) but no more details, and also back through UK but got to a point where there was an immigration document from somewhere to the UK (in like the 1600's) which I couldn't see. You can pay $10.95 and view 10 records worldwide within 14 days or it's like another fee as above per month.
 
Pretty cool that your ancestors go back to the original whites in australia (we won't count the failed dutch colony near Dampier, WA). None of my ancestors go back that far - we're all free settlers. I do have an Italian WWI medal honor, a Key figure in the Eureka Stockade and Irish Royalty in my family though.
 
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