update on info published on Judy Small's site

The 2001 Census (100 years since Federation) included a provision for the person filling it in to allow their data to be kept for 100 years securely in Archives. Not the form - the Census Act say it must be destroyed, but the complete forms of willing Australians were copied before destruction. See www.abs.gov.au for further info.

Further to 19th Century attitudes to convicts in the family -

A Minister of Religion was meeting up with an old lag who was happy to reminisce about his days in jail - his grown daughters were horrified & I bet never mentioned that fact to their decscendants.

Any one who went Home (to England that is!) many years after their first arrival in Sydney referred to the second return to Oz as their year of arrival!

sandra