Historian · Genealogist · Curator
Maureen Martin Ferris
Forty years on the record of Tasmania and its East Coast.
A historian who reads the original record.
I have spent forty years in Tasmania's archives, tracing the people and places of the East Coast through the records they left behind.
Family histories, property histories, talks and indexes, each one written up with its sources so that the story stands. Formerly Curator of the East Coast Heritage Museum, now President and Research Officer of the Glamorgan Spring Bay Historical Society.
I acknowledge the Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work, and pay respect to Elders past and present.
years of research
years as museum curator
convicts indexed
record sets located in Sydney
registers catalogued
Forty years, one thread.
Research you can cite.
Every commission comes back with its sources: the record series, the reference, the page.
Historical Research
Places, events and communities, traced through the original recordsFamily History
Convict ancestors, free settlers, and the families who stayedPhotographs & Drone Images
Cemeteries, properties and historic sites, from the ground and the airAccessioning & Receipting
Cataloguing for museum and society collectionsPresentations
Talks for societies, schools and community groupsResearch Consultations
Where to look, and how to read what you find
Cited as the archives cite themTasmanian Archives, CON31/1/1Trove, The Mercury, 4 Mar 1854, p. 2
Take a volume from the shelf.
Indexes and finding aids compiled over years of work, free to anyone tracing Tasmanian history.
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GSB Convict Index
Index
Glamorgan Spring Bay Convict Index
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Papers in the State Library of NSW
Finding aid
Tasmanian Papers in the State Library of NSW
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Libraries Tasmania Registers
Finding aid
Libraries Tasmania Registers
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Helpful Websites
Directory
Helpful Websites
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AI in Genealogy
Guide
Using AI in Genealogy Research
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Photographs of Tasmania.
The newest additions to the photostream, many never published before. Turn the pages, or open a print to see it in full.
Photographs of Tasmania
From the collection ofMaureen Martin Ferris
Recent additions
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