Archives Office of Tasmania

The Archives Office is set up under the Archives Act to enable the State Archivist to provide:

a formal and transparent framework for recordkeeping across State and local government organisations and regulate the retention and disposal of their records
facilities for the preservation of the State’s archives, including records of non-government organisations and individuals
facilities and services to enable public access to the State’s archives

Our site provides information about these policy and regulatory structures and settings, facilities, and services and also includes:

the Tasmanian Archives Online database, which contains descriptive information about the State’s archives
name indexes, which index the contents of specific archival records relating to people
an index to our photographic holdings, which includes copies of the images
a database providing descriptive information about our film and video holdings

Tasmania's convict records are part of the Memory of the World