Name indexes
The Archives Office has developed some on-line indexes to records which contain information about individuals. These indexes generally provide the name of the person in the specified record, some additional identifying information, and references to the record itself. These are most likely to be of interest to researchers undertaking family history but also in cases such as the ¿wills index¿ which covers modern records as well, for lawyers and others interested in a particular piece of information.
- Wills - covers wills and letters of administration of estates registered for probate
- Tasmanian convicts - indexes all convicts transported to Tasmania and those convicted locally through the convict system
- Departures - indexes people leaving Tasmanian ports
- Arrivals - indexes passengers and ships arriving, mainly in Hobart;
- General index - indexes contents of a range of records, mainly names, but some subjects;
- Inquests - indexes records of inquests into people's deaths from the 1820s to the 1920s - inquests into fires are indexed in the 'general index'.
- Census index - covers people (householders) in the 1840s and 1850s.
- Naturalisations - covers people applying to become citizens up to 1904
- Convict applications for permission to marry - covers convicts applying to marry free people or other convicts
- Divorces - covers people getting divorced up to 1920
- Colonial Tasmanian Family Links database - is not a direct index to records but contains a large amount of information (not necessarily verified) about Tasmanian families.
