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Added: I think there are some rootschatters who are descended from first and second fleeters.
Agree, fairly sure there are several regulars on the boards and/or in the Chat room.
My earliest migrants to NSW came free, 1790s from Scotland. Earliest convicts also from Scotland, 1810s. On the NSW 1828 census I can find direct lines on both my tree and my husband's tree.
I am fortunate, several of my ancestors were military, paper pushers ... settled in NSW and kept up the paper pushing efforts. Then 1850s and the commencement of civil registration NSW bdm.... so more clerical bods .... all part of the NSW Lands Office, .... so until mid 1970s NSWBDM was actually part of the Land Titles Office functions.
So all my siblings born NSW, all our offspring, their children and now their children's children ... NSW born.
Both my parents were from large rural NSW families, my youngest living aunt/uncle born NSW 1928. Their oldest sibling (now deceased) born before federation. My oldest living from my parents generation, born NSW 1917. He is very alive, alert and very knowledgeable.
My 4 grandparents .... all born NSW 1870s and 1880s.
All 8 ... NSW born before the gold rushes
16 .... mostly NSW ...
32 ... back to the era of Lachlan Macquarie 1810 - 1821 so many NSW born.
Great Question. The important aspect to my research is that I was introduced to it back in 1950s as a child, and supported by my grandparents and by my Second Class 2A infants teacher. Her grandfather had nursed her as a baby. He had been transported under a Life Sentence. NOT at any time until I was an adult did I ever hear or read of any tainted blood or stain. I was at school with children whose parents were displaced by Hitler's Wars. I was at school with children who Dads were ex Changi, at school with Aboriginal children, with Tykes, Prodoes, 7th Days, ... with Whallopers children, with SP betting operators Publicans sly trading Sundays ...and we all got on.
JM one finger typing sorry for typos.
Edit for spelling ... some is my fingers but some is predictative thingy.