FAS Convict Ship 360.30 America arrived 1831 at VDL Prosopography Index

This collection provides a complete list of convict names and sufficient biographical data to enable unambiguous identification of convicts who were disembarked from convict ship "America" at Van Diemen's Land on 1831-05-09

This includes, where known, an estimation of the year of birth, place of birth, where and when convicted, the sentence, the date of arrival in the colony and the convict's age on arrival. The brief convict biographical data provided in this collection serves as an index into the far more extensive set of life course events which are recorded in the prosopgraphy database built by the Founders and Survivors project.

Basic details for this ship:
* ship name (as known in VDL records): America
* sailed date : 1831-01-06 from Downs
* arrival date : 1831-05-09
* population (per Bateson's The Convict Ships): Embarked:189 Women ; Deaths:3 Women ; Landed:186(VDL) Women

Data for convicts listed in this collection comes from the source which has been determined by Founders and Survivors to form the "base population" for this ship. Further information as to the methodology and the linkage of multiple sources is detailed in the narrative format of the collection. The matching and linkage of additional sources about Tasmanian convict's is the subject of ongoing research. This collection may be repuplished regularly, and in additional formats and with specific user interfaces, to enable public participation in the quality of convict matching and linkage -- see for example the EXPERIMENTAL linkage.htm format for this collection.
Linkage for ships arriving at Norfolk Island and Port Philip is incomplete.

This ship's prosopography index is published in a directory named "360.30" (the ship's project id). Three three different file formats provided:
-- (default; suitable for web browsing) HTML: world wide web hypertext markup language format which provides a "narrative" view of the collection (index.htm); and
-- (structured prosopgraphy: persons and events) XML / TEIp5 : Text Encoding Initiative (version p5) XML format which provides the underlying XML database for this collection (index.xml); and
-- [Not yet available] (row/column flat) simple list of convict names in a flat file, tab delimited, suitable for Excel, Stata, SPSS or database usage (index.tab). See notes below.

本数据集收录了完整的流放者姓名列表与详实的生平信息，可精准识别1831年5月9日在范迪门领地（Van Diemen's Land）从流放船"America"（美国号）下船的所有流放者。

若资料可查，数据集还包含流放者的出生年份估算值、出生地、定罪地点与时间、判决结果、抵达殖民区的日期，以及抵达时的年龄。

本数据集提供的简要流放者生平信息，可作为索引，用于检索“奠基者与幸存者”（Founders and Survivors）项目所构建的人物志数据库中收录的更为丰富的人生轨迹事件。

该流放船的基本信息如下：
* 范迪门领地（VDL）档案中记载的船名："America"（美国号）
* 启航日期：1831年1月6日，从唐斯锚地（Downs）出发
* 抵达日期：1831年5月9日
* 据贝茨顿（Bateson）所著《流放船史》（The Convict Ships）记载：登船女性流放者共189人；途中亡故3人；最终在范迪门领地登陆的女性流放者共186人

本数据集收录的流放者数据，源自“奠基者与幸存者”项目认定的该船流放者“基准群体”来源资料。关于数据处理方法与多源数据关联的详细说明，收录于本数据集的叙事型文档中。

针对塔斯马尼亚流放者的额外来源资料匹配与关联工作，目前仍在研究中。本数据集将定期以新增格式、搭配专属用户界面重新发布，以吸纳公众参与流放者资料匹配与关联的质量优化工作——例如可参阅本数据集的实验性关联页面（EXPERIMENTAL linkage.htm）。

针对抵达诺福克岛与菲利普港的船只的关联工作尚未完成。

该船的人物志索引以编号为"360.30"的目录发布（该编号为该船的项目ID）。本数据集提供三种不同格式的文件：
-- （默认格式，适用于网页浏览）超文本标记语言（HyperText Markup Language，HTML）格式：以"叙事型"视图展示本数据集，对应文件为index.htm；
-- （结构化人物志：人物与事件）可扩展标记语言/TEI P5格式：采用文本编码倡议（Text Encoding Initiative，版本p5）规范的XML格式，为本数据集的底层XML数据库，对应文件为index.xml；
-- 【暂未上线】（行列扁平格式）纯文本制表符分隔的流放者姓名列表，适用于Excel、Stata、SPSS或数据库导入使用，对应文件为index.tab。详见下文说明。