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> Well, a whole bunch of Americans may want to rethink investigating their 
> ancestors.  The Brits sent just as many convicts to the "colonies" as they 
> did to Australia.  For some strange reason that doesn't seem to make the 
> history books.

Of course, being called a criminal by the British govenment at the time was 
as often a commendation than not.   </HTML>