Convicts and Criminals In Your Family Tree

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Did you know that Ancestry.com has a large collection of prison records? Did you know that newspapers often published information about local crimes, criminal trials and sentencing? Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to find these records and how to search them. You may discover a black sheep in your family tree after all.
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@russbear31 11 жыл бұрын

Great video. I have some black sheep too: Around 1923 two of my distant cousins married a couple of sisters. I discovered newspaper articles from 1928 that showed that these two sisters were busted for running a "house of ill repute." The brothers promptly divorced their hooker wives, and then the wives turned around and married two of the johns listed in the newspaper article about the whorehouse bust. :-) It's an embarrassing story, but it puts a lot of things into perspective.

@robertandrews1432 6 жыл бұрын

Not always "Black Sheep". The British would arrest an Irishman for spitting on the sidewalk. At one time they had over 200 capital punishment crimes. See if your local library has the book, "In Search of a Forlorn Hope". by John Kitzmiller II .

@sherylginsberg 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! Really helpful!

@mitchnyny 11 жыл бұрын

Very helpful.

@robertandrews1432 6 жыл бұрын

I had an Irish convict that was tried in 1838 and sentenced to 7 years, He was sent to Norfolk Island off the coast of southern Australia. I found this before Ancestry did. I should've waited.

@scantorna8872 6 жыл бұрын

Bob Andrews Maybe my relative lol

@shaffy856 2 жыл бұрын

We forget America was once and English colony lol they just shipped their criminals out of the country. Hmmm 🤔

@leavesofdistinction1679 3 жыл бұрын

This is VERY helpful, but most of my records are hidden in the basement of courthouses and in storage rooms for records off site.

@greghanson407 4 жыл бұрын

I have a relative who was involved in several court cases from 1894-1905 in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, Wisconsin disposes of its civil case files after 35 years and its criminal case files after 75 years.

@leavesofdistinction1679 3 жыл бұрын

That certainly doesn't leave much time when you add in the 72-year rule. 😞

@crystalwolfer4117 4 жыл бұрын

How far back is too far?

@JulianaSmith3 9 жыл бұрын

Sherry, you are correct in that Ancestry unfortunately does not currently have Arizona prison records, but there are some held at the Arizona State Library. Details here: ancstry.me/1zm3AIY Good luck!

@bearpawz_ 9 жыл бұрын

Interesting stuff ~ but I'm having a @#* of a time finding ANYTHING in the card catalog for an ancestor who spent time in prisons in the state of Arizona. Either Arizona hasn't shared much of their penitentiary files with ancestry.. or I'm doing something wrong in the card catalog search. :0/

@leavesofdistinction1679 3 жыл бұрын

Try calling the Department of Corrections for Arizona to figure out where you might locate records. 🙂