From public intoxication to petty theft, here are our top 5 books for researching criminal history in your family tree
10 January 2023
Finding an ancestor who broke the law can be a surprise; it can raise lots of questions about the circumstances that brought them to court or prison. When imprisoned for a crime we would consider minor today, it can also make us wonder about how the law operated in the past. Criminal justice records are some of the richest we can find.They contain information not just about the crime our ancestor was accused of or served time for, but
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