During our country's 150th anniversary celebration of confederation I will write posts titled Canada 150 with a link to a publica...

There have been more publications for Ireland uploaded to Internet Archive. These have to do with returns of convicts and prisoners. On...

There have been more publications for Ireland uploaded to Internet Archive and to HathiTrust. These have to do with public records and ch...

During our country's 150th anniversary celebration of confederation I will write posts titled Canada 150 with a link to a publica...

This article appeared in the Pittsburgh Press on March 5, 1928 ... They don't give any name of the murderess in the article, ...

In the Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada the employees of the Justice Department are mentioned in the Auditor General's Repor...

The following publications have to do with Assizes, Curia Regis (King's court) and Oyer and Terminer. These are names for court proce...

Do you have an ancestor who was naughty?  Or downright criminal? Can’t find an ancestor on an early census… did you check the jai...

All of us who have children worried when they were young about who would look after them if something happened to us, the parents...

Not everyone wrote a will, and not every will has to be probated. That said, I have found probate records for a value of effects as...