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Author	Hawkings, David T.
Title	Criminal ancestors : a guide to historical criminal records in England and Wales / David T. Hawkings.
Published/Produced	London : History Press, 2009.
Edition	Rev. ed.

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LOCATION	CALL NO	STATUS	NOTE	MESSAGE
3rd Floor Genealogy Books	929.342 HAW	FOR USE IN STATE LIBRARY
1st Floor Stack	929.342 HAW	AVAILABLE		REQUEST RETRIEVAL

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Call Number	929.342 HAW
ISBN	9780750950572
Physical description	xvii, 492 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes	Includes index.
	Bibliography: p. 371-377.
Summary	When a family historian discovers a criminal way back in the family tree, he or she needs to know how to trace that person. David Hawkings here offers practical in-depth guidelines for researching these criminal ancestors, many of whom were 'obliged' to steal for mere survival and suffered imprisonment for the most trivial offences. His pioneering study includes surveys of material held by all County and Borough Record Offices, police archives and other repositories, as well as numerous example cases and illustrations, appendices with source material, and a case history to show the extent to which one individual criminal can be researched.
Subjects	Criminal records -- England.
	Criminal records -- Wales.
	England -- Genealogy.
	Wales -- Genealogy.