I wrote another post for the website Genealogists.com last week. Some of you may be familiar with the story of Roscoe’s great uncle William B. Schwartz. I used William as an example of an ancestor with a criminal past and some of the records needed to discover these fascinating stories.

http://blog.genealogists.com/2014/12/criminal-ancestry.html

This week I submitted an article on using land records in your research. Stay tuned!