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• Ancestry.com - Search Tax, Criminal, Land & Wills

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • U.S. Penitentiary Records, 1875-1963

    Includes Alcatraz, California, U.S. Penitentiary, Prisoner Index, 1934-1963; Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Penitentiary, Prisoner Index, ca. 1880-1922; Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. Penitentiary, Name Index to Inmate Case Files, 1895-1931; McNeil Island, Washington, U.S. Penitentiary, Photos and Records of Prisoners Received, 1875-1939.

    • Alcatraz, California, U.S. Penitentiary, Prisoner Index, 1934-1963

      Original source: Alphabetical Index of Former Inmates of U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, 1934–63. NARA Microfilm Publication 458. Records of the Bureau of Prisons, 1870–2009, Record Group 129. NARA, Pacific Regional Office, San Francisco, California.

    • Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Penitentiary, Prisoner Index, ca. 1880-1922

      Original source: Index to Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Inmate Case Files, 1902-1921. [CD]. NARA Southeast Region (Atlanta) (NRCA), 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, Georgia 30260.

    • Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. Penitentiary, Name Index to Inmate Case Files, 1895-1931

      Original source: Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. Penitentiary, Name Index to Inmate Case Files, 1895-1931. Series: Inmate Case Files, compiled 07/03/1895–06/06/1952. NARA Central Plains Regional Office, digital images A458. Records of the Bureau of Prisons, 1870–2009, Record Group 129. Kansas City, Missouri.

    • McNeil Island, Washington, U.S. Penitentiary, Photos and Records of Prisoners Received, 1875-1939

      Original source: McNeil Island Penitentiary Records of Prisoners Received, 1887-1951; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1619, 4 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Prisons, Record Group 129; National Archives, Washington, D.C. McNeil Island Penitentiary Prisoner Identification Photographs 1875-ca. 1923 (ARC # 608846); Bureau of Prisons, Record Group Number 129; National Archives Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle).

• AUSTRALIAN-POWS Mailing List

  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Australian soldiers in prisoner-of-war (POW) camps. Archives: browse or search.

• Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service - Bedfordshire Gaol Register

  Covers the time period between 1801 and 1879 with some gaps. Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

• Beveren-Waas, Prisons 1857

  Belgium.

• Black Sheep Index

  More than 500,000 names taken from more than 2,000 newspapers & journals, etc. From the United Kingdom.

• Canada Criminal Databases

• Civilian Internees of the Japanese in Singapore during WWII

  From Alex Glendinning's Asian Pages.

• Colorado State Archives Colorado State Penitentiary Prisoner Index 1871 - 1973

  From the Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration (DPA) Division of Information Technologies (DoIT).

• Colorado State Archives Corrections Records

  From the Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration (DPA) Division of Information Technologies (DoIT). The Colorado State Archives is a primary repository for Colorado State Penitentiary and Reformatory records. Researchers can find biographical information about particular inmates, as well as information about their crime, sentence and parole or pardon. Mug shots exist for most penitentiary inmates. Since the Colorado State Archives is also the repository for governors' records, researchers may also be able to find Executive Pardons and governors' correspondence concerning corrections matters.

• Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada: A Researcher's Guide

  A book by Janice Nickerson.

• Denver Public Library: Western History Genealogy: Research Tools - Colorado State Reformatory Prisoner Records: 1887-1939

  During the period 1887 through 1939, over 9700 inmates were booked at the state reformatory in Buena Vista, Colorado. Each inmate was assigned a unique number during his stay at the reformatory.

• Index to The Joliet, IL Prison Convict Register as transcribed by GenealogyTrails

  Transcriptions of the Alton Prison registers up to 1860 and the Joliet Prison registers

• Institute of National Remembrance: Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation

  Poland. Preserving the memory of the losses suffered by the Polish Nation as the result of World War 2 and the post-war period.

• Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920

• Japanese-American Internee File, 1942 - 1946

  From the National Archives. Personal descriptive data about Japanese-Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Each record represents an individual internee and includes the internee's name, relocation project and assembly center to which assigned, previous address, birthplace of parents, occupation of father, education, foreign residence & more.

  • Online searchable database

• Memorial

  Preservation of the memory of the victims of political persecution in the former Soviet Union.

• Never Forgotten

  The story of the Taiwan POW Camps.

  • The Men

    Alphabetical listing of POWs.

• Upper Canada (Ontario) Criminal Database

  Database indexes prison registers from Toronto, Whitby, Guelph, Woodstock, Chatham, Cobourg, Kitchener, Windsor, Peterborough, Lindsay, Owen Sound, Brockville, Belleville, Picton.

• Upper Canada Genealogy - Gore District Debtors

  An index of names of residents of Gore District who were jailed for unpaid debts and the people to whom they owed money, for the period 1832 to 1849. The Gaol (Jail) was located in Hamilton, and Gore District covered the counties of Wentworth, Halton, Wellington, Waterloo, Brant and Oxford in Ontario, Canada (also known as Upper Canada and Canada West). The original register also includes the amount of the debt, the specific dates of committal and discharge, and the names of the judge and attorneys involved.