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I know that a lot of Americans are of British descent; and that many enjoy the hobby of genealogical research.
A major new resource has just gone online, the records from Britain's Central Criminal Court, known as the "Old Bailey":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bailey
"Unseen files from some of the most sensational criminal trials in history are to be made available to the public today.
Transcripts from Old Bailey cases, including Oscar Wilde's trial for gross indecency and the infamous case of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, who killed his wife, form part of 110,000 pages of records made available online, free of charge. The London court's records include details of more than 210,000 criminal trials from 1674 to 1913.
Prof Robert Shoemaker, the co-director of the project to collate the records, said: "People from all over the world can visit the site for free and get a valuable insight into a diverse range of crimes, from pickpocketing and robbery to abduction and murder.
"These crimes were committed by Irish terrorists, train robbers and suffragettes, as well as by ordinary people."
The website, the largest single source of searchable historical information about everyday British lives ever published, will also be used by ancestral researchers.
It allows people to search under a person's name, offence committed and punishment given."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/28/nbailey128.xml
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
maximus otter
A major new resource has just gone online, the records from Britain's Central Criminal Court, known as the "Old Bailey":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bailey
"Unseen files from some of the most sensational criminal trials in history are to be made available to the public today.
Transcripts from Old Bailey cases, including Oscar Wilde's trial for gross indecency and the infamous case of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, who killed his wife, form part of 110,000 pages of records made available online, free of charge. The London court's records include details of more than 210,000 criminal trials from 1674 to 1913.
Prof Robert Shoemaker, the co-director of the project to collate the records, said: "People from all over the world can visit the site for free and get a valuable insight into a diverse range of crimes, from pickpocketing and robbery to abduction and murder.
"These crimes were committed by Irish terrorists, train robbers and suffragettes, as well as by ordinary people."
The website, the largest single source of searchable historical information about everyday British lives ever published, will also be used by ancestral researchers.
It allows people to search under a person's name, offence committed and punishment given."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/28/nbailey128.xml
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
maximus otter
