Discovered a relative was arrested on assault charges in 1917. The court records I could find online only indicated the arrest. The verdict could not be located. I need to see if there are more records in the jurisdiction where the arrest took place. I decided to perform a newspaper search and did find where he paid a rather steep fine–at least by 1918 standards–for the crime. Whenever I discover someone has been arrested, I always search newspapers to see what can be found. I did not perform a manual search for the week he was arrested, which I need to do. That said, I still need to manually search the court records to see what I overlooked. I also need to manually search the newspapers as well. […]
We’re recorded these three presentations and uploaded the recordings. These are now available for purchase and immediate download. We’ve gotten good feedback, but the full-text searching presentation was especially popular. One person got so distracted with our search ideas that they were searching instead of listening and others have said they now feel better able to get even more out of it than before. Details are at https://conta.cc/3BO5GsG
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