New York State Prison Records

Obtaining New York State prison records has never been so easy, Steven P. Morse of San Francisco has created an extemely powerful search engine to find your blacksheep ancestors.

The data the search engine gathers is from the New York State Department of Correctional Services website.

Why wouldn't you just get the information off of the Department of Corrections website then you ask? Well Steven's site provides the resources to cut down your search to a fraction of the time.

If you find his site useful in any way, you may want to check out his other sites and search enginges he has developed.

Parkhurst Prison, England

Here's another great English prison for people to look and see if they had any blacksheep ancestors at.

I've broken down Parkhurst Prison in Hampshire county, England, into two alphabetized sections for ease of finding the prisoner you may be looking for.

The index is for the year 1901. You can view it at the following links:

Parkhurst Prison, Surnames A-K

Parkhurst Prison, Surnames L-Z

Dartmoor Convict Prison, England

For people from the UK or with ancestors from the UK, you may want to check out the following database if you think you may have had an ancestor who spent any time in prison in Devon county England.

The Dartmoor Convict Prison housed approximately 900 thieves, murderers and scoundrels in 1871. Here are the links for the list of prisoners in the prison.

Dartmoor Prison, Surnames A-K

Dartmoor Prison, Surnames L-Z

Happy Hunting!

British Prison Records

There is a great new index of prisoners for Brixton Convict Prison in London Enlgland available at Blacksheep Ancestors. Its an index of prisoners there for the year 1871. You can view it at Brixton Prison, Surnames A-K and Brixton Prison, Surnames L-Z

Convicts Shipped to Australia

If you are interested in finding possible ancestors that were shipped to Australia from England between 1787-1868 you may want to start by checking out the UK National Archives site. There is lots of information there for getting you well on your way to finding your elusive blacksheep ancestors!

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