How to Catch a Criminal: Finding Records for Your Rogue Relatives Downunder
Kristy Love, PhD
Content
Welcome
2m 1s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 15s
Introduction
15m 20s
Newspaper Reports
11m 51s
Police Gazettes
3m 29s
Inquests and Coronial Records
3m 0s
Criminal Court Records
3m 20s
Description Books
16m 26s
Prison Registers
2m 10s
Additional Records
7m 51s
Announcements / prizes
8m 4s
About this webinar
Australia has a wealth of publicly available records for people who have interacted with the criminal justice system, be they criminals, suspects, victims of crime, witnesses in criminal cases, and law enforcement officials, but do you know how to find these records? This talk will do a deep dive into the available record sets, including mug shots, prison registers, criminal court records, inquests and coronial records, and Police Gazettes, among others.
About the speaker
Kristy Love (formerly Davidson), Ph.D., is a professional family historian and founder of Family History Agency in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. In her former working life, she gained several decades of...
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Comments (24)
I’d like to thank Kristy for this helpful and informative webinar. The illustrative screenshots were excellent. To provide so many links in the syllabus was also very generous. It’s given me several useful tips and strategies to widen my own research.
A useful review of records relating to those convicted of crimes in Australia with good case studies.
Very informative with many new areas to investigate
Incredibly informative webinar! It definitely makes me wish there had been time to delve more deeply into some of what you mentioned. Thank you so much!
Informative, enjoyable and well paced
Interesting. Loved the pictures.
Fantastic webinar giving me a number of new avenues to look for my early down under paternal relatives.
excellent information. thank you