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Finding Employee Records
Finding Employee Records
This article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL, and Ann Carter Fleming, CG, CGL in "The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy."
·wiki.rootsweb.com·
Finding Employee Records
Locating Railroad Employee Records for Genealogy
Locating Railroad Employee Records for Genealogy
Grownups and kids alike have had a certain fascination with the railroads, and genealogists have a similar desire to know if any of their ancestors played a role in the development of the American railways. Tracking down employment records from the railroad companies can be a serious challenge.
·genealogytoday.com·
Locating Railroad Employee Records for Genealogy
Finding Places
Finding Places
If you have a place name (for example, the place where an ancestor was born) but you're not sure exactly where in New York - or the U.S., or the world - that place is, one of the resources listed here may help you to pinpoint the location. Brought to you by the New York State Library.
·nysl.nysed.gov·
Finding Places
Guide to Records of the NY Department of Correctional Services
Guide to Records of the NY Department of Correctional Services
This lengthy PDF "describes more than 300 records series comprising approximately 4,000 cubic feet of records. Most of the records described relate to inmates and programs at major correctional facilities and the facilities that preceded them. The records date from 1797 to about 1980, most dating from the 20th century. The majority of records relate to programs at maximum security prisons for male felons, which is the largest segment of the inmate population confined in New York." -New York Corrections Historical Society
·archives.nysed.gov·
Guide to Records of the NY Department of Correctional Services