The Police Depts in every town/city in USA have records depts and are always willing to help with requests for information. Just be sure to ascertain beforehand who it is in the dept. that you will address your written request for info; be sure to include as much information as you can about the person; be sure to ask for date of hire, date of discharge and type of discharge. Be sure to ask for any info that they can give re: "incidents" in the policeman's record---if there are incidents that were disciplined or honored, you should go to the local newspaper's archives and search for reports of such incidents. Who knows? Your great-grandpa might be written up in the local paper for saving a life, or solving a crime! -----Original Message----- From: jane logan <saltbox@webtv.net> To: DONOVAN-L@rootsweb.com <DONOVAN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, August 26, 2001 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [DONOVAN-L] Donovan policeman in Rhode Island To the person writing re: ucle Cornelius Donovan who was a policeman - have you by any chance contacted the police department in Pawtuckett to see if they can be of any help? I was fortunate to be able to contact the police dep't. in Louisville, KY and get acquainted with the historian for the dep't . He sent me info that I needed and even some I wasn't aware of! Give it a try - may help! jane ==== DONOVAN Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from DONOVAN, send an e-mail message to: DONOVAN-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) DONOVAN-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode) Include only the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the body of the message. (Please turn off signature files when sending this command)