Good morning from Brooklyn New York, Family lore has it that prior to WWI my grandfather did a short stint in prison. He was working for the Post Office and got caught stealing stamps. Would anyoine have any idea where I might be able to locate these records? TIA, Emmy emmydbd <emmydbd@yahoo.com>

> Good morning from Brooklyn New York, > > Family lore has it that prior to WWI my grandfather did a short > stint in prison. > > He was working for the Post Office and got caught stealing stamps. > > Would anyoine have any idea where I might be able to locate these > records? > > Emmy emmydbd <emmydbd@yahoo.com> By any chance, was his name James J. Sheridan? I looked around at the NY Times historical newspaper database by proquest, and found a small article about this Sheridan man on September 3 1915 I was thinking if you could find an article in a newspaper, you could find the name of the prison he was sent to, or at least narrow down the time frame. I'll send that article to you just in case... Check with your local library to see if they have access to these historical newspapers. Also, if he was from Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Library is digitizing the Brooklyn Eagle, but it is only on line up to 1902. If you visit the library, you can probably look at later papers on microfilm Lisa llepore@comcast.net