> Family lore has it that prior to WWI my grandfather did a short > stint in=A0 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=40yahoo.com> It would depend upon where he committed the theft and if it was prosecuted in a federal or other court.=A0 I'm no expert in this but did attempt to find some records in Oklahoma.=A0 They had a fire and could not locate my records, but that search taught me a couple of things.=A0 One was that I got help from an email=A0group that focused on prisons in Oklahoma.=A0 Perhaps you can search in the relevant state for such a group who already know the resources for that state.=A0 Another was that the place of imprisonment did not always make sense based on the crime.=A0 It looks like my ancestor may have committed a local crime but served in the state facility for some reason.=A0 Also, I found my guy was in prison because he was listed there in a 1910 Census.=A0 No one in the family knew he'd been in jail=21=21=A0 They did = not know he was ever in Oklahoma either. =A0=A0=A0 Hope this helps=21=21=A0 Sharon SHARON Zingery <szingery=40sbcglobal.net>