I WAS SURPRISED TOO! I THOUGHT THEY MIGHT SEND LIST OF HUSES HE WORKED OUT OF, ANY PROMOTIONS/MEDALS,ETC, BUT NOTHING ELSE BUT WHEN APPOINTED AND WHEN RETIRED, OH,YES HIS SALARY. I ALSO GOT A APPROX. AMOUNT OF HIS SALARY FROM ANCESTRY CENSUS OF 1940,WHICH KIND OF FIT, IT SAID $3000. FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR,EQUALS OUT TO THE AMOUNT HE RECEIVED IN '44-'66,$125.00 PER MONTH. HE ALSO REC'D A NAVY PENSION FOR DISABILITY (HERNIA WHILE PREFORMING HIS DUTY ABOARD SHIP)…..I DOUBT SNYONE COULD LIVE HIGH ON HOG BACK IN THOSE DAYS, ANY BETTER THAN NOW……HOWEVER, BACK IN THE '40s MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT YOU MUST BE RICH TO RETIRE…LOL. NEVER MIND HE HAD TO GET A "REAL" JOB JUST TO SUPPORT FAMILY. HE DID TRY TO RE-ENLIST IN NAVY SFTER RETIRING FROM PD, BUT HIS HALTH RECORD TURN HIM DOWN, HE HAD HEART ATTACK JUST BEFORE RETIRING FROM PD + THE HERNIA….. BUT HE DID BECOME A HOUSE DETECTIVE FOR SOME BIG HOTELS BACK THEN, SO HE MUST HAVE LIKED POLICE-WORK. MY SONS, ON THE OTHER HAND ARE BOTH FIRE DEP'T LT'S. ONE HERE IN FL, ONE IN NJ, JUST RETIRED., I WAS FOR 10 YEARS,ON A VOL.FD. MUST BE IN THE BLOOD, ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE "1830's"……AT LEAST ONE PERSON IN EACH GENRERATION SINCE THEN, I HAVE FOUND,SO FAR. 4 On Apr 3, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pat, > > I'm really surprised to hear that. My great-grandfather served in the NYPD > at approximately the same time as your father (beginning in the 1920s; I > can't look up at the moment just when he retired) and the police department > was able to provide me with a substantial amount of information, including > a photograph, records of his promotions and various transfers (even > temporary) within the department, etc. They were definitely keeping records > during that time period! > > When did you request the records? I understand that the NYPD has a database > that is used to access these records for this kind of request - if your > request was more than a few years ago, I wonder if trying again might yield > better results? Maybe the database is a relatively recent innovation > allowing them to fulfill family history requests. (My request was fulfilled > in 2009.) > > I sent my request to > > Chief of Personnel > Staff Services Section > 1 Police Plaza Room 1208 > New York, NY 10038 > > > -Katie > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Pat Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I SENT FOR MY FATHERS ' RECORDS TO A GENTLEMAN AT POLICE PLAZA IN NYC. >> HE HAD BEEN ON THE PD FROM 1922-1942. LAST SERVED IN THE 23RD PRECEINT >> ,NOW ON 102ND ST AND 2ND AVE AND A MUCH LARGER BUILDING THAN WHEN HE WAS >> THERE. THIS AREA BACK THEN WAS CONSIDERED HARLEM, EXTENDING W. TO 110TH >> ST, BACK THEN ,NOW CONSIDERED AS PART OF FROM 110TH & HUDSON RIVER TO PAST >> W. 125TH,FROM WHAT I WAS TOLD. WHEN HE RETIRED THE STREETS FROM MORNING >> SIDE HEIGHTS AND N TO ABOUT 125TH WERE CONSIDERED COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AREA. >> THE ONLY RECORDS THEY HAD OF MY FATHER WAS DATE HE WAS SWORN IN AND DATE >> HE RETIRED, AND NOTICE OF HIS DEATH IN 1966. THEY SAID THERE WERE NO >> RECORDS KEPT AT THAT TIME OF THAT PERIOD. THEE IS PROBABLY MUCH MORE ON >> RECORDS OF TODAYS POLICE, WHAT WITH ALL THE COMPUTERS IN EACH STATION AND >> FORMS TO BE FILLED OUT. >> I DO KNOW FROM FAMILY STORIES/LORE, HE WAS A PLAINCLOTHES DETECTIVE DURING >> PROBITION WHEN HE WAS ASSIGNED AT ANOTHER STATION AT AT ONE TIME WORKED AT >> A STATION ON KINGS-BRIDGE RD. IN BRONX. >> GOOD LUCK IN YOUR SEARCH. >> ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== >> Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, >> check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: >> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message