The increasing number of digitised genealogical records becoming available online can reveal information on our ancestors' lives that we may never have dreamed of finding.
Recently, our searchers were investigating a criminal record from the 1870s, and found with it a list of misdemeanors conducted whilst the prisoner was incarcerated. Most fascinatingly, the prisoner was accused of receiving tallow, presumably a black market product in prison, whilst in a singing class. The punishment? To leave the singing class.
