Prison records--pictures and all

Ancestry.com is posting more and more prison records. They can be very useful for working on your family tree, but are also entertaining in their own right. Just take a relatively unusual name on your tree and enter it--see what the relatives or distant cousins might have been up to. The search is easy and the records very interesting--sometimes with pictures.

Records recently available are:

New York, Sing Sing Prison Admission Registers, 1865-1939

California, Prison and Correctional Records, 1851-1950