Library Subscribes to Footnote.com
The Muskogee Public Library recently subscribed to a new online collection of historical records. It did so as it continues providing area residents with online content. Footnote.com is a growing company offering digitized historical records.
Footnote's "Investigative Case Files of the Bureau of Investigation" came up in searching for a Muskogee connection. The Bureau of Investigation pre-dates the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It had responsibilities that mirrored the present day operations of the FBI. Congress established the Bureau of Investigation one hundred years ago this year.
The "Investigative Case Files" cover the years 1908 to 1922. Footnote.com digitized over two million images as a cooperative effort with the National Archives. The archives retain custody of the original records. Viewers may print out records at the library for ten cents a page.
The bureau files are full of references to suspicious characters, prostitutes, stool pigeons, vagrants, burglars and safe crackers, lawyers and peace officers, strikers and rioters. In a file with a connection to Muskogee, the Vinita police took custody of a woman named Lena Jackson for mail theft.
The Vinita jail was almost not good enough to hold their prisoner. After being locked up, she immediately set about removing bricks from the jail wall to affect an escape. The police transferred her to the Muskogee's steel jail after finding the loose bricks.
She was initially indicted on May 7, 1919 under her alias. Then Muskogee police identified her as a drug addict named Peggy Willard. Peggy subsequently escaped from her attorney using a ruse. Another library database of the 1920 census reports her being incarcerated in the Missouri State Penitentiary about seven months later. Peggy's escape from the custody of her lawyer was short lived.
There are over a hundred references to Muskogee in the bureau's case files. Additionally, Footnote's collection of records includes the Dawes enrollment applications and enrollment cards.
Beyond Muskogee is the full panorama of records reaching from the Revolutionary War to the Second World War. Muskogee's airport namesake, Major Jack Davis, appears on a Footnote database because of his failure to return from a dawn patrol over the Sea of Japan.
Footnote.com allows a special feature to its website. A viewer has the ability to tag digital records with additional information. If a reader identifies a relative, they may wish to note how that relative became listed on that record.
In addition to expanding the library's access to online databases, the library purchased two digital microfilm readers. These two readers allow printing of images at higher resolution than previously possible. Golden wedding anniversary photographs, for example, are now sharper when printed or stored electronically.
The library is constantly improving its services to the public. If you have not visited lately, now is a good time to find out how much they offer.
Footnote's "Investigative Case Files of the Bureau of Investigation" came up in searching for a Muskogee connection. The Bureau of Investigation pre-dates the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It had responsibilities that mirrored the present day operations of the FBI. Congress established the Bureau of Investigation one hundred years ago this year.
The "Investigative Case Files" cover the years 1908 to 1922. Footnote.com digitized over two million images as a cooperative effort with the National Archives. The archives retain custody of the original records. Viewers may print out records at the library for ten cents a page.
The bureau files are full of references to suspicious characters, prostitutes, stool pigeons, vagrants, burglars and safe crackers, lawyers and peace officers, strikers and rioters. In a file with a connection to Muskogee, the Vinita police took custody of a woman named Lena Jackson for mail theft.
The Vinita jail was almost not good enough to hold their prisoner. After being locked up, she immediately set about removing bricks from the jail wall to affect an escape. The police transferred her to the Muskogee's steel jail after finding the loose bricks.
She was initially indicted on May 7, 1919 under her alias. Then Muskogee police identified her as a drug addict named Peggy Willard. Peggy subsequently escaped from her attorney using a ruse. Another library database of the 1920 census reports her being incarcerated in the Missouri State Penitentiary about seven months later. Peggy's escape from the custody of her lawyer was short lived.
There are over a hundred references to Muskogee in the bureau's case files. Additionally, Footnote's collection of records includes the Dawes enrollment applications and enrollment cards.
Beyond Muskogee is the full panorama of records reaching from the Revolutionary War to the Second World War. Muskogee's airport namesake, Major Jack Davis, appears on a Footnote database because of his failure to return from a dawn patrol over the Sea of Japan.
Footnote.com allows a special feature to its website. A viewer has the ability to tag digital records with additional information. If a reader identifies a relative, they may wish to note how that relative became listed on that record.
In addition to expanding the library's access to online databases, the library purchased two digital microfilm readers. These two readers allow printing of images at higher resolution than previously possible. Golden wedding anniversary photographs, for example, are now sharper when printed or stored electronically.
The library is constantly improving its services to the public. If you have not visited lately, now is a good time to find out how much they offer.
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FBI reopens Oklahoma City bombing case
Social Security Death Index
Name: Robert G. Millar
SSN: 725-03-6334
Last Residence: 953 (U.S. Consulate), Canada
Born: 19 May 1925
Died: 28 Oct 2006
State (Year) SSN issued: Railroad Board (Issued Through) (Before 1951)
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Harrison Thomas LaTour
LaTour Genealogical Collection
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