Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Monday, April 29, 2013

Cleaning out my emails finds famous criminals

I was cleaning out my emails and found a link to the FBI website of famous cases and criminals. If you write mystery or thrillers or anything else where you need to research crimes, this site would be interesting to you:


John Dillinger. Al Capone. The KKK. The Unabomber. John Gotti. Bonnie and Clyde.

The FBI has investigated them all… and many more spies, terrorists, and criminals besides. Listed below, grouped according to our top investigative priorities and related categories, are many of our famous and most significant cases over the past century.

The monographs and write-ups below have been made available for your use. You may download them for any non-commercial use without obtaining permission from the FBI. If you don’t see a case listed here, try our search engine or history story index.

Have fun!

Monday, January 28, 2013

Very cool site for writers who need to research past disasters

This site popped up on Pinterest the other day: GenDisasters
Here is the heading paragraph:
 
Were your ancestors in a tornado?  Was grandpa killed working on the railroad?  Did your grandmother talk about the great flood?  Then, GenDisasters is for you.  While we hope that your ancestors never endured the hardships and sufferings from fires, explosions, floods, mine accidents and other disasters, we're here to help you find the ancestors that did.  From fires to floods, train wrecks to tornadoes, we're chronicling every wreck, every accident, every drowning, every storm - every event that touched our ancestors lives.

You can check by state or year or disaster. It's very cool!
(How many times can a blogger write disaster in a post about disaster? It's a disaster!)

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