Category: Shaw History

DC Law & Order: Cops and Robbers

I’m going to highlight something of interest to me. The National Archives will host a virtual Genealogy Fair with a variety of videos with a live Q&A. Something that may be of interest is M Marie Maxwell’s DC Law & Order: Cops and Robbers or how to look up your DC criminal relatives from the past. That last part is not official. This should be scheduled sometime in early June.

I’ve used some things from what is planned for the geni fair on this blog. The post for Thomas Lawler and James Boswell use a National Archives series, Personnel Case Files, ca. 1861–1950.

James T. Allen of Blagden Alley 1889

Old photo of a sullen man
James T. Allen, 1889. Painter Blagden Alley

This man was arrested for larceny. According to the info on the other side of this card he was a painter. Looking in the city directory, a James T. Allen who was a painter who lived in Blagden Alley. The card also said he had brown hair and light blue eyes, and that he was a very light mulatto. Sure. Genes are funny things.

It also says he was born in Massachusetts. I can’t find other James T. Allens born in MA around the 1890s in DC. Plenty of James and James T Allens in DC, just not any from Massachusetts.