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Any ideas about how to track down records of criminal convictions in the 1920s? There is 'family story' - no more than that - that a great uncle of mine was convicted of something - don't know what, but nothing serious enough to have made the national news or gone to the Old Bailey - and served a short prison sentence in 1926. I'm trying to verify it but not sure where to start. I thought of the local newspapers but I'm not certain where he was living at the time - possibly north London, Huntingdon or Falmouth. Is there somewhere that I could check which local newspapers covered a particular geographical area in 1926?

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You could try the British Library Newspaper Collection website at http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html and search the catalogue by place name.

The main local newspaper for Falmouth was and is the Falmouth Packet: http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/ or for wider coverage, the West Briton. There is a comprehensive archive of Cornish newspapers on microfilm at the Cornish Studies Library in Redruth (http://www.chycor.co.uk/general/red-lib/index.htm), if you are ever down that way.