NY State employee arrested for stealing historical documents

A New York State employee has been charged with stealing documents and selling them on E-Bay. This person, although he has pleaded innocent, has apparently admitted to stealing documents since 2002 and they recovered about 400 items. That's a long time and a lot of items before getting caught!

Boy, it seems like there have been a lot of these stories in the past year. I understand that people need money and tempations are hard to resist, but it's such a shame. Has this always gone and we're just suddenly catching people or were people "in the old days" more moral? Maybe the places that hold these documents should wake up and update their security policies for their employees. Most already have strict policies in place for visitors who want to look at the records.

Full article here on Reuters.

Have you searched on the new FamilySearch Labs site?

I wrote a bit back about volunteering to index records for FamilySearch. See that post here.

Did you know that some of the efforts by all these volunteers are already available? Best of all, they're totally FREE and include not only the index, but scans of the original records too!

The special site is at http://labs.familysearch.org. You do need to register for an account in order to access the site, but that is a small requirement.

You should give it a try today! If you do find this project worthwhile, it's still not too late to help. There are many projects currently being indexed. Please consider volunteering.