July 4, 2025
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the...
Coming up: July-August 2025
Upcoming presentations Rabbit rabbit rabbit! Believe it or not, it's July already yet! We're in the midst of the summer institute season, having finished GRIP’s virtual session and looking towards MAAGI’s virtual courses, then GRIP’s in-person session, then IGHR's...
Juneteenth 2025
A cause for celebration It's only been a federal holiday for four years. But it isn't new... not at all. It all started back 160 years ago today, on the 19th of June 1865. Juneteenth. That's the day on which, it's believed, the very last persons held in bondage in...
Also in July…
About that calendar of upcoming events... The Legal Genealogist really can read a calendar. Really. And in reading a calendar really does understand that something that ends in August can still begin in July and should be included in July events. Sigh... So let's try...
Coming up: June-July 2025
Upcoming presentations It's June already! That means we're here at the start of the summer institute season. GRIP’s virtual session, then MAAGI’s hybrid courses, then GRIP’s in-person session, then… Not to mention the individual talks for societies and libraries and…...
Memorial Day 2025
Once again remembering the fallen and those who remembered them It is Memorial Day here in the United States–the official holiday and the end of the three-day weekend during which we honor those who gave all for the cause of American freedom. It was added to the...
Enough already yet!
Hands off the libraries, archives and museums! The words were written by a Lutheran pastor years before The Legal Genealogist was even born: First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And...
Coming up: May-June 2025
Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist has been slacking. Well, if you consider traveling overseas and prepping roughly a kazillion lecture handouts slacking at least... In any event, it's the first of another month, there's stuff to do, and it's already...
Coming up: March-April 2025
Upcoming presentations Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Well, that's what The Legal Genealogist is told we need to say on the first day of the month, right? And here it is, the first of March already. Which means it's time to take stock of the fun stuff coming up on the...
About this getting older bit…
Seventy years ago today The Legal Genealogist is simply astonished by this photograph. Oh, it's a truly sweet image, no doubt about that. I mean, what's not to like about an incredibly smug older sister getting to hold her newborn brother for the very first time ever?...
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