Today’s the day!
Registration to close for GRIP Virtual Dozens and dozens of genealogists are getting ready to be happy campers. In this year's first virtual summer-camp-for-genealogists, that is. The virtual week of the GRIP Genealogy Institute opens in just 10 days -- it runs June...
Coming up: June-July 2024
Upcoming presentations As June gets off to a start, it marks as always 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...
Memorial Day 2024
Remembering the fallen 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 federal holiday calendar in 1888 as Decoration...
Coming up: May-June 2024
Upcoming presentations The merry month of May has arrived and, with it, the National Genealogical Society conference and about nine kazillion sets of syllabus materials for the upcoming summer institute season. Yea, it's a busy time for The Legal Genealogist and, as...
A Law Day invitation
A deep dive into the way the law impacts records May 1. Law Day in the United States. And a day when The Legal Genealogist is hard at work, putting together the lesson plan for a special two-part offering that just might be what you need. It'll start in just three...
The passing of time
Marking the mortal milestones It happened for the first time on the 12th of January 2005. On that day, The Legal Genealogist had lived more days, more months, more years than an immediate forebear. My father's father -- the German grandfather I had never met -- died...
Coming up: April-May 2024
Upcoming presentations Spring has sprung -- or is giving it a good shot around most of the United States -- clearing the way for one of the first in-person appearances of 2024, and a whole lot of virtual events as well. Yeah, there's a lot coming up fast on The Legal...
The spoken word
... not a legal transfer It's a question that comes up a lot in the emails to The Legal Genealogist. This time, it came from a genealogical society that wants to honor a long-time volunteer. "This volunteer has written many columns for our newsletter over the years,"...
A word without limits
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. “You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.” It's a wonderful sentence, one that made The Legal Genealogist giggle in the movie...
IGHR 2024 registration tomorrow!
You snooze, you lose Tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow. Saturday, March 9th. The Day not to sleep in if you’re hoping to get in on an unparalleled opportunity for genealogical education and fun — the last of what The Legal Genealogist calls summer camps for genealogists...
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