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Coming up: November-December 2024

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist tries to get a post out right around the first of each month with upcoming events. But The Legal Genealogist was still late this month -- and owes thanks to both the Bucks County Genealogical Society and the Family History...

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Coming up: October-November 2024

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist usually tries, hard, to get a post out right around the first of each month with upcoming events. This month The Legal Genealogist is very late with this post. I do however have a really good excuse. I finally got to take...

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Year 23… never forget…

23 years ago today. It has been 23 years. That's 276 months. 8,401 days. 201,624 hours. 12,097,440 minutes. 725,846,400 seconds. Enough for a lifetime of memories. Memories that some of us can never forget. Memories that others never got the chance to make. Memories...

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Internet Archive loses copyright appeal

Federal court says digital copying is not fair use In a case testing the outer limits of digitization of copyrighted works, a federal appeals in New York has affirmed a trial judge's ruling that Internet Archive infringed the copyright of four publishing houses when...

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And so it began…

250 years ago today They met in Philadelphia, at Carpenters' Hall, on a hot September day. Fifty-six men from as far north as New Hampshire and as far south as South Carolina. Lawyers. Farmers. Millers. Merchants. And revolutionaries. Perhaps not at first. Not on that...

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A genealogist with a law degree, The Legal Genealogist Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL , is a lecturer, educator and writer. [More]

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