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New public domain images!

The Public Domain Image Archive launches It's always a good day when The Legal Genealogist comes across a new source of public domain images. These are, after all, by definition, images that are free for us to use, without restriction and without concern of any kind...

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Milestones 2025

Looking back to 2024, forward to 2025 There's no doubt about it. The very best part of genealogy is the stories. Stories in The Legal Genealogist’s family take us back a long way in America on the maternal side and in Germany on the paternal side. Stories that begin,...

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Coming up: January-February 2025

Upcoming presentations And we're off! Yes, off to a fast start to this new year here at The Legal Genealogist -- ramping up for 2025. As always, there's fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and you're invited to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip. So......

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Rules of my road: 2025

Not legal advice! So many reader questions come in that are beyond what The Legal Genealogist can answer in this blog, because they're asking for legal advice. Um... that's not what this blog is all about. Not what this blog can do. It's necessary, or at least...

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Welcome to 1929!

The copyright clock keeps ticking This is the second day of January and, for many Americans, the first work day of 2025. For The Legal Genealogist, it's the second day of 1929. No, that's not a typo. I really do mean 1929. The year that books like Ernest Hemingway's A...

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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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