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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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The order of things…

A correction Sigh... even proofreading isn't always enough. The words may be right, but the order has to be right too. So let's try one more time for these upcoming events in October: • CORRECTION: Friday, 18 October, 9:50 a.m. EDT: The Virginia Genealogical Society...

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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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