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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...