To the hosts and more of 2022

It’s hard to know just how to feel as this crazy crazy year of 2022 draws finally to a close.

On one hand, The Legal Genealogist can’t help but glance at the calendar with the usual reaction: It isn’t really already…?

How can it be…?

Seriously…?

Can it really be the next to the last day of 2022?

On the other hand, it seems like it’s been literally forever that this year has dragged on, and so many times it’s felt like it was never really going to end. The pandemic isn’t really over. Even if travel wasn’t still somewhat perilous, the travel woes keep getting worse. Add to that a new house (meaning new everything: doctor, dentist, eye doctor, veterinarian, lawyer, Indian chief…) and… sigh… I really am glad this year is coming to an end.

Year end thanks, 2022

But even with all we’ve dealt and fought over and cried about, there are still so many people who made a difference this year. Who helped keep me afloat. Who kept my spirits up. Who taught me. Who challenged me. Who gave me a chance to be heard. Who were there.

So the traditional year-end thanks is even more heartfelt than otherwise here at the end of 2022, and goes out first to each and every single one of my 2022 hosts:

And a huge thank-you also goes to the institutes where I was privileged to teach in 2022, and to the students I was privileged to teach and to learn from. At the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), I served as coordinator of the “Advanced Methodology & Evidence Analysis” course. At one session of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP), Rick Sayre and I co-coordinated “Law School for Genealogists” and in the other I coordinated “Women and Children First! Research Methods for the Hidden Members of the Family.” And thanks to the other coordinators who let me come play in their classes at these institutes and at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, Genealogical Institute on Federal Records, and the Midwest African American Genealogy Institute.

This has been a tough year. To all of you who’ve made it survivable, my thanks. To all of you who kept me SAFE this year — and you know who you are — my very special thanks.

A very very special thanks goes out to my friend, colleague and comrade in mischief, Helen Smith of Australia, my fellow traveler through the Northern Territory this year, who reminded me that slowing down and smelling the flowers (and watching the birds and petting the koalas) is a really good idea in a really frenetic time…

And to you, the readers of this blog… what can I say? You’ve challenged me, taught me, laughed with me, cried with me. And here, at year’s end, we can finally say we made it through this crazy year.

The bottom line, as always, is that any year with good friends — old and new — is a good year.

Onward… to what we all can hope will be a better, safer, happier, healthier, maybe even a calmer 2023.

Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “The Official TLG 2022 Thank You List,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 30 Dec 2022).

5 Comments

Diana Ritchie on December 30, 2022 at 9:54 am

Thank YOU for all the time you take to share your knowledge. Your generosity in taking time to answer questions and to explain the hard things (well law is hard for some of us!!) is much appreciated. Your sharing makes us all better genealogists!!
True Lewis on December 30, 2022 at 9:58 am

Thank you Judy for a wonderful genealogical journey in 2022! Onward to 2023. Happy New Year!
Diana on December 30, 2022 at 10:20 am

Thank you Judy for your wonderful presentations and the blog. I learned that people who wanted to change their names back in 1832, needed to petition the state legislature and I was able to get a copy of the petition. Not as helpful as I hoped, but I was able to pass it on to another researcher. Thanks!
Nancy on December 30, 2022 at 10:32 am

Thank You Judy for alerting us all to the legal challenges found in posting our genealogy “finds”. I, for one, had never considered that I could not share some of my finds until I was certain it was legal – copyrights! You have taught me a lot. Now, I am more careful, Thanks to you. Have a safe and healthy and prosperous 2023.
Cathy Bland on December 30, 2022 at 12:33 pm

Judy…. It is all of us who ‘thank you’! You have done so much for all of us that there is no way that we can tell you how much we love and appreciate you. BTW, come in back to Mississippi anytime. I have a spare bedroom ready any time!

The Official TLG 2022 Thank You List

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