To the hosts and more of 2023
Wait just a minute here.
Hold on.
It isn’t really already…?
How can it be…?
Seriously…?
Can it really be the next to the last day of 2023?
Yep. Here we are again, at the end of another busy year, and a time to step up and acknowledge all the 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 goes out here at the end of 2023 to each and every single one of my 2023 hosts:
• Legacy Family Tree webinars, and hosts Geoff Rasmussen and Marian Pierre Louis who always make things so easy
• Bucks County (PA) Genealogical Society
• San Diego Genealogical Society
• Connetquot (NY) Public Library
• Clarke-Oconee (GA) Genealogical Society
• Rauh Jewish Archives of the Heinz History Center and Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh
• Westchester County (NY) Genealogical Society
• Appleton (WI) Public Library
• Elmhurst (IL) Public Library
• New Jersey Family History Institute
• RootsTech 2023
• Houston Genealogical Forum
• Fairfax (VA) Genealogical Society
• Boston Public Library
• North Carolina Genealogical Society
• Morris Area (NJ) Genealogy Society (MAGS)
• Olympia (WA) Genealogical Society
• Dallas Genealogical Society
• Colorado Genealogical Society
• Sweetgrass (Texas) Genealogy Club
• St. Louis Genealogical Society
• Butler County Chapter of OGS
• Clallam County (Washington) Genealogical Society
• American-Canadian Genealogical Society
• Board for Certification of Genealogists
• the Family History Academy
• Lycoming County (PA) Genealogical Society
• Montgomery County (MD) Genealogical Society
• National Genealogical Society
• Genealogy Society of Queensland
• Bay Area (Texas) Genealogical Society
• McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society
• Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
• Oklahoma Genealogical Society
• Sachem (NY) Public Library
• Centre County (PA) Genealogical Society
• Indian River (FL) Genealogical Society
• Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy
• St. Cloud Area Genealogists
• Ford’s Colony (VA) Genealogy Club
• East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference
• Connecticut Society of Genealogists
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
• Chester County History Center
• New Jersey State Library
• Allen County Public Library
• Davis (California) Genealogy Club
• Association of Professional Genealogists
• Pinellas Genealogical Society
• Rogue Valley Genealogical Society
• Augusta Genealogical Society
• Slatten Lecture, Friends of the Virginia State Archives
• Anne Arundel Genealogical Society and Howard County Genealogical Society
• Seattle Genealogical Society
• Ventura County Genealogical Society
• Pikes Peak Genealogical Society
And a huge thank-you also goes to the institutes where I was privileged to teach in 2023, and to the students I was privileged to teach and to learn from. At the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), I served as coordinator of the “Corpus Juris” course. At the Texas Institute of Genealogical Research (TIGR), I served as coordinator of the “Legally Texas: Advanced Legal Research in the Lone Star State” course. At the in-person session of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP), I served as coordinator of the “Putting Those Records to Work” course. At the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), I served as coordinator of the “Advanced Methodology & Evidence Analysis” course. And thanks to the other coordinators who let me come play in their classes at these institutes and at the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records and the Midwest African American Genealogy Institute.
This has been a busy 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.
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 another 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 2024.
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “The Official TLG 2023 Thank You List,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 30 Dec 2023).
