Upcoming presentations
Hard to believe January 2024 is already in the bag and February is here! The Legal Genealogist has already had a busy year and there’s more — much more — coming up fast.
And, as always, I want to invite you to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip.
Here’s an overview of what’s coming up in February, and we’ll go ahead and take a peek at March — and yep, it’s going to be really busy not even including institute classes I’m teaching where registration has already closed…
February 2024
• Saturday, 10 February, 11 a.m. EST: The Hudson County (NJ) Genealogical & Historical Society is hosting the virtual presentation After the Courthouse Burns: Rekindling Family History through DNA. Note that this is a members only event.
• Saturday, 17 February, 10:30 a.m. CST (11:30 EST): The Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries will host the virtual presentation The Fair Court – Records of Chancery Courts. For more information, see the event page.
• Saturday, 17 February, 3 p.m. CST (4 p.m. EST): The Denton (TX) Public Library is hosting the virtual presentation Doing Time–Prison Records as Genealogical Resources. Get more information at the library’s event page.
• Tuesday, 20 February, 6:30 p.m. PST (9:30 EST): The Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society is hosting the virtual presentation From 1619 to Juneteenth — Slavery and the Law Before the Civil War. To register and for more information, see the event page.
• Wednesday, 28 February, 6:30 p.m. PST (9:30 EST): The Villages Genealogical Society is hosting its 24th Annual Family History Seminar Finding Your Women Ancestors in hybrid form (in person for locals and via Zoom for members and the public). I’ll be presenting “Don’t Forget the Ladies” – A Genealogist’s Guide to Women and the Law; Dower and Dowry: Women, Property & Legal Records; No Vitals? No Problem! Building a Family for Isabella through Circumstantial Evidence; and DNA and the Hidden Half of the Family. For more details, see the event page.
29 February through 2 March: RootsTech 2024, the combination in-person and virtual conference, will take place in Salt Lake City and around the world. I’ll be there in person, presenting four sessions: on 1 March at 9:30 a.m. MT, From Eula to John: A Case Study in DNA, Land and More, and at 4:30 p.m. MT, Deemed a Runaway – Black Laws of the North; then on 2 March, at 9:30 a.m., From Grey to Blue: Galvanized Yankees Taming the West, and at 1:30 p.m. MT, Unexpected Treasures: Family History in the American State Papers.
March 2024
• Tuesday, 5 March, 7 p.m. MST (9 p.m. EST): The Boulder Genealogical Society is hosting the virtual presentation From Blackstone to the Statutes At Large – How Knowing the Law Makes Us Better Genealogists. For more information and to register, see the event page.
• Friday and Saturday, 8-9 March: The Spartanburg County Public Libraries is hosting its in-person Genealogy Workshop at the Headquarters Library in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Friday evening at 7 p.m., I’ll be presenting Breaker Boys and Spinner Girls: Child Labor Laws and their Records, and on Saturday I’ll be presenting Dowered or Bound Out: Records of Widows and Orphans at 10 a.m. and Property Rights and Wrongs: African-Americans at the Courthouse at 1:45 p.m. I’m honored to be sharing the podium with Whitney Day, who’ll be presenting on the new International African American Museum in Charleston at 11:15 a.m. For more information and to sign up for this free event, see the calendar page.
• Wednesday, 20 March, 1-4 p.m. EST: The Friends of the Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg, Virginia, will host the 2024 Spring Genealogical Seminar – Cracking the Code: Legal and Genetic Genealogy. I’ll be presenting After the Courthouse Burns: Rekindling Family History through DNA and DNA and the Golden Rule: The Law and Ethics of Genetic Genealogy. For more information and to register, see the event page.
Come on out and join us, if you can, for one or more of these events and note, in some cases, that registration will be free or at a reduced cost to members of the host society — and some are limited to members only… There are some reaaaaaaally good reasons for joining genealogical societies… Just sayin’…
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Coming up: February-March 2024,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 5 February 2024).
