To the hosts and more of 2024

Wait just a minute here.

Hold on.

It isn’t really already…?

How can it be…?

Seriously…?

Can it really be the last weekend of 2024?

Yep. Here we are again, coming up fast on 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 2024 to each and every single one of my 2024 hosts:

• Legacy Family Tree webinars, and hosts Geoff Rasmussen and Marian Pierre Louis who always make things so easy
• Heritage Eagle Bend Genealogy Club
• Centre County (PA) Genealogical Society
• Central Virginia Genealogical Association
• Sachem Public Library
• Bristol Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists
• Hudson County (NJ) Genealogical & Historical Society
• Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries
• Denton Public Library
• Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society
• The Villages Genealogical Society
• RootsTech 2024
• Boulder Genealogical Society
• Spartanburg County Public Libraries
• Thomas Balch Library
• Eastern Washington Genealogical Society
• Austin Colony Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution<
• Tennessee State Library & Archives
• Essex Society of Genealogists
• Virginia Genealogical Society
• Central Jersey Genealogical Club
• National Genealogical Society
• Family History Academy
• Florida Genealogical Society-Tampa
• Grand Strand Genealogical Society
• Appleton Public Library
• Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society
• Athens-Clarke County Library
• Waupaca Area Genealogical Society
• San Diego Genealogical Society
• Genealogical Society of New Jersey
• Ford’s Colony Genealogy Club
• Georgia Genealogical Society
• Ventura County Genealogical Society
• Greater Cleveland Genealogical Society
• Minnesota Genealogical Society
• Bucks County Genealogical Society
• Family History Society of Arizona (FHSA)
• Northern Waters Genealogical Society
• Boston Public Library
• Clallam County Genealogical Society
• Pikes Peak Genealogical Society
• Texas State Genealogical Society
• Colonial Special Interest Group, Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois
• APG Writers SIG
• Fairfax Genealogical Society
• Genealogical Society of Sarasota

And a huge thank-you also goes to the institutes where I was privileged to teach in 2024, and to the students I was privileged to teach and to learn from. At the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), I served as co-coordinator of the “Family History Law Library” course with Rick Sayre. At the virtual session of the GRIP Genealogy Institute, I served as coordinator of the “Women & Children First” course, and at the in-person session, I coordinated the course on “Putting those Records to Work.” 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 special thanks. To my friend and genealogical colleague Ursula Krause, my very special thanks for being willing to put up with me and my goofy family in-person in Germany.

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 safe, happy, healthy 2025.

Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “The Official TLG 2024 Thank You List,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 29 Dec 2024).