Upcoming presentations

And we’re off!

Yes, off to a fast start to this new year here at The Legal Genealogist — ramping up for 2025.

As always, there’s fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and you’re invited to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip.

So… what’s coming up next?

January 2025

• Saturday, 11 January, 11 a.m. EST: The Hudson County (NJ) Genealogical & Historical Society is hosting the virtual presentation Landing the Fourths: Proving a Case with Court, Land and DNA Evidence. For more information about this Members-Only event, see the Upcoming Society Events page.

• Sunday, 12 January, 1:15 p.m. PST / 4:15 p.m. EST: The Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society is hosting the virtual presentation No Vitals? No Problem! Building a Family through Circumstantial Evidence (Who in the World Was Paul Knop?). For more information and links to register, see the Upcoming Events page.

• Saturday, 18 January, 11 a.m. CST / noon EST: The Clayton Library-Family History Research Center of the Houston Public Library is hosting the virtual presentation When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Records. For more information and to register, see the Library’s Events page.

• Saturday, 25 January, starting at 10 a.m. EST: The Manatee (FL) Genealogical Society is hosting its 2025 Virtual Seminar with nationally known speakers shining a light on Finding Your Elusive Ancestors. My own presentation, Landing the Fourths: Proving a Case with Court, Land, and DNA Evidence, at 11:45 a.m. ET, is just one of the choices for the day. For more information and to register, check out the links on the Society’s Home Page.

• Sunday, 26 January, 1 p.m. EST: The Association of Professional Genealogists is hosting — and I’ll be moderating — a virtual panel discussion on The Impact of EU Privacy Laws on Genealogical Research. For more information on this Members-Only event, see the APG event page.

February 2025

• Saturday, 1 February, 11 a.m. CST / noon EST: The Dallas Genealogical Society is hosting the virtual presentation NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives. For more information, see the DGS General Meeting page.

• Tuesday, 4 February, 7 p.m. EST: The Morris Area Genealogy Society in New Jersey is hosting the virtual presentation No Vitals? No Problem! Bringing Josias Home. For more information, see the society’s Meeting Schedule page.

• Saturday, 15 February, starting at 9 a.m. CST / 10 a.m. EST: The Wisconsin Historical Society is hosting an all-day virtual workshop, The Hidden Half of the Family: Finding Women and Children in Legal Records. The four presentations for the day are: Putting Those Records to Work; From Sealed Records to Open Histories: Adoption Laws and Genealogy; Dower and Dowry: Women, Property, & Legal Records; and DNA and the Hidden Half of the Family. For more information and to register, see the Events page.

• Saturday, 22 February, 9 a.m. EST: The Pinellas Genealogy Society in Florida is hosting its all-day annual seminar in hybrid format (in-person and via Zoom) with four presentations: NARA MythBusters: Your Family IS in the Archives; Putting Those Records to Work; Property Rights and Wrongs – African Americans at the Courthouse; and “Don’t Forget the Ladies” – A Genealogist’s Guide to Women and the Law. Additional breakout speakers are Lori Coffey with Technology Tips for Genealogy and Susan Luce and Denise Manning with Follow the Yellow Brick Road Through the Forest of Documentary Research and DNA. For more information, see the PGS Seminar 2025 Information page.

• Wednesday, 26 February, 3 p.m. EST: Legacy Family Tree Webinars is hosting the webinar presentation Shootout at the Rhododendron Lodge: Reconstructing Life-Changing Events. For more information and to register, see the webinar 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: January-February 2025,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 4 January 2025).