Upcoming presentations
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit.
Well, that’s what The Legal Genealogist is told we need to say on the first day of the month, right?
And here it is, the first of March already.
Which means it’s time to take stock of the fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and to invite you to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip. (Hey, you know you really want to come to RootsTech… and you really really want to come to Connections 2025, right?)
So… what’s coming up next?
March 2025
• Thursday-Saturday, 6-8 March: RootsTech 2025 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 6 March at 9:30 a.m. MT, it’s In That Case: Using Published Court Cases, and at 1:30 p.m. MT, a session that will also be live online, A Matter of Standards: DNA and the Genealogical Proof Standard. Then on 7 March, I’ll be presenting at 9:30 a.m. MT, The Ties that Bond, and at 3 p.m. MT, Twenty-eight Volumes of Gold: U.S. Territorial Papers. For more information and to register, see the RootsTech website page.
• Thursday-Saturday, 21-24 March: Connections 2025, the 17th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, is being hosted in Brisbane, Australia, under the guidance of the Genealogical Society of Queensland, the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations, and History Queensland Inc., at the Brisbane Technology Park Conference & Exhibition Centre. I’m one of a stellar lineup of international speakers, and will be presenting two featured talks — the keynote A Sentence of Transportation on Friday, 21 March, at 9:30 a.m., and The Robot Genealogist: Separating Fact from Fiction in AI-Assisted Research at noon on Saturday, 22 March — and two master classes: on Saturday, 22 March at 8 a.m., You Be The Judge: Ethics in Action, and on Sunday, 23 March at 8 a.m., Digging Deeper: Extracting Every Clue. For more information, see the conference website and to register, see the registration page.
• Friday-Saturday, 28-29 March: The North Carolina Genealogical Society is hosting its 2025 NCGS Virtual Conference. A wide variety of speakers will cover topics ranging from methodology to DNA and lots in-between. I’m up on Saturday, 29 March at 11:15 a.m. ET for the presentation From 1619 to Juneteenth – Slavery and the Law Before the Civil War. For more information, see the society’s annual conference page.
April 2025
• Thursday, 3 April, 7 p.m. EDT: The German Genealogy Group is hosting the members-only virtual presentation Making a Federal Case Out of It. For more information, see the society’s Meeting Schedule page — and for membership info, see the Member Benefits page.
• Saturday, 5 April: The Austin Colony Chapter, DAR is hosting an already-sold-out all-day session with four presentations: NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives; DNA and the Hidden Half of the Family; No Vitals? No Problem! – Building a Family through Circumstantial Evidence (A Family for Isabella); and When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Records.
• Saturday, 12 April, 11 a.m. CDT / noon EDT: The Clayton Library-Family History Research Center of the Houston Public Library is hosting the virtual presentation No Vitals? No Problem! – Building a Family through Circumstantial Evidence (Bringing Josias Home). For more information and to register, keep an eye on the Library’s Events page.
• Tuesday, 22 April, 7:15 p.m. MDT, 9:15 p.m. EDT: The Colorado Genealogical Society is hosting the virtual presentation Terms and Conditions May Apply. For more information, keep an eye on the Society’s Events page.
• Saturday, 26 April, 10:30 a.m. CDT, 11:30 a.m. EDT: The Irish Genealogical Society International is hosting the virtual presentation Mr. Blackstone’s Common Law. For more information, see the Society’s Events page.
And if that’s not enough, April 30 is opening day for the Ohio Genealogical Society’s 2025 Conference, Light Up Your Genealogy, in Sandusky, Ohio. So add in Wednesday, 30 April – Saturday, 3 May, when a whole host of top-flight speakers join attendees and exhibitors for what’s going to be a great conference. I’m kicking it off with the keynote, Thursday, 1 May at 8 a.m., After the Courthouse Burns: Rekindling Family History through DNA. I’ll also be presenting Picture This! Images We Can Freely Use; Artificial Tears: The Pains and Joys of AI for Genealogy; Follow the Money! Records of the Record Makers; Martha Benschura – Enemy Alien; “Deemed a Runaway” – Black Laws of the North; and Margaret’s Mother: Using DNA to Solve a Mystery. There’s a whole website with conference information.
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: March-April 2025,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/ : posted 1 Mar 2025).
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