Milestones 2025

by | Jan 6, 2025 | My family | 2 comments

Looking back to 2024, forward to 2025 There’s no doubt about it. The very best part of genealogy is the stories. Stories in The Legal Genealogist’s family take us back a long way in America on the maternal side and in Germany on the paternal side. Stories that...

Coming up: January-February 2025

by | Jan 4, 2025 | General | 1 comment

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...

Rules of my road: 2025

by | Jan 3, 2025 | General | 3 comments

Not legal advice! So many reader questions come in that are beyond what The Legal Genealogist can answer in this blog, because they’re asking for legal advice. Um… that’s not what this blog is all about. Not what this blog can do. It’s...

Welcome to 1929!

by | Jan 2, 2025 | Copyright | 0 comments

The copyright clock keeps ticking This is the second day of January and, for many Americans, the first work day of 2025. For The Legal Genealogist, it’s the second day of 1929. No, that’s not a typo. I really do mean 1929. The year that books like Ernest...

Happy New Year 2025

by | Jan 1, 2025 | General | 7 comments

Thirteen years and counting… Thirteen years ago today, on the first of January 2012, the very first post appeared here at The Legal Genealogist. It explained that: My purpose in writing The Legal Genealogist is, in part, to help folks understand the often arcane and...

Resolved and resolved 2024!

by | Dec 31, 2024 | General | 7 comments

A win in 2024, and on to 2025 It was just a year ago when The Legal Genealogist resolved to take that trip. To go to Germany in 2024 and walk in the footsteps of my German ancestors. It’s a trip that was supposed to have taken place a while back. I’d...

The Official TLG 2024 Thank You List

by | Dec 29, 2024 | General | 1 comment

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...

The returns of the 2024 season

by | Dec 27, 2024 | General | 3 comments

What to do with the returns cash Okay. Let’s all admit it. Come on. Say it out loud and get it over with. Here… The Legal Genealogist will go first: Not everything we got for a holiday gift was a hit. Yep, folks, that soap-on-a-rope just isn’t quite...

About those Holidays and Christmases…

by | Dec 23, 2024 | General | 2 comments

Getting into the spirit Where does a genealogist look for the holiday spirit — the Christmas spirit — in these last frantic days before we all rush off to try to make more family memories? How about … in genealogical records? Really. Okay, okay, so...