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Welcome to 1929!

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

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!

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

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

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…

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...

Choosing number 40

Nominations due for National Genealogy Hall of Fame Thirty nine times, the genealogical community has honored one of our best, one that we’ve lost. Thirty nine times, the focus has been on someone who has made contributions to the field of genealogy that were of...

The best deal in genealogy

Legacy Family Tree Webinars sale ends tomorrow It’s one of the best deals in genealogy. A total of 2,312 webinars (as of this morning). From 449 speakers. With handouts covering 9,040 pages. Including — ahem — 40 from The Legal Genealogist, covering...

Coming up: December 2024-January 2025

Upcoming presentations It’s beginning to look a lot like … the end of the year. Yep, things are winding down a bit for 2024 here at The Legal Genealogist — and ramping up for 2025. So here’s a look at fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and...