Coming up: March-April 2024
Upcoming presentations EEEK! The Legal Genealogist flat out forgot! February zipped to a close and March came in like a lion and... Yeah, there's a lot going on, and there's more coming up fast. And, as always, I want to invite you to come along, to the extent...
Overlooked gems
Institute courses that deserve another look Registration is already open for one of this year's summer institutes for genealogical education, and registration will open for another on Saturday. These two -- what The Legal Genealogist calls “summer camps for...
GAMECHANGER!!!
BIG news from FamilySearch at RootsTech FamilySearch today opened public access to an experimental search function that can search every word of text -- including every name -- even in handwritten documents that haven't been indexed by the hordes of volunteers who...
Get a GRIP for 2024
Registration opens Tuesday, February 20 So you didn’t make it to the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy in January. And you sat there the whole time watching people who share your interests learning new things and having fun… without you. And you’re starting to feel...
The unavailable SS-5
When we don't get what we asked for Reader Barbara Dottino had an unpleasant surprise when she asked the U.S. Social Security Administration for a copy of a relative's SS-5 form. She wanted a copy of the original application for a Social Security number. But that's...
Coming up: February-March 2024
Upcoming presentations Hard to believe January 2024 is already in the bag and February is here! The Legal Genealogist has already had a busy year and there's more -- much more -- coming up fast. And, as always, I want to invite you to come along, to the extent...
BIG win on USCIS fees
Final fee rule announced by USCIS Gentle people, we won. Pure and simple. The final rule adopting new fees for the genealogy program at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was published today and... We won. Starting April 1, 2024, the fees for some...
Ordering the SS-5: 2024 style
Higher fee, new SSA website So... you want a copy of that ancestor's application for a Social Security number, do you? You can get it. But it's going to cost you more than it used to, and there's a new web page that the Social Security Administration wants you to use...
Another Ancestry TOS update
Things that are, things that shouldn't be, maybe things to come So just four months after the last update to its terms and conditions, Ancestry yesterday released yet another set of amendments to the rules of its road. For the most part, there's nothing in the changes...
That silly scilicet
Unimportant legal lingo As many times as The Legal Genealogist has said we need to read every single solitary word in our legal documents, there's a simple truth that shouldn't be forgotten. It's not all important stuff. Some legal lingo is pure boilerplate. It's not...
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