USCIS proposes BIG fee hike
Genealogy fees to be drastically upped Here we go again. Sigh… Records access is once again on the financial chopping block. Just two years after the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shelved a plan to dramatically increase fees for a wide...A vote for Georgia, NOW!
Records access support needed It’s been a never-ending battle for genealogists, the fight for access to information needed for research. And the latest skirmish is being fought out in Georgia, right now. In the last legislative session, which ended in 2020, the...NYC historical vital records go online!
The announcement we never saw coming… It’s not for nothing that New York in general — and New York City in particular — is called the black hole of northern genealogy. From records loss on one side — can we say “New York Capitol Fire,”...NARA and 1950
Census info available In case there’s a genealogist in the United States who’s been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years — and The Legal Genealogist agrees that there may very well have been good reason to have been doing just that...Courting South Carolina
… with some help from a friend … Reader Frank T. Jones found himself deep in the weeds of South Carolina legal research — and lost in its labyrinthine 19th century court structure. In tracing part of his in-laws’ family, he was focusing on...About those SS-5s
How long does it take If there has been any silver lining whatsoever to the pandemic cloud these last 18 to 20 months, it’s been that a lot of government agencies, archives and other repositories have managed to get a lot more materials digitized and available...Digitization done
Access from home, welllllll… It’s a big milestone for FamilySearch. A milestone it describes in its announcement today as one “83 years in the making.”1 “Today,” the blog post continues, “FamilySearch International announced the completion of a massive...NARA invites comments
FY2022-26 Strategic Plan open for comments So… The Legal Genealogist just finished sitting in on the one-hour virtual Town Hall of the U.S. National Archives as its staff sought to explain and seek input on its strategic plan for the fiscal years 2022 through...Connecticut opens OBCs
Adoptees to get original birth certificates In just a few weeks, on 1 July 2021, adult adoptees born in Connecticut will have the unrestricted right to get what everyone else takes for granted. A new law, signed into law on 7 June by Governor Ned Lamont, will give all...Subscribe by Email
