Not whether, but how
The alarm is sounding An affidavit filed by an expert genetic genealogist in an Idaho murder case ought to have alarm bells ringing throughout the genealogical community. All of us — The Legal Genealogist included — want to use DNA as a tool in researching...The courage of their convictions
The Genealogy Guys take a stand George Morgan and Drew Smith are The Genealogy Guys — educators, writers, speakers, and producers of the popular podcast by the same name. They have long been counted among The Legal Genealogist’s friends. And never have I...Ancestry, this one’s on you
Show your corporate ethics, do the right thing The Legal Genealogist has run out of words. I could give you the list from the thesaurus: aghast, appalled, confounded, disgusted, dismayed, horror-struck, nauseated, repelled, repulsed, revolted, scandalized, shocked....The dos and don’ts of DNA
Which services do and don’t allow police access So the multi-day multi-session multi-national megaconference RootsTech drew to a close yesterday afternoon (US eastern time), leaving many of us panting with the sprint to the finish. The Legal Genealogist was...Reprise: TNSTAAFL
Genealogically speaking… The Legal Genealogist can usually get through 18 months to two years before the issue heats up to boiling again. But it’s boiling over in some online discussion groups so … once more into the breach… You know what the...Change at Find A Grave
Not perfect, but it’s a start Find A Grave yesterday announced a new system for the posting of memorials for the “recently deceased” (defined as anyone who has died within the past year) in an effort to give the families some greater opportunity than they have...About that reunion book…
Our duty to the living It’s family reunion season — apparently big time here in 2021, if The Legal Genealogist’s email is any indicator. We’ve all been locked down for 18 months now, those of us with functioning brain cells are fully vaccinated...DNA Day 2021
And a new law on forensic DNA Today, April 25, is National DNA Day here in the United States. It’s a day to celebrate “the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of DNA’s double helix in 1953,”1 credited to Cambridge...Now more than ever
A waiting period, please… It absolutely breaks The Legal Genealogist’s heart. Of all the aspects of this bitter pandemic, the one that hurts the most is the inability to properly grieve those we are losing. We cannot be with them at the end to hold their...Subscribe by Email
